ThinkstockOPNET Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ: OPNT) shares are finally getting the chance to react to the big news that the company is being acquired by Riverbed Technology Inc. (NASDAQ: RVBD). Riverbed is looking to see if…
ThinkstockBaidu Inc. (NASDAQ: BIDU) reported its earnings on Monday night. The leader of Chinese Internet search is showing that competition is now gaining from Qihoo 360 Technology Co. Ltd. (NYSE: QIHU), and it telegraphed…
courtesy of FordFord Motor Co. (NYSE: F) reported its third-quarter earnings on Tuesday while the markets were closed. The auto giant beat earnings expectations but this quarter was saved by North American business. Ford…
courtesy of AppleApple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) shares are finally getting to react to the news of Tim Cook’s management reshuffling. The changes were serious, but Steve Jobs also had a policy of accountability and…
courtesy of IBMInternational Business Machines Corp. (NYSE: IBM) has been closed for trading for the past two days, just like the rest of the stocks. On Tuesday the IT and hardware giant declared a…
Courtesy of 20th Century FoxThe Star Wars franchise is back! The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS) is acquiring Lucasfilm Ltd. from George Lucas. The deal is a cash and stock transaction valued at a…
DaVita Inc. (NYSE: DVA) has been running very well and it was no mystery as to why Warren Buffett’s new portfolio managers have continued accumulating shares on behalf of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A).…
ThinkstockThe NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: NDAQ) has just released that The NASDAQ Stock Market and other NASDAQ OMX-owned U.S. exchanges and markets and the FINRA/NASDAQ Trade Reporting Facility will be open for business on…
courtesy of EMCEMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) is about to make sure that internet session intelligence and behavioral analysis becomes about as big as virtualization. That may seem like a hard claim to believe, but…
courtesy of IBMInternational Business Machines Corporation (NYSE: IBM) has spent billion and billions of dollars already to repurchase shares of its common stock and to pay dividends. More news is out on that front…
The preliminary estimates for the damage of Hurricane Sandy seem to be coming in the $5 billion to $10 billion range. This of course can grow, but this is what we have seen so far.…
courtesy of Apple Inc.Tim Cook is making some serious changes at Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL). The moves might seem harsh, but Steve Jobs had a policy of accountability and ownership of failure. The markets…
thinkstockThe appears to be yet even more room for stimulative and easing measures. That is at least what Credit Suisse Group (NYSE: CS) is implying, based on its global inflation outlook released on Tuesday.…
Jon OggThe top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen in Wall St. research calls are very thin this Tuesday as this is the second day that U.S. markets are closed today due to exchange…
ThinkstockUnited States Steel Corp. (NYSE: X) has reported its third-quarter results and its income from operations came to $171 million. Net income was $44 million, or $0.28 per share, but that is said to…
Jon OggMore global quantitative easing is happening. Unfortunately, it is coming on a day when the U.S. markets are closed so the news may fall on deaf ears in America. Elsewhere the reaction was…
thinkstockEuropeans are, as you might have assumed, far from confident. The latest eurozone consumer and business confidence reading posted another fall in October. To make matters worse, the core economies continued to show a…
courtesy of Ford Motor CompanyFord Motor Co. (NYSE: F) is showing that the car business can be profitable, even if its guidance in recent weeks has only allowed its shares to tread water. The…
Tumi Holdings Inc. (NYSE: TUMI) may have reported a tenfold rise in net income and it may have raised its full-year guidance. The problem is that the company submitted a filing with the Securities and…
Baidu Inc. (NASDAQ: BIDU) reported its earnings on Monday evening. The leader in Chinese Internet search’s third-quarter earnings came in with a 49% revenue gain to RMB6.251 billion (about $994.6 million), and operating profit…