ARM Holdings PLC (NASDAQ: ARMH) is bucking the Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) drag. With its processor sales strong for smartphones and tablets, the British company managed to beat earnings expectations with a…
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) is set to report earnings after the close on Tuesday. With a great sell-through in iPads but a weaker iPhone demand ahead of the upcoming iPhone 5, everyone…
Short-seller Jim Chanos is rather well-known for his alternative views, particularly betting against some very popular companies and growth or value stories. At the second Delivering Alpha conference (2012) this week, Chanos…
Michael Dell, CEO and founder of one of the world’s largest PC companies, expects that the Chinese market will remain hot, according to quotes attributed to him by Reuters. “We are bullish…
Douglas A. McIntyre A Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) report predicts a strong possibility the Federal Reserve will ease monetary policy by September. The most probable reason is that the economy will show evidence of a…
GlaxoSmithKline (NYSE: GSK) will take over Human Genome Sciences (NASDAQ: HGSI) for $2.8 billion. (Reuters) A poll from the National Association for Business Economics shows few companies plan to hire new workers. (Reuters)…
Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC) is due to report earnings next week and the trend of earnings has been nothing short of extremely disappointing from technology companies. We outlined all of the big…
Sales of PCs worldwide were flat in the second quarter, according to research firm Gartner. The two largest U.S. companies did much worse. And the trend is likely to continue since neither…
By now investors have had time to digest the notion that technology company sales and earnings are just not going to live up to prior expectations in most cases. Investors are learning that…
The display advertising industry, shaken by the falling prices it can get for its online ads, has taken to showing full-page marketing messages at websites. These blot out all of the content on website pages,…
Nothing kills a business quite so fast as when its most critical products become commodities. And the list of industries with this problem is growing. Even the price of homes has fallen victim…
Computer maker Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Quest Software Inc. (NASDAQ: QSFT) for $28/share in an all-cash deal valued at $2.4 billion.…
Paul Ausick As of late last week we had many potentially imminent buyouts that could have hit the market. When we were just finishing the report draft on Friday is when the Amylin Pharmaceuticals,…
Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) pays $60 million to settle a trademark dispute in China. (Reuters) Factory orders in both Japan and China fall in June. (Reuters) Barclays (NYSE: BCS) Chairman Marcus Agius quits…
The three major US stock indexes opened lower this morning and stayed in losing territory all day as investors first figured out that the two-day Eurozone summit meeting would very likely end…
