An exclusive story at Geekwire reports that Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) has acquired TeachStreet, a five-year old startup that matches teachers and students in an online marketplace. No acquisition price was given. The…
Samsung claims a Germany court has blocked Apple’s request to stop the sales of the South Korean company’s tablets and smartphones in the European nation. The action is part of a wrestling…
Glencore and Xstrata are in merger talks. (Reuters) A federal mortgage deal with banks over mortgage fraud would give states enforcement power. (Reuters) Sony (NYSE: SNE) expects a $2.9 billion loss. (Reuters) Long-term…
Sony’s (NYSE: SNE) revenue fell 9% in the September quarter and the company posted a loss, one of a long series. The Japanese firm also said that its P&L problems would not…
Why should Facebook be free from the patent wars that have rocked the tech world in recent months. Apple has sued multiple rivals, particularly Samsung. Kodak and Microsoft has made patent claims…
After years of failed product launches, bad management decisions, and billions of dollars in losses which have caused its stock price to plunge, Sir Howard Stinger has finally be replaced as the…
Semiconductor manufacturer Broadcom Corp. (NASDAQ: BRCM) reported fourth quarter and full year earnings after markets closed today. The company posted adjusted fourth-quarter EPS of $0.68, beating the consensus estimate of $0.65. Revenue…
Paul Ausick A very few people have signed on online petition that they hope will pressure Apple to release an “ethical” iPhone 5–which would be the next generation of the smartphone. “Ethical” probably means…
Douglas A. McIntyre Best Buy Co., Inc. (NYSE: BBY) has two things working against it today, or at least two things that were not among the myriad of issues impacting it before the last half-day…
Chip designer ARM Holdings plc (NASDAQ: ARMH) posted revenues of $217.4 million for the company’s fourth quarter, handily beating the consensus estimate of $193.4 million. Adjusted net income also soared past expectations,…
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) may be criticised for a myriad of issues and it may be praised for a myriad of issues. Generally speaking, the investing purists wills ay all that matters…
Jon C. Ogg EU nations, led by Germany, have approved a permanent bailout fund, the European Stability Mechanism, which has 500 billion euros. But that does not mean a rescue for Greece. On the contrary,…
Douglas A. McIntyre The global wireless patent war that has engulfed Eastman Kodak, Samsung, HTC, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), RIM (NASDAQ: RIMM) Motorola, Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) among others took another turn today as a Germany court…
Online research gizmo firm Trefis says Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) is worth $550 a share. Since the estimate is based on a model and not much on human judgment, it may be worth very…
Douglas A. McIntyre Almost all investments rise and fall in price through time, and the same is true over the value of sports collectibles and baseball cards. The ‘investing’ rule in sports collectibles that has…
