Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) was getting criticized for its super-premium buyout of 3PAR, Inc. (NYSE: PAR). That criticism may have been overstated. Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE: HPQ) has just trumped Dell with a…
Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) can afford to buy GM. The No. 1 US auto firm makes a fair amount of money, has nearly 20% of the American car market, and is the largest…
The market did not like Dell’s earnings and sold the shares down 3% after hours to $11.70. The performance give the Dell board of directors yet another reason to fire CEO Michael…
Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) and Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE: HPQ) are both slated to report earnings today right after the close. Poor economic data followed by a poor market response has expectations for…
Mark Hurd’s exit from Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) was based on his bad judgment, bad manners, or bad behavior. None make him any less of a highly skilled technology CEO, perhaps the best…
Twitter has, by most estimates, 100 million members, which makes it one of the largest social networks in the world. All major media companies are on Twitter and some have more than…
The Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) board of directors must have adopted the philosophy that firing Michael Dell will not bring back the tens of billions of dollars that the company’s market cap has…
Douglas A. McIntyre Reuters: BHP Billiton (NYSE: BHP) has begun an attempt at a hostile deal for Potash (NYSE: POT) Reuters: A female contractor of Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) said she lost work because she would…
Twitter has, by most estimates, 100 million members, which makes it one of the largest social networks in the world. All major media companies are on Twitter and some have more than…
Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) is not going to be able to buy its way out of trouble. The company and Michael Dell recently settled government charges which have damaged the founder’s credibility as…
These days, chief information officers at Fortune 500 companies are spending a lot of their time saying “no.” The good ones are masters at it. They have to turn down pleas from…
Earnings season isn’t quite over yet. We still have some rather large, some giant, earnings on deck next week. We have an earnings duel between The Lowe’s Companies (NYSE: LOW) and The…
Reuters: The GM CEO will leave as the company has its IPO. ‘Reuters: Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) sued Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) over Android. Reuters: Germany raised its forecast for the second half…
Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) was ambushed by Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL) when Jobs & Co. launched the iPad. It was close enough in price to the Amazon Kindle and had more features. Amazon…
Dell Computer (NASDAQ: DELL) has been a troubled company ever since founder Michael Dell returned as CEO. The company has fallen behind rivals in PC and server sales. Other large tech firms…
