Reuters: Sony (SNE) and Microsoft (MSFT) are battling to control home entertainment but consumers are slow to adopt their technologies. Reuters: The “clunkers” program will end on August 24. Reuters: GM is…
The partnerships between handset companies and cellular carriers in the US are too good to be true. The FCC has discovered that and the wireless industry may never be the same again.…
These are this Tuesday’s top day trader and active stock alerts. We have more detailed data on volume and price analysis with links through to VSInvestor.com on each stock: PetSmart Inc. (NASDAQ:…
Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) has scored a significant upgrade in both name and in quality. The king of search has been raised to Goldman Sachs’ Conviction Buy List. The target was raised…
Douglas A. McIntyre Reuters: UBS (UBS) shares may fall when the Swiss government sells out. Reuters: The US deficit estimate was trimmed to $1.59 trillion. Reuters: A homeowner sued Wells Fargo (WFC) over a credit…
Garmin Ltd. (NASDAQ: GRMN) may still be the leader in its space in the U.S., but the company has become very ‘yesteryear’ for investors. The company recently performed much ‘less-worse’ than expectations…
Two years ago, GPS products cost more than $1,000. Car companies charged as much as $2,500 for the systems. Tom Tom and Garmin (GRMN) stocks hit remarkably high levels on demand for…
Reuters: Wal-Mart (WMT) will report results with Wall St. looking for sales growth. Reuters: US home foreclosures set a record in July. Reuters: Citigroup (C) hired outsiders to help with a management…
Several companies run annual brand valuations. It is a good business for advertising and marketing firms to be viewed as experts on brands. Brand values are based on the cash flow they…
The Twitter outage introduces the concept of whether anyone would really miss the service if it went away. Financial experts have argued that Twitter is not worth much even with its 30…
Apple’s (AAPL) market cap is now$148 billion. Google’s (GOOG) is only $143 billion. The disparity between the two numbers does not make sense. Google has been the faster-growing company, at least historically.…
Twitter had another hacker attack yesterday. Several media outlets reported that the micro-blogging system was down periodically though the early morning and afternoon. The service had more severe problems last week. There…
New data from Millward Brown, the brand evaluation firm, shows that Google (GOOG) is the world’s most valuable brand with a valuation of just over $100 billion. That is well above the…
Reuters: A bubble may be forming in the corporate bond market. Reuters: Wall St. firms have made $1 billion on the break up of AIG (AIG). Morgan Stanley(MS), Goldman Sachs (GS), JP…
Yahoo! (YHOO) filed an 8K with the SEC with details of its search engine agreement with Microsoft (MSFT). Several of the provisions of the contract are better than investors may have expected.
