A monopoly is either what the government says it is or what a dominant company’s competitors claim. The government’s opinion is the only one that counts, however, as Sprint will find out…
Jon OggThis last week had some key analyst calls that either stood out from the pack, showed some key insight, or which moved shares more than just a garden variety upgrade or…
The leading online music streaming service in Europe, Spotify, is reportedly in line to get an injection of $100 million in venture funding as it seeks to launch its service in the…
SIRIUS XM Radio Inc. (NASDAQ: SIRI) filed its annual report this week for 2010. While many investors know many of the larger outstanding issues, annual reports always contain factoids that most investors…
SIRIUS XM Radio Inc. (NASDAQ: SIRI) actually had a rough day after earnings on Tuesday and shares are back in redemption after some analysts keyed in. While earnings were $0.02 EPS on…
Jon C. Ogg Twitter  has, by most estimates, 175 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…
We have many big events to watch for in the coming week at American Water Works Company, Inc. (NYSE: AWK), Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL), AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T), Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE:…
Pandora Media, Inc. will likely soon be a public company. The leader in internet radio filed its preliminary IPO paperwork on Friday evening. Terms such as a share count and a price…
Earnings season may still be in force, but we are looking for the coming week’s top coming events that could have a large impact on shares on Monday and throughout the week. …
Corporate turnarounds are almost never engineered by a single person. A CEO who takes a failing company and makes it successful again obviously got help from management, a board, along with customers…
SIRIUS XM Radio Inc. (NASDAQ: SIRI) peaked above $1.70 at the start of 2011 with a high of $1.72 on January 3 and a high of $1.74 on January 4, but the…
Jon C. Ogg There are several ways to rank America’s most widely followed public companies. They could be ranked by annual sales, brand value, market capitalization, number of customers, or profits. Another approach is to…
The cost of carrying Monday Night Football is about to go from being expensive to off the charts. We Americans probably never think of the costs behind carrying the game. The costs…
SIRIUS XM Radio Inc. (NASDAQ: SIRI) is surging today on what seemed to be too much at first look. The company signed a pact for BMW. The pact calls for SIRIUS to…
Jon C. Ogg We have a different cast of characters in this weekend’s UNUSUAL SUSPECTS for the week ahead. Many bits of news and rumors are carrying over from last week into the coming week…
