courtesy of Sony Corp.Sir Howard Stringer, who Sony Corp.’s (NYSE: SNE) board turned to as chief executive in 2005, said he will retire as chairman. He departs as the company he oversaw sits…
Jon OggIt may be the weekend, and the DJIA hit a new high this last week, but there is no such thing as any rest for the wicked. 24/7 Wall St. has…
U.S. equity markets opened higher this morning mostly on the strength of a far-better-than-expected report on U.S. non-farm payrolls and a lower-than-expected unemployment rate of 7.7% (more coverage here). In Europe, German…
Jon OggThese are some of this Friday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen from Wall St. research calls. Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) reiterated Outperform and $600 price target by Credit Suisse.…
ThinkstockYou have heard of all sorts of bubbles in the financial world. There are instances like the housing bubble, a bond bubble, the dot-com bubble, the tech bubble, the private equity bubble, and…
ThinkstockThe Wall Street Journal reported that S&P 500 companies will return $300 billion to shareholders in 2013 via dividends and share purchases. The figure is a record, which would imply a level…
ThinkstockApple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) first tried to license music for a new streaming service in time for the iPhone 5 launch, but pushback from the industry’s largest music publisher, Sony/ATV, a division…
courtesy of Apple Inc.By one analyst’s count, the Chinese will buy about 30% of all mobile phones shipped in 2013, or 240 million units of a total approaching 840 million worldwide shipments.…
ThinkstockWe have reported at great length how the world of semiconductors has changed drastically in the past five years. A business that was once dominated by personal computers, laptops and servers is…
courtesy of Apple Inc.Original 2013 production levels for the iPad and iPad mini from Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) totaled about 60 million iPads and 40 million iPad minis. The company is now…
courtesy of Apple Inc.In a refrain we’ve all heard more than once already, research firm comScore Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR) reported today that the U.S. market share leader among smartphone manufacturers is Apple…
Frank Golhen, via Wikimedia CommonsThe news of the Dow Jones Industrial Average hitting new highs this week is certainly good news. The problem is that the news comes with some serious caveats.…
courtesy of SamsungThe frenzy over the launch of the new Samsung Galaxy S IV increases by the day. The smartphone will replace the wildly successful Galaxy S III, which has been called the Apple…
Douglas A. McIntyre ThinkstockThoughts on Dow Record Almost every financial and general newspaper or news website has as its headline a story about the record peak of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The same media…
Douglas A. McIntyre courtesy of Facebook Inc.Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) and Beats Electronics discuss a content partnership. (Reuters) The European Union will fine Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) for violating agreements about use of its browser.…
