Tech spending, fueled by the growth of cloud computing and the economic recovery, is expected to rise 5.7 percent to $1.6 trillion, according to market researcher IDC. That’s an improvement over the…
Douglas A. McIntyre Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) is the largest e-commerce business in the world by almost any measure. The company has a market valuation of more than $80 billion, which makes it one of the…
Douglas A. McIntyre Reuters: Obama’s deal with Congress will extend Bush tax cuts for two years. Reuters: The US will sell its remaining shares in Citigroup (NYSE: C) and will make a $12 billion profit.…
These are some of this Monday’s key analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls. Abercrombie & Fitch Co. (NYSE: ANF) Added to Goldman Sachs Conviction Buy List. Air…
Analysis of Spending Growth Among Top 25 Online Retail Sites Nov. 1-29, 2010 vs. Corresponding Days in 2009 Total U.S. – Home/Work/University Locations Source: comScore, Inc. Spending Growth Dollar Share 2009 2010…
What’s driving holiday sales at Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT)? We took a look at some of the best sellers at Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) yesterday, and thought it would be interesting…
Movie studios hope for, plan for, and pray for that blockbuster film that will pay everyone’s bonuses for the year. For retailers, a blockbuster like, say, the Cabbage Patch dolls, are both…
Bank of America Corporation (NYSE: BAC) dismissed speculation, per CNN, that it is the big U.S. bank that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange told Forbes magazine will be the website’s next target. OK!…
Reuters: ECB executives sought to calm capital markets and assure them that the Ireland bailout should stabilize the euro. Reuters: Online bargain hunting has spread beyond CyberMonday. Reuters: Members of the President’s…
Short sellers have started to come back into some select names again. While we often look for patterns, it is some of of these high-priced stocks that often offer the most insight. …
Insider selling by millionaire and billionaire corporate insiders is already rising, but it is about to go through the roof. Forget the politics and forget the morale left behind as a result,…
Being Blockbuster must be just awful now. We picked this as one of several key brands which would disappear, and it has already met our criteria for disappearing because it filed for…
Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) will not admit publicly that its DVD-via-mail business is dying. But, its announcement today that it will offer an “internet only” product is a powerful hint that the company…
via Wikimedia CommonsAmazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) is hoping to take the guesswork out of making hit movies. According to the Wall Street Journal, the world’s largest Internet retailer is setting up a…
The new Microsoft (NASADQ: MSFT) Kinect, which has already sold 1 million units, and updated versions of products from Sony (NYSE: SNE), and Nintendo had all better sell well in November and…
