Fourth quarter sales of desktop computers in the US fell by nearly -6% year-over-year according to the latest estimate from Gartner Inc. (NYSE: IT). US sales were weak for leading vendors Hewlett…
PC sales faltered last year in the US. Some of the drop has been blamed on a parts supply interruption from Thailand factories hit by floods. Industry research firm IDC said that…
Updated throughout the day Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) will offer a tablet PC by the end of the year (Reuters) Alibaba will reduce the size of a loan its was to use to…
Douglas A. McIntyre Dell’s (NASDAQ: DELL) habit of coming to market with products well after its competitors do continues. Reuters reports that the PC company will launch a tablet later this year. Dell management says…
Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) to launch its first tablet PC late this year. (Reuters) NYSE Euronext (NYSE: NYX) and Deutsche Boerse will try to save their merger with a case for EC regulators. (Reuters)…
Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: BRCD) is running higher on buyout speculation. The move is only about 18 months too late if it is even true. Reuters reported that Brocade has hired…
Many qualities separate the best-run and worst-run cities. But perhaps the most important is access to jobs. The economies of the best-run cities fall into two categories. They either have a booming…
Disk drive maker Western Digital Corp. (NYSE: WDC) said yesterday that production at one of its plants in Thailand has begun one week ahead of schedule. This development could spell bad news…
Most of America’s largest companies are also among its oldest companies. In fact, many of the Fortune 100 firms are more than a century old. Almost none were founded in the past…
It was just yesterday that demand for notebooks was shown to be higher in 2012 versus 2011 from DRAMeXchange, but now some new data is out from J.P. Morgan that may be…
There is some good news for Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL), Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT), Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL), and even the bruised Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ). TrendForce’s DRAMeXchange is forcasting that better…
Yields on what Spain had to pay for $4 billion in debt reached record levels. That is similar to what happened to paper issued recently by France and Italy. Rising yields are…
Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ) is set to report earnings after the close. As this is the first report with Meg Whitman on as CEO and with the shenanigans that took place around…
Among the hundreds of technology stocks, there are a relative handful of companies that stand out as bellwethers for the entire industry. Some are on the list for historical reasons; others are…
The markets opened lower this morning and not until mid-afternoon were equities able to put a mark above yesterday’s close. European stocks traded mixed all day, and that coupled with rising crude…
