These are the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen from Wall Street research firms on Friday, February 14, 2014. They include Apple, Aeropostale, Agnico-Eagle, GNC and Stratasys.
What happens if the government kills the proposed combination of Time Warner Cable and Comcast? Cable service will remain poor. Customer satisfaction with cable companies will remain awful. Attempts to raise rates…
courtesy of SamsungIt is easy to form the impression that everyone in the world owns a smartphone. The fact that this is becoming true apparently has clipped the sales rate of the…
Douglas A. McIntyre As Hewlett-Packard and Dell have struggled as personal computer businesses besieged by the success of tablets and smartphones, China-based Lenovo has taken the spot as the world's most successful PC maker.
Thinkstock Apple Supplier Responsibility 2014 Progress Report Apple is deeply committed to expanding opportunities for the people who make our products and ensuring these workers are treated with respect and dignity. We…
Douglas A. McIntyre courtesy of SamsungFor anyone paying attention to the smartphone market, the fact that Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) and Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) dominate the market is certainly no big shocker. Together the…
In a new research report, analysts at J.P. Morgan see key new trends in the wireless world this year that may include the roll-out of revolutionary converged iOS/OSX products from Apple that…
Reuters has reported that Nook-related sales fell during the recent holiday season. With demand for tablets declining, Barnes & Noble, perhaps the weakest player, likely is a harbinger of things to come.
Bloomberg found that Google has executed more deals than any company in the world over the past three years. It edged out marketing and advertising firm WPP and tech giant Intel, which…
thinkstockFebruary 10, 2014: Markets opened slightly lower on Monday, and trading was mixed most of the day with Nasdaq posting a small gain and the other two major indexes posting a small…
Apple may finally be free from outside activist shareholder pressure from the likes of Carl Icahn. In his newest letter to shareholders, Icahn appears to be backing off entirely from his push…
Jon C. Ogg Pre-eminent proxy advisory firm Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) has come down on the side of Apple in its clash with activist investor Carl Icahn over an additional $50 billion share buyback Icahn…
Paul Ausick courtesy of Apple Inc.Pressure from Carl Icahn, the activist investor who has taken a stake in Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) and demanded the company return tens of billions of dollars to shareholders, has…
Douglas A. McIntyre Wikimedia CommonsEven though there is a virtually unlimited supply of Internet searches available and only a limited (if very large) amount of oil and gas available, it would seem that oil and…
ThinkstockChinese Internet service provider NQ Mobile Inc. (NYSE: NQ) was attacked by short selling firm Muddy Waters LLC in late October and the company’s share price tumbled from a 52-week high of…
