EU leaders set a tentative plan to recapitalize troubled banks directly with funds meant to be loaned for sovereign bailouts. (Reuters) Stockton, Calif., files for bankruptcy. (Reuters) Research In Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM)…
If Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) is fortunate, its new Nexus 7 tablet will be like a Chrysler automobile. The device is up against Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), with its General Motors (NYSE: GM) type…
Angela Merkel goes into today’s EU summit at odds with other leaders about regionwide bonds and austerity. (Reuters) Barclays (NYSE: BCS) pays $453 million to settle a probe on Libor trading. (Reuters)…
Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) is nothing if not determined to slice off a share of Apple Inc.’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) dominance of the market for personal media. At the company’s I/O developer’s conference…
Stockton, Calif., is about to file Chapter 9 bankruptcy. (Reuters) Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) wins a court decision to stop shipments of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet into the United States. (Reuters)…
Internet research firm comScore Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR) today released its rankings of the top web properties for the month of May. The top 5 of the 50 sites ranked by unique visitors…
Each year, 24/7 Wall St. identifies 10 important American brands that we predict will disappear within a year. This year’s list reflects the brutally competitive nature of certain industries and the reason…
This report is updated throughout the day if rumors arise on the 24/7 Wall St. Wire. Rumor has it that Samsung’s next version of Galaxy will be larger in its fight to…
The G20 meeting ended with a pledge to support the ongoing integrity of the euro, as well as promises to create plans to bring down the borrowing costs of the region’s weakest…
courtesy Barnes & Noble Inc.Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) has two main partners to help it enter the mobile world. One is Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS), which sells the tabletlike e-reader Nook. The…
Speculation continues about what the success or failure the Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) Surface tablet will be. One of the observations about the machine is that Microsoft kept its development secret from all…
Huge South Korean electronics company LG Electronics will abandon its tablet PC effort, according to Bloomberg. LG is among the five largest cellphone makers in the world. It should have the ability…
courtesy Barnes & Noble Inc.At a hastily arranged event scheduled for today at 3:30 p.m. Pacific Time, Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) is expected to announce a new tablet device to be built…
Spain’s bond yields quickly rose above 7% today for 10-year sovereign paper. Greece’s acceptance of austerity measures, based on results of the elections, provided no confidence that Spain — in its second recession…
Rumors are that Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) will release a tablet PC today. It will run a version of Windows Mobile designed to operate on ARM architecture. Most analysts of the tablet market…
