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Nintendo Falls Apart
Nintendo has found out what it is like to be Sony (NYSE: SNE). The powerful Japanese inventor of the Wii now finds the sales of its console in free fall much as…
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Apps & Software
Microsoft Goes Cheapo on Earnings Releases (MSFT)
Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) is expected to report earnings on Thursday after the close. We had already questioned the company’s ability to reconcile its books because it seems that the earnings release…
Jon C. Ogg 5:01pm ET
Media
Google’s Local Search Takes On More Companies (GOOG, SPMD, LOCM, T, MSFT, YHOO, AOL)
Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) may have just accidentally become more like the Yellow Pages in a new local search effort. Google is set to launch Places, which gives more information online about…
6:05am ET
Investing
Short Sellers Flee Telecom And Financial Stocks (VZ, T, MOT, S, MSFT)
Bank stocks will rebound and telecom shares will rise. That is, at least, the prevailing opinion among short sellers as of October 15. Telecom and telecom equipment shares will benefit from an…
4:48am ET
Investing
US Companies Have $1 Trillion, But Won’t Spend It, At Least Not On Jobs
Moody’s reports that US corporations have amassed $1 trillion in cash. The document, entitled “U.S. Corporate Cash Hoard Near $1 Trillion, But Unlikely To Be Used for Expansion” explains that these firms…
1:10pm ET
Consumer Electronics
An Apple A Day… (AAPL, MSFT, SNE, GOOG)
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) has maintained its solid go-to reputation despite its most recent earnings concerns that margins were continuing to compress. We wanted to take a look at the key Apple…
5:00am ET
Investing
An Apple Buyout Of Sony?
Sony (NYSE: SNE) shares have moved up recently on rumors that the company might be bought by Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL). Apple could easily afford the deal. It has over $50 billion…
4:06am ET
Media
Media Digest (10/26/2010) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg
Reuters: American International Group (NYSE: AIG) CEO Benmosche has cancer. (Reuters) Ford Motor (NYSE: F) may post record profits. (Reuters) William Dudley of the New York Fed said the central bank could…
2:54pm ET
Investing
This Week’s Top Earnings Reports & Previews (DD, X, CMCSA, COP, PG, MMM, DOW, XOM, POT, FSLR, MSFT, CVX, MRK)
Earnings season is in full swing and is peaking this week in the frequency of market moving and sector moving companies reporting quarterly results. There are several DJIA components reporting earnings along…
11:09am ET
Apps & Software
Microsoft Taking Longer To Reconcile Quarterly Earnings? (MSFT)
Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) is on deck to report earnings Thursday, October 28, 2010 after the close. Microsoft used to be report at least in the middle of the pack of tech…
Jon C. Ogg 8:11am ET
Investing
Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (ALTR, ANSS, APSG, ATHN, BIDU, C, HIG, HD, JBLU, MSFT, PFG, LUV, WIT, XLNX)
These are some of this Monday’s key analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls. Altera Corp. (NASDAQ: ALTR) Started as Hold at Deutsche Bank. Ansys Inc. (NASDAQ: ANSS)…
12:56pm ET
Investing
Next Week’s Must See Earnings (AMGN, CIT, DD, X, CMCSA, COP, PG, MMM, DOW, XOM, POT, FSLR, MSFT, CVX, MRK)
Earnings season is in full swing and the peak will occur next week. We have several DJIA components reporting earnings along with several other companies which are equally as important to the…
5:54am ET
Consumer Electronics
A Tablet PC From HP, A Gamble On Windows
Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) has begun to show its new Slate tablet PC. The company still guards some details about the machine, but the media has ferreted out a bit about how the…
5:09am ET
Technology
Search Industry, Born In The US, Struggles In China Which May Not Want Search At All
The search engine as a key part of the internet was born with the products of companies such as Altavista back in the late 1990s. The usefulness of search to consumers advanced…
3:35pm ET
How Google Pays Next To Nothing In Taxes
“Double Irish” and “Dutch Sandwich” sounds like action movies or detective novels. The last thing that anyone would suspect them to be were sophisticated tax avoidance strategies that save Google Inc. (GOOG)…