RealNetworks (RNWK) today announced that for the third quarter of 2007, revenue grew 55% to $145.1 million compared to $93.7 million for the third quarter of 2006. Technology Products and Solutions revenue of $53.3…
Shutterfly (SFLY) announced that its total revenues were $32.6 million, an increase of 54% over the third quarter 2006. The online photo site had a GAAP net loss per share was ($0.14), as compared…
Wednesday is much more than Halloween and it is more than the FOMC announcement date. We have an event that has been perhaps more influential to many key stocks than the upcoming announcement on…
Goldman Sachs may not be reversing its entire bullish stance on oil after oil traded over $93.00 per barrel on Monday, but it is recommending some old fashioned profit taking. Goldman Sachs noted specifically…
Starbucks (SBUX) broke below $25 today, not too far from its 52-week low. Less than a year ago, the shares traded over $40. The last significant analyst call on the company was a Banc…
RealNetworks Inc. (NASDAQ:RNWK) is set to report earnings after today’s close. First Call has estimates at -$0.01 EPS on revenues of $143.4 million, but there are some estimates with a break-even to even a…
There is a new ETF trading on the NYSE today. The WisdomTree Emerging Markets SmallCap Dividend Fund listed on NYSE Arca under the ticker symbol DGS, and it has begun trading. This ETF was…
Since every other company in the world from NBC to Wal-Mart (WMT) to Amazon (AMZN) is in the video distribution, why not Best Buy (BBY)? Why not, indeed. Today the company launched Best Buy…
Consumers International give out annual prizes for the world’s worst products. Perhaps someone from Coca-Cola (KO) showed up a the award dinner to collect its prize. According to the AFP news agency, one award…
LucasArts and BioWare Corp. today announced that they have entered into an agreement to create an interactive entertainment product. Normally we wouldn’t cover this because both are private companies. But BioWare is in the…
Merrill Lynch (NYSE:MER) has finally announced a part of the inevitable. Stan O’Neal is retiring effective immediately, which we all know is a mutual resignation and firing after the worst brokerage quarter out there. …
Qwest Communications (NYSE:Q) has posted earnings at $1.08 EPS diluted and $1.15 basic EPS on revenues of $3.434 Billion. While the earnings number sounds huge for an $8.00 stock, this earnings number is not…
Apple (AAPL) today announced that it sold (or delivered in the case of maintenance agreements) over two million copies of Mac OS X Leopard since its release on Friday, far outpacing the first-weekend sales…
Smith & Wesson (SWHC) angered the earnings gods and its shares are down 25% before the open to $15. The gun company forecast second-quarter results below Wall Street’s view, hurt by lower demand for…
(ADP) Automatic Data $0.45 EPS vs $0.43 est.(BEAV) BE Aerospace $0.48 EPS vs $0.41 est.; stock indicated up $1.00 pre-market.(CL) Colgate Polmolive $0.86 EPS vs. $0.85 est.(COCO) Corinthian Colleges $0.05 EPS vs $0.05 est.(CRDN)…
Premier Exhibitions Inc. (NASDAQ:PRXI) has issued a press release with a move for a salvage award for its Titanic recovery efforts via its wholly owned subsidiary RMS Titanic. This motion is in the United…
Distressed debt investor TCW Group and hedge-fund firm Marathon Asset Management have begun looking at buying assets in the mortgage market. But, they have not moved in yet, as far as anyone can tell.…
ACTU raised to Outperform at JMP Securities.ATHN started as Neutral at Goldman Sachs.AYI raised to Outperform at Baird.DVW cut to Hold at Jefferies.FORM raised to Buy at Citigroup.GM raised to Buy at UBS.HEP started…
The number of Global Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) dropped by 22% in the third quarter compared with the second quarter of 2007, according to the quarterly Global IPO Report from Ernst & Young. Globally,…
Analysts expected Sirius’s (SIRI) revenue to hit $244 million, which would be a 46% improvement over the same quarter last year. EPS expectations are for a loss of $.08 compared to a $.12 loss…