Courtesy BlackBerryBlackBerry Limited (NASDAQ: BBRY) remains in trouble and perhaps its only true exit or recovery strategy is the hope of an acquirer wanting to take this company private. Now the company…
Microsoft Sweden, via Wikimedia CommonsMicrosoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) announced Tuesday morning that it would raise its quarterly dividend by $0.05 to $0.28, a boost of 22%, and that the company’s board had…
Courtesy Research in Motion Ltd.Smartphone maker BlackBerry Ltd. (NASDAQ: BBRY) fired an unspecified number of its U.S. sales staff on Monday, according to The Wall Street Journal’s Digits blog. The move follows…
Paul Ausick ThinkstockOne of the main reasons that the ultra rich have become so enamored with the hedge fund industry over the years is their “go anywhere, do anything” approach to investing. Hedge funds…
ThinkstockSo far, no one outside the United States has built a global social network, created an operating system adopted at an astonishing rate by smartphone and tablet manufacturers, created the best search…
courtesy of Apple Inc.For the three months ending in July 2013, Samsung Electronics closed the market share gap slightly between itself and Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) in the U.S. smartphone market. Compared…
ThinkstockWhat generally happens when industries have only regional providers or merely a whole slew of competitors? Usually it boils down to mergers for size and scale, then outright acquisitions to eliminate competition.…
Courtesy ZTE Corp.The worldwide market for mobile phones is expected to grow by 7.3% in 2013, and global shipments of smartphones is expected to pass the 1 billion unit mark in a…
courtesy of XiaomiLittle-known Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi has just scored a major coup. The sixth largest smartphone maker has just announced that it has hired Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) Android vice president…
ThinkstockA look at the charts this morning shows that BlackBerry Ltd. (NASDAQ: BBRY) has a market cap of just under $6 billion. A privately held smartphone maker just received an investment that values…
Courtesy Research in Motion Ltd.Just last month, BlackBerry Ltd. (NASDAQ: BBRY) reportedly cut production of its Z10 and Q10 smartphones from a monthly total of 2 million to 1 million after sales…
Paul Ausick courtesy of SamsungAccording to several press sources, Samsung will introduce the equivalent of a smartwatch that can surf the Web, make phone calls and even tell time. At first, the news would…
courtesy of SamsungGlobal mobile phone sales totaled 435 million units in the second quarter of 2013, and of that total, some 225 million units, or 51.8%, were smartphones. That is the first…
Courtesy BlackBerrySome company is supposed to buy BlackBerry Ltd. (NASDAQ: BBRY), or at least that is what its board appears to believe. The way the smartphone corporation’s stock trades tells otherwise. After…
August 13, 2013: U.S. equity markets opened slightly higher this morning following a report on retail sales from the Census Bureau that was stronger than expected. Stocks turned south quickly though, as…
