Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) is implementing four new interoperability principles and corresponding actions across its high-volume business products: ensuring open connections; promoting data portability; enhancing support for industry standards; fostering more open engagement with customers…
The WSJ has reported that Intel Corp. (NASDAQ: INTC) is completing a new processor called Diamondville that is for computers of $250 and under. The size of this processor is tiny at a whopping…
Teva Pharmaceutical (NASDAQ: TEVA – News) has some pretty loft goals for itself at its Investor Day presentation. If you trust the company’s history and its pipeline of candidates under trials and under pending…
If there is one public oil and energy sage that the markets like to listen to, you need to look no further than T. Boone Pickens. He’s been a bull all the way up. …
TheStreet.com (NASDAQ: TSCM) has just posted earnings at $0.17 pro forma EPS on a 38% jump in revenues to a record $19.9 million. First Call had estimates at $0.16 on $19.95 million in revenues.…
If the Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) Xbox 360 will stop overheating, the company believes that it can double the number of Xbox Live users. The Live product has 10 million users now who spend $50…
Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) says that its sales to PC makers in Taiwan are running up and should rise about 10% this year. Manufacturers in Taiwan make about 60% of PCs sold around the world…
Blue Coat Systems (NASDAQ: BCSI) is seeing shares surge in early pre-market trading after its earnings release. The data monitoring company posted earnings of $0.38 non-GAAP EPS on a 73% revenue jump to $81.4…
Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) is launching a new program to put ads at third party sites which have video content. The program will work much like its Adsense text product. The display ads and video…
Research in Motion NASDAQ: RIMM) has raised its subscriber forecasts this morning. The maker of Blackberry now expects its net subscriber additions for its fourth quarter to be approximately 15% to 20% higher than…
These are the early bird analyst calls we are focusing on this Thursday morning at 247WallSt.com: Agnico-Eagle Mines Ltd. (NYSE: AEM) cut to Neutral at UBS. Allscripts (NASDAQ: MDRX) raised to Buy from Neutral…
In one of those odd time warps in history inflation and a stagnant economy are coming together. Inflation is growing primarily because of the high price of oil and grain. The GDP is barely…
Industry-wide price wars are like the old Western range wars. They don’t happen often but when they do they are violent and have sudden onsets. A new home-phone program from T-Mobile is about to…
According to Reuters, Societe Generale filed its financial information and confirmed its huge trading loss. Reuters writes that the sale of 3Com (COMS) has come apart because a piece of the company would be…
Markets in Asia were mostly higher. The Nikkei rose 2.8% to 13,688. Canon (CAJ) was up 3.3% to 4990. Nomura was up 3.7% to 1713. The Hang Seng rose .1% to 23,623. China Mobile…
Standard & Poors is making some key changes to its S&P Small Cap 600 Index. The following additions and deletions will take after the close of trading on Monday, February 25, 2008: Old National…
Marvell Technology Group Ltd. (NASDAQ: MRVL) was the subject of a lot of buzz today. There wasn’t any news out on it, but there were enough options that traded today that would account for…
Capstone Turbine Corp. (NASDAQ: CPST) keeps on delivering new orders. Now that the company is at the revenue stage, it keeps winning orders. After today’s close, the company announced that it has received an…
Verizon (VZ) bottomed at $33.30 after downgrades due to cellular service price wars. HCC Insurance (HCC) Weak quarterly results. Trades down to $24.25 from 52-week high of $24.45. AT&T (T) drops to $32.95 from…
Today we’ll get to see earnings out both Sina Corp. (NASDAQ: SINA) and Netease.com Inc. (NASDAQ: NTES). Sina Corp. (NASDAQ: SINA) estimates for the Chinese online media company from First Call are $0.33 EPS…