If you want to know what is hurting Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) and helping Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT), it may be nothing more than continued chatter about an index rebalancing act by…
Moody’s made a series of announcements about the possible downgrades of a number of banks and financial firms, mostly due to exposure to financial trouble in Europe. The warning included banks in…
Douglas A. McIntyre Moody’s may cut Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) and UBS (NYSE: UBS) as the global euro crisis spreads. (Reuters) Officials in Japan arrest former Olympus executives. (Reuters) Congress reaches a deal on payroll tax…
Google’s gambit to get into the hardware business through a buyout of Motorola has been approved by regulators in Europe and the US. Not so in China, which could be a problem. Industry experts…
Apple wants to sue Kodak over patent infringement. Since Kodak is in Chapter 11, Apple has to ask the court which has supervised the process. The suit is part of a very…
Last week China’s Proview Technology (Shenzen) filed a $38 million lawsuit against Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) claiming that the US company infringes on its copyright of the ‘iPad’ moniker. According to a…
Paul Ausick Chinese central bank leader Zhou Xiaochuan told European officials that his country will provide funds to aid the struggling nations of the eurozone. The money could come through the International Monetary Fund of the European Financial…
China offers financial support to the fund that will be used for bailouts of the eurozone’s weakest economies. (MarketWatch) Greece is in the midst of what may be one of the deepest recessions on…
Gartner released its research about Q4 2011 smartphone sales. The data was pretty much as expected. Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) and Google’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) Android based phones added market share. Weaklings which include former market leader…
The relentless attack by U.S. credit rating agencies on the risk of the sovereign debt of EU members continues. It happened again yesterday when Moody’s downgraded a number of nations just after a deal was set for…
Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) gets approval from the European Commission and the U.S. to buy Motorola Mobility (NYSE: MMI). (Reuters) Boeing (NYSE: BA) signs a $22.4 billion deal with Lion Air. (Reuters) Moody’s…
Among the hundreds of rumors about the release data and technical prowess of the new iPad 5 is another rumor that the company will release a tablet with a smaller screen–perhaps 8…
Douglas A. McIntyre Equity markets got off to a good start this morning as all three major US stock indexes opened higher on the news that the Greek parliament had approved a new round of…
Whitney Houston’s death on Saturday is being followed by many former fans. What is interesting is that after a celebrity’s death it turns out that their albums, books, magazines with them on the…
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) has been on fire in 2012 and has hit new high after new high. If you just benchmark the $500 price, Apple shares are up 23.4% so far…
