As reviews and predictions increase ahead of Friday’s release of Microsoft Corp.’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) Windows 8, a few issues dominate the commentary. The first is that Windows 8 is such a radical…
Companies institute or raise dividends for several reasons. One, the most striking example of which is Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL), is to return money to shareholders from balance sheets laden with cash.…
Little Excitement for Windows 8 As reviews and predictions increase ahead of Friday’s release of Microsoft Corp.’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) Windows 8, a few issues dominate the commentary. The first is that Windows…
BP PLC (NYSE: BP) sets a deal to sell its half of BP-TNK to Rosneft. (Reuters) European Union leaders will take at least two months to set terms for new rules for the…
Sony Corp. (NYSE: SNE) continues it retreat as most of its business divisions continue to sputter in the face of competition. The company closed a camera and mobile phone factory. It also…
EU Bank Supervision Coming The Europeans finally have agreed on something. There will be one bank supervisor for the region as early as next year. While the decision may be a step…
The three major U.S. stock indexes opened lower this morning and really never got on track the entire day. The lower opening was likely a reaction to China’s weakest quarterly GDP growth…
Nokia Corporation (NYSE: NOK) was originally trading higher on earnings but shareholders have grown very used to disappointment by this fallen leader. The troubled cellphone maker managed to show third quarter revenue…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations we have seen from Wall St. research calls this Thursday. Alkermes PLC (NASDAQ: ALKS) raised to Outperform with $24 target…
The intellectual property lawsuits between Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) and Samsung continue to go back and forth. The latest court decision hurts Apple. A U.K. court said that the Samsung Galaxy tablet…
Trey Thoelcke Apple vs. Samsung The intellectual property lawsuits between Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) and Samsung continue to go back and forth. The latest court decision hurts Apple. A U.K. court said that the…
Most consumers still love Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) and its growing list of products. The iPad seems to have created a new computing market that was technically not even a market before.…
We learned last week that there were 6 billion mobile device users in the world. Today, research firm Strategy Analytics said that the number of global smartphone users has topped 1 billion.…
Paul Ausick Spain on the Cusp Spain is on the cusp of something, but no one seems to know for sure what it is. The country received good news from Moody’s that kept Spain’s…
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) apparently is about to have another in a series of very public product announcements that stretch back over all of the years when Steve Jobs ran the company.…
