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Consumer Electronics
Sony’s New Tablet, Stringer’s Latest Failure
It has been said and written a hundred times: Sir Howard Stringer is the wrong person to be CEO of Sony (NYSE: SNE). It is possible that no CEO could save Sony…
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Consumer Electronics
Sony Walks Into The Tablet PC Market… Too Late or Too Expensive? (HPQ, AAPL, AMZN, SNE, GOOG, NVDA)
So what if Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ) cannot keep its tablet PC efforts straight. The raw success of the iPad from Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) is emboldening new tablet competition just at…
6:20am ET
Investing
The Myth of Barnes & Noble’s Success
The market was positively excited by the quarterly earnings of Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS). That is odd. The bookseller lost money, and its e-reader and e-book business are still being routed…
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Consumer Electronics
Amazon Tablet May Sell Five Million Units in Q4
Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) is likely to succeed where Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ), Dell (NASDAQ: DELL), Research In Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) and several other PC and consumer electronics companies have failed. Its new Google…
6:22am ET
Investing
Media Digest (8/30/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg
Foreign oil companies may have to give up natural gas rights in Iraq. (Reuters) Several large pharma firms are in the early stages of an attempt to find new and more effective…
8:20am ET
Investing
Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (AMZN, ADSK, ASTE, BIDU, BLK, CIM, MRGE, PBY, RHI, RY, SKS, UTI, Z)
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Monday morning. Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) Maintained Buy with $255 target at BofA/ML.…
4:22pm ET
Investing
The Most Innovative CEOs In America
Steve Jobs’s transition from CEO of Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) to chairman has caused a great deal of ink to be spilt on the departure of other famous CEOs, such as Walt Disney,…
9:20am ET
Media
Pandora Grabs Ears, Makes Money (P, SIRI, AAPL, AMZN, GOOG, RIMM)
courtesy of Pandora MediaInternet radio company Pandora Media Inc. (NYSE: P) reported that listeners spent 1.8 billion hours tuned in last quarter, an increase of 125% from the same period a year…
6:24am ET
Retail
America’s Biggest Store Chains With No Online Shoppers
Online sales success has become critical to major retailers. All evidence shows that e-commerce continues to grow at double-digit annual rates while in-store sales in the U.S. have barely grown at all…
3:00pm ET
Investing
How Much Is Hulu Really Worth? (CMCSA, NWS-A, DIS, AMZN, DTV, GOOG, YHOO, SKM, NFLX)
The bidding process for the online television service Hulu has taken a strange path. The bidding has been delayed to the end of this week. It sure seems as though there is…
6:15am ET
Media
Media Digest (8/25/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes
Steve Jobs resigns as CEO of Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) and will be chairman. Tim Cook to take over as CEO. (Reuters) Gold falls sharply and may be hurt by CME (NASDAQ: CME)…
9:45am ET
Media
Online Music Loses Court Fight, Wins Anyway (GOOG, AMZN, AAPL, SIRI, P, TWX, SNE)
A federal judge has ruled that music locker service MP3tunes has, in fact, infringed on the copyrights owned by music companies by allowing users to use a program to locate music on…
6:33am ET
Investing
Nine Companies That Destroyed Their Largest Competitors
Most companies want to be number one in their markets. Once there, however, they have trouble keeping the top spot for long. They are flanked by smaller, nimbler companies that have better…
6:30am ET
Retail
Walmart Keeps Huge Online Advantage
Walmart’s (NYSE: WMT) domestic sales may have stumbled, but its online presence is still dominant. July Comscore figures show that Walmart’s sites had 38.7 million unique visitors. That is nowhere close to…
8:24pm ET
Retail
JC Penney: Ackman’s Mistake
William Ackman’s Pershing Square Capital Management has dumped more money into J.C. Penney. It is a mistake, unless he has some undisclosed plan to mine assets which are not obvious or break…