Twitter has, by most estimates, 225 million members, which makes it one of the largest social networks in the world. All major media companies are on Twitter and some have more than one million…
Updated throughout the day. Premium content service Hulu is for sale (NYT, WSJ, AP) Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) will launch a faster iPhone this September (Bloomberg) Altria (NYSE: MO) and Philip Morris (NYSE: PM) could…
Google’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) YouTube may be a near-perfect owner of Hulu. Several news organizations have reported that premium video website Hulu may be for sale. It has struggled to make a profit. It runs…
AMRBoeing (NYSE: BA) will be the big loser at the Paris Air Show if announcements made so far by rivals and industry suppliers are any indication. It is also telling that shares in the…
People are driving less even though the price of oil is well below $100 and the average price of regular gas, which many expected would hit $5, is now under $3.85. The AAA says…
Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou won a vote of confidence in his nation’s parliament, but his party has only a handful of representatives to give it a majority. That does not matter for now.…
The head of PIMCO expects that Greece and other EU nations will default. (Reuters) The LulzSec group of hackers claims it will expand its attacks on private and government networks. (Reuters) The Greek government…
Nokia24/7 Wall St. has created a new list of brands that will disappear, which includes Sears (NASDAQ:SHLD), Sony Pictures (NYSE:SNE), American Apparel (NYSE:APP), Nokia (NYSE:NOK), Saab, A&W All-American Foods Restaurants, Soap Opera Digest, Sony…
Ever since the iron ore miners forced customers to accept quarterly price changes, the price for seaborne iron ore has more than doubled. China, the largest consumer of iron ore, resisted for a while…
Economists and investors have enough to worry about in Europe. Greece is in a state of collapse. There are concerns that Portugal and Ireland could follow. Add Spain to the list of nations that…
Updated throughout the day. French aerospace firm Safran will pay 4 billion euros for Italian company Avio. (La Lettre de L’Expansion) Airbus may increase production A320 due to strong demand (WSJ) Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT)…
Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Tuesday morning. We are tracking news and moves in shares of Research In Motion Limited (NASDAQ: RIMM), Express Scripts, Inc. (NASDAQ: ESRX), Prospect Capital Corporation…
One of the major stories in the Washington press this mornings is not about the deficit, the Presidential race, or members of Congress who have resigned because of indiscretions. Sears Holdings (NASDAQ: SHLD) may…
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) will launch its new N9 Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) Windows-powered smartphone later this year. It does so as the entire industry faces slowing sales and a dizzying number of new products and…
The IMF says it will not support future payments to Greece unless the government shows it has the will to pass more austerity measures. Eurozone finance ministers have already delayed a $17 billion payment.…
It may be hard to find a job when jobs are so hard to find. A new Gallup poll reports that “Americans’ assessments of the job market have soured in June after showing modest…
Fitch said a voluntary roll-over of Greece sovereign debt would be viewed as a default. (Reuters) This week is critical to US budget talks as an August 2 deadline looms. (Reuters) Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT)…
It could be that Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) has not released a major product in a quarter. The consumer public and Wall St. are used to a new iPhone, iPad, or completely new device every…
Twitter has, by most estimates, 225 million members, which makes it one of the largest social networks in the world. All major media companies are on Twitter and some have more than one million…
Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Thursday morning. We are tracking news and moves in shares of Harbin Electric (NASDAQ: HRBN), Level 3 Communications (NASDAQ: LVLT), and Vitacost.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: VITC).…