courtesy Best Buy Co. Inc.Coca-Cola Co. (NYSE: KO) and PepsiCo Inc. (NYSE: PEP) are the most respected brands in the United States. While Coke has enjoyed this status for six years straight, Pepsi moved…
ThinkstockPandora Media Inc. (NYSE: P) reported second-quarter fiscal 2014 results after markets closed today. The Internet radio company posted adjusted diluted earnings per share (EPS) of $0.04 on revenues of $162 million, which…
courtesy of Hewlett-PackardHewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ) is still in the beginnings of its long-term turnaround under CEO Meg Whitman. Earnings were not so bad, but there is this continued erosion in the core…
JoeInQueens, via Wikimedia CommonsApple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) already was recovering from its lows when Carl Icahn tweeted that he had purchased a large stake in the consumer electronics giant. Also note that Apple’s stock…
Jon C. Ogg courtesy of SamsungTo say that Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) has a stranglehold on the tablet market is probably no more than to state the obvious. Of all devices running Apple’s iOS operating…
AppleThe new Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone or iPhones will be released early next month, according to hundreds of press accounts. The range of price points among the models will be substantial,…
courtesy Barnes & Noble Inc.In what has to be one of the stranger product announcements of recent times, Barnes & Noble Inc. (NYSE: BKS) said on Monday morning that it is releasing…
courtesy of ZyngaIs it any wonder that the video game/smartphone game/social media game market is so complex and has reached a level of warfare that analysts can barely follow? Super Data released…
courtesy of SamsungAccording to several press sources, Samsung will introduce the equivalent of a smartwatch that can surf the Web, make phone calls and even tell time. At first, the news would…
courtesy of Sony Corp.Sony Corp. (NYSE: SNE) and Viacom Inc. (NASDAQ: VIAB) have reached a preliminary agreement that would allow Sony to carry Viacom’s cable channels on Sony’s planned Internet TV service.…
ThinkstockAnyone who doubted that the race for global personal computer (PC) supremacy has shifted outside the United States only needs to look at Lenovo’s most recent quarterly results. Revenue at the Chinese…
courtesy of SamsungGlobal mobile phone sales totaled 435 million units in the second quarter of 2013, and of that total, some 225 million units, or 51.8%, were smartphones. That is the first…
Jon OggThe dog days of August have hit the stock market and volume will soon come to a virtual standstill. With a very productive year for the markets almost two-thirds in the…
courtesy of Apple Inc.In a remarkably short time, Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) has gone from being a dictatorship to a democracy. What Steve Jobs could do as he moved the company from…
Douglas A. McIntyre Courtesy BlackBerrySome company is supposed to buy BlackBerry Ltd. (NASDAQ: BBRY), or at least that is what its board appears to believe. The way the smartphone corporation’s stock trades tells otherwise. After…
