ThinkstockMicrosoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) is buying Nokia Corp.’s (NYSE: NOK) mobile phone and devices business to boost its presence in the ultra-competitive smartphone market. But the question is whether the Nokia operations…
Apple got a mid-day pop on Wednesday due to nothing more than comments from activist investor and billionaire Carl Icahn. His position is now believed to top $3 billion, and he called…
Jon C. Ogg Facebook has been listed at a public company for two years, yet it is one of the most widely traded stocks on any U.S. exchange. Others vying for the top spot have…
These are the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen from Wall Street research firms on Tuesday January 21, 2014.
If Wall Street believed that Amazon.com had a surge in holiday sales, that optimism did not correlate with the stock price. Or it could have been that the high end of Amazon's…
The chance that smartphone sales would decrease after years in which the devices had taken the place of PCs among tens of millions of consumers worldwide was considered low. However, the process…
One thing is for sure as the new year in trading has started to unfold. We have not met a firm on Wall Street that does not like technology for 2014. For…
The new year is well under way and the major firms on Wall Street are all presenting their best stock ideas for 2014. The team at Cantor Fitzgerald is no exception.
While Apple CEO Tim Cook was in Beijing to meet Chairman Xi Guohua of China Mobile, the latter company announced that preorders for the iPhone have reached about 1 million units.
Trey Thoelcke ThinkstockIn 2013, the United States Patent and Trademark Office granted more than 270,000 patents, often to the same organizations. The USPTO awarded 76,850 patents to the top 50 companies alone. IBM received…
Suntory, the Japanese brewer, spent $13.6 billion to buy Beam, the maker of Jim Beam. In doing so, Suntory has moved further into a business that is as likely to be successful…
The 2013 brands rankings are out, and many of the names on the BrandIndex list are iconic American companies and products. It makes sense for investors to buy stocks that resonate well…
The search for a new CEO for BlackBerry is over. John S. Chen has promised to stay on at BlackBerry and the word "interim" has been dropped from his title as chief…
The tech media are awash with rumors that Microsoft will release Windows 9 in early 2015. That is good, as Windows 8 has been a failure.
At a time when federal lawmakers are debating issues like unemployment benefits, food stamps and the minimum wage, as well as considering an overhaul of the tax code, there are now more…
