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…
JoeInQueens, via Wikimedia CommonsBillionaire and activist investor Carl Icahn has most recently been known for his ant-Dell stance in the Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) transaction, and he has been known for his…
Courtesy ZTE Corp.Chinese mobile device maker ZTE Corp. is about to launch its ZTE One smartphone in the United States and the United Kingdom. The device will sell for $80 in the…
Courtesy of Tesla MotorsArtist Andy Warhol once said, “In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes.” Elon Musk has had that 15 minutes and then some. However, it is time…
With stocks within a few percentage points of all-time highs and with the stocks in a confirmed bull market, we wanted to consider the effect of stock splits in a time when market…
Courtesy BlackBerry To call the reaction to BlackBerry Ltd.’s (NASDAQ: BBRY) admission that it exploring strategic alternatives “muted” is probably to understate the case. Investors can’t bring themselves to believe that anyone…
AppleIf you have an iPhone5 and upgraded from a prior iPhone4 or iPhone4s, chances are high that you have had some frustrations over how fast the battery drains. Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL)…
Jon C. Ogg JoeInQueens, via Wikimedia CommonsA rumor from tech site All Things D that Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) will release new versions of its iPhone on September 10 has spread around to news and…
Courtesy BlackBerryThe rise and fall of Research In Motion, now BlackBerry Ltd. (NASDAQ: BBRY), has been a monumental one. Imagine having the best products craved by everyone to the point that your…
ThinkstockLost in the frenzy of news coverage about the purchase of the Washington Post Company’s (NYSE: WPO) flagship by Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) founder Jeff Bezos is whether Amazon itself is doing…
