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World’s Top Brands Led By Apple, IBM, Google
You may or may not have heard of Millward Brown, but you might not be surprised who they ranked as the world’s top brand: Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) took the pole position…
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Telecom & Wireless
Sprint Offers AT&T And Verizon Customers $100 iPhone Trade In
Sprint-Nextel (NYSE: S) began a new program to gain customers which may be desperate or brilliant. An evaluation of the results may end up being more important than Sprint’s initial intension. Sprint will offer people…
Douglas A. McIntyre 10:41am ET
Companies and Brands
Shared Data Plans on Tap from Wireless Vendors
We noted earlier this morning that Verizon Wireless, the joint venture between Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ) and Vodafone Group plc (NASDAQ: VOD), will not offer unlimited data plans to existing customers…
6:41am ET
Investing
What’s Important in the Financial World (5/17/2012) Greece Wobbles, Verizon Increase Rates
The debate over the state of the housing market continues to seesaw. RealtyTrac reported that April foreclosures fell again and are now back to July 2007 levels. But the research operation’s CEO Brandon…
6:29am ET
Telecom & Wireless
T-Mobile, Like Sprint, Loses Battle for Market Share
T-Mobile, the wireless operation of Deutsche Telekom, probably will never recover from a failed takeover bid by AT&T (NYSE: T). The FCC and the U.S. Department of Justice killed the deal, and…
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Investing
What’s Important in the Financial World (5/15/2012) New Apple MacBook
Rumors persist, most recently reported by Bloomberg, that Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) will launch a new super-thin line of laptops. The latest version of the MacBook will be powered by Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) chips, a…
6:25am ET
Investing
Wireless Customer Satisfaction Improves
Customer satisfaction with wireless subscriber companies steadied last quarter according to the widely followed American Customer Satisfaction Index. On a scale on which 100 is the best score, AT&T (NYSE: T) posted…
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Investing
Investors Seeking Defensive Stocks Where 3% to Over 5% Dividends Rule!
A stock market that sells off eight of nine days is not a good market. Even the Facebook IPO is being viewed as a one-off item rather than a systemic item which…
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Investing
24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell
The major US stock indexes opened significantly lower this morning as investors reacted to the surprise loss of $2 billion by JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) disclosed by the bank’s CEO…
9:09am ET
Consumer Electronics
One Analyst Signals Caution and Cuts Estimates On Apple (AAPL, T, VZ, S)
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) may have pulled back but this is still the darling of America. Most analysts have stepped all over themselves to raise their estimates and their price targets all…
8:46am ET
Investing
Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (ADTN, AAPL, ARNA, T, BEAM, BBBY, BBY, BWLD, CVX, HEK, JPM, MYGN, PRA, RSH, RXN, RIMM, SLF, TXRH, VZ)
These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls this Friday. Adtran Inc. (NASDAQ: ADTN) Reiterated Buy and $39 target at Argus. Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:…
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Media
Media Digest (5/11/2012) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg
Facebook’s initial public offering is already oversubscribed. (Reuters) JP Morgan (NYSE: JPM) books a $2 billion trading loss, and the figure could rise by another $1 billion. (Reuters) China’s industrial production and…
9:36am ET
Telecom & Wireless
MetroPCS Holders Cheering The Wrong Merger… It’s Time to Revisit The Past (PCS, S, LEAP, T)
MetroPCS Communications, Inc. (NYSE: PCS) had a stellar Wednesday on rumors and talk that Deutsche Telekom may be wanting to roll the no-contract and prepaid wireless outfit into its T-Mobile operations. What is…
Jon C. Ogg 6:48am ET
Investing
Short Sellers Hit Sprint, Chesapeake Energy and Others
Short sellers moved aggressively into the shares of companies with weak financial prospects and stock prices. According to data from the NYSE and Nasdaq, for the period that ended April 30, shares…
2:04pm ET
Telecom & Wireless
Another Wrinkle in the Wireless Business (PCS, LEAP, DTEGY, S, VZ, VOD, T)
Shares of MetroPCS Communications Inc. (NYSE: PCS) and Leap Wireless International Inc. (NASDAQ: LEAP) are shooting up today following a report at Bloomberg News that German phone company Deutsche Telekom AG (OTC:…