ThinkstockThe watch was supposed to go the way of the dodo, as other electronic devices like smartphones took their place as portable clocks, alarms and stopwatches. Yet despite the nearly universal availability…
Douglas A. McIntyre courtesy of Apple Inc.Apple Inc.’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) developers site was taken down by another in a long series of hacks of corporate and government websites. If any company ought to have the ability to…
Douglas A. McIntyre ThinkstockIn the world to tech, there is old tech, current tech and future tech. Old tech got spanked this week, as Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) proved that its Windows PC business continues…
The DJIA and S&P 500 Index are in the midst of earnings season, and despite choppy earnings and sales figures the stock market just keeps rallying higher and higher. Friday’s mixed results…
ThinkstockThe Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has crafted a proposal to develop new rules over the next two years that would put an end to many of the tax avoidance…
ThinkstockIn what an obvious effort to beef up its widely panned iOS mapping capability, Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) has acquired a small Canadian firm, Locationary, for an undisclosed sum. The company offers…
courtesy of Apple Inc.Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) has moved to the margins enough in the conversation about big tech that earnings from Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) and Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) today…
courtesy of Google Inc.For investors who believed that Google Inc.’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) shares would be held down because it has only one source of revenue, it is time to adjust expectations. The…
courtesy of DellCarl Icahn told the media and investors who have followed, and participated in, his attempt to seize control of Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) that he has a new chief executive…
courtesy of AppleApple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) will be one of the most closely watched company earnings reports this earnings season. After all, it is still the darling of the consumer electronics world,…
Jon C. Ogg These are the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations from select Wall Street research calls on Tuesday, July 16, 2013. They include Baidu, Citigroup, GM, Ford and Yum! Brands.
Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) has trouble in some of the largest markets overseas. As its share price rockets to more than $900 and reaches all-time highs, investors anticipate that its advertising revenue,…
AppleThe disagreements between smartphone leaders Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) and Samsung Electronics apparently do not extend to the chip fabrication part of the business. A report in The Korean Economic Daily this…
Wikimedia CommonsThe stock market rallied to new highs last week on the strength of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke’s comments on the continuation of the easy money policies that are flooding the…
courtesy of the Walt Disney Co.Hulu will not be sold. The online video website was put on the market by its owners, 21st-Century Fox, NBCUniversal and Walt Disney Co, (NYSE: DIS). Rumors…
