Wall St. analysts and the media have spent the weeks after the release of the Palm (PALM) Pre on the Sprint (S) network wondering how the handset is actually selling and whether…
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…
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…
Leap Wireless International Inc. (NASDAQ: LEAP) made our volume spike alert this morning based on last night’s dismal earnings results. But after a deeper look, there is an old reminder here that…
Reuters: Video games hope to make a comeback with new titles and price cuts. Reuters: “Cash for clunkers” should help July car figures. Reuters: USB (UBS) shares should do well after it…
Sony has been skewered for its lack of innovation for the last half decade. Its last big consumer electronics hit was the Walkman which went on sale in June 1979. Sony had…
Analysts have hoped that the rate at which Americans become unemployed will slow in the second half of 2009. There has been some evidence that the period in which the economy would lose…
Short sellers are will to bet, at least for now, that the worst of the banking earning crisis is over. Short interest in a number of large financial companies fell sharply for…
AT&T (T) appropriately makes the point that its earnings now are driven by its cellular business and its new fiber broadband. The company now has 79.6 million wireless subscribers. The Apple (AAPL)…
AT&T’s (T) wireless, broadband, and U-verse TV subscription businesses all did well in the second quarter. Buried a bit deep in the press release about earnings was the fact that AT&T had…
Amazon’s (AMZN) Kindle e-book reader has access to the Internet through the Sprint (S) network. The e-commerce firm’s rival, Barnes & Noble (BKS), has done the Kindle one better. It will connect…
Wall St. analysts expect Apple’s earnings to do better than estimates. This is not surprising. Apple (AAPL) has a history of setting low expectations about its figures and then beating them handily.…
This week will mark the first crest of earnings season as we have 11 of the 30 DJIA components reporting earnings this week alone. On Tuesday, we have earnings from Caterpillar Inc.…
What started as a qu ery to the FCC last month by Sen. John Kerry, (D-Mass.), and a handful of other senators asking whether exclusive deals between carriers and cell phone makers…
Cellular providers including Sprint (S), AT&T (T), and Verizon Wireless (VZ)(VOD) have had the broadband wireless market all to themselves. WiFi offered some modest competition, but its service only works within a…
