Google Frightens Japanese Government
The Japanese government is nervous about Google (GOOG). Trade officials in the country worry that, with their hardware advantage lost to companies in Korea, Taiwan, and China, it will also end up with no…
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Douglas A. McIntyre
Boeing’s China Fantasy: A Twenty Year Forecast
Boeing (BA) says it. There will always be a market for airplanes in China. Not matter what happens. Even it military hard liners move in. Even if the overheated economy collapse under its own…
Boston Scientific (BSX): The Stent Business Can’t Get More Confused
After reports last week that drug-coated stents posed little risk to heart patients, a new survey shows that "patients given drug-coated stents after an acute heart attack are nearly five times more likely to…
More Bad News For Linux: Redhat And Novell
It used to be that the corporate IT crowd could not get enough of Linux. It was inexpensive. It did not come from Microsoft. It was open-source and could be improved without permission from…
Palm Squashes Foleo… Will Its “One Focus” Affect The Microsoft Pact? (PALM, MSFT, RIMM, APPL)
Tonight I received an email from Palm (NASDAQ:PALM) regarding what was starting to look like the inevitable: that little web gadget, its Foleo, is not just delayed futher; it has been scrubbed. This was…
Mattel: Another Recall, Another Blow To Shareholders
Mattel (MAT) will announce another toy recall, this one involving 775,000 products which have too much lead paint. After heavy criticism from the Consumer Product Safety Commission for putting out information on defective products…
Yahoo! Buys BlueLithium To Strengthen Ad Presence, A Mistake
Yahoo! (YHOO) has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire BlueLithium, one of the largest and fastest growing online global ad networks that offers an array of direct response products and capabilities for advertisers…
Cramer’s New Caffeine Pick (PEET, SBUX)
Tonight, Jim Cramer compared Peet’s Coffee & Tea Inc. (NASDAQ:PEET) to Starbucks (NASDAQ:SBUX) as an obituary pick on CNBC’s MAD MONEY. It wasn’t praise or criticism, just reviewing a company after the founder had…
Cramer Interviews Mark Hurd, CEO of H-P (HPQ, MSFT, CSCO)
On tonight’s MAD MONEY on CNBC, Jim Cramer said again that tech is where you want to be going into Q4, and if you don’t yet have tech that Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HPQ) is the one…
Cramer’s 2007 Picks Vs. The Markets To-Date (AAPL, NYX, CSCO, HAL, GS, MO, SVNT, RAD, LVLT)
Some people love Jim Cramer, and some people just love to bash him. Some try to run percentage gains that he would be up or down at any given moment. Some revere him, and…
The 52-Week Low Club
Health Management Associates (HMA) Big borrowing for special dividend. Drops to $6.36 from 52-week high of $21.59. Opentv (OPTV) CEO leaves. Down to $1.23 from 52-week high of $3.15. Infospace (INSP) Has not recoved…
Who Is Connect-A-Jet? (CAJT)
There was an interesting new advertiser today that seems like one of the interesting story stocks. Just keep in mind this is OTC/Pink Sheet listed. Connect-a-Jet, or Connectajet.com, has begun a new ‘stock and…
Jim Cramer Ponders Which US Companies China Will Acquire
On today’s STOP TRADING segment on CNBC, Jim Cramer was discussing China’s desire to grow and acquire. He noted that with so many companies being some of the largest in the world that some…
How Large Will General Electric’s Oil & Gas Operations Become? (GE)
General Electric (NYSE:GE) is more than formidable and more than an enviable company. It has one of the few remaining pure "AAA" bond ratings, and it still thinks of itself and acts like a…
Toyota August Sales: No Silver Lining
Toyota (TM) US sales fell unexpectedly, down 2.8% to 233,471. Passenger car sales fell but light-truck sales rose 2% to 97,964 from 96,034 a year earlier. According to MarketWatch, Toyota blamed the dip on…
GM’s Big August Sales Win
GM (GM) August sales in the US rose 5.3% to 388,168. The company’s shares moved up well over 2% to $31.40 The company’s pick-up line did especially well. Douglas A. McIntyre
What To Expect Ahead of VMware’s VMWORLD Conference
Even if VMware (NYSE:VMW) sees its stock go sideways or even if it gets soft from here, it has a long way to go before many would be able to say this was not…
Ford’s Sales Worse Than Expected
Ford’s (F) US sales for August were worse than expected, dropping 14.4%. Ford said it sold 218,332 vehicles last month, down from 255,112 a year ago, with a 33.7% drop in car sales leading…
Ford’s Sales Worse Than Expected
Ford’s (F) US sales for August were worse than expected, dropping 14.4%. Ford said it sold 218,332 vehicles last month, down from 255,112 a year ago, with a 33.7% drop in car sales leading…
Tales From The Bulletin Boards (BFNH, AMNT, OJSY, WYDY) (Sept. 4, 2007)
If you spend a few minutes going through the headlines of OTC-BB and Pink Sheet listed stocks, it becomes evident that investors in that space are on their own. But sometimes there are a…