Wikimedia CommonsOf the 30 stocks in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, a nearly infinite combination of their advances could put the index over 17,000 for the first time. The Dow stands at…
Top Apple suppliers are getting, and will continue to get, gigantic orders to produce components for the eagerly awaited iPhone 6. Skeptics who were writing off Apple a year ago may have…
All indexes are objects in motion, despite their static nature, and the S&P 500 is just like the rest. On the close of trading Friday, there will be the quarterly rebalancing for…
Apple has stores in 16 countries. If Apple's retail operations are to grow significantly, their footprint will need to grow beyond the countries where they are currently located.
Douglas A. McIntyre ThinkstockOver the past six months, daily usage of health and fitness apps has grown by 62%, a growth rate that is 87% faster than the mobile apps industry as a whole. That…
Paul Ausick Amazon.com Inc.At a press event Wednesday in Seattle, Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) CEO Jeff Bezos introduced the company’s “Fire” phone, a 4.7-inch smartphone that is entering a sector dominated by Samsung Electronics…
Smartphones are universally available in the United States for prices that are as low as free, so people who without smartphones almost certainly do not want one or cannot afford one.
Wednesday's expected announcement of a new smartphone from Amazon.com is also reported to reveal that the online retailer has signed a deal with AT&T as the exclusive carrier for the phone.
It is a little difficult to see the logic behind a decision by independent recording labels to refuse to sign a new licensing agreement with YouTube's yet-to-be launched music subscription service.
ThinkstockNuance Communications Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN) owes its fortunes back to the days of Lernout & Hauspie in the 1990s. Now the independent speech recognition leader is seeing its shares surge on reports…
Amazon.com has released numbers showing that Kindle Fire HDX customers who used the Mayday button to get customer service enjoy a response time of an average of 9.75 seconds.
A new report from the Portfolio Strategy team at Oppenheimer makes the case that large cap names are the only place to be now and going forward.
AppleIn its first quarter of fiscal 2014, Apple Inc. | AAPL Price Prediction (NASDAQ: AAPL) reported selling 51.03 million iPhones. The company’s second quarter, which ended in March, saw total sales fall…
Paul Ausick Samsung ElectronicsSamsung Electronics introduced its latest tablets on Thursday, the Galaxy Tab S in 8.4-inch and 10.5-inch models. Both have higher resolution displays than the iPad Air and the iPad Mini from…
BMW GroupIn what the German carmaker calls the “first-ever, mass-produced integration” with a car’s on-board entertainment system, BMW announced on Thursday that ConnectedDrive-equipped BMW and Mini cars will be able to add…
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