Shares of Netflix Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) have risen about 7% today and it’s hard to say whether the main cause is speculation that Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) might buy the company or…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street brokerage and research firms this Wednesday morning. Acme Packet, Inc. (NASDAQ: APKT) Cut to Neutral at…
US stock markets rallied on the first morning of trading in the new year. Index futures were up sharply and trading zoomed past the mark to rise more than 2%. Strong manufacturing…
In an apparent effort to blow out its existing inventory, Research in Motion Ltd. (NASDAQ: RIMM) has dropped the price of all its PlayBook tablets to $299 — regardless of memory size.…
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) is the darling of Wall Street and Main Street in America. If you go beyond the permanent loss of Steve Jobs and just look at the business and…
Jon C. Ogg Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street brokerage and research firms this Tuesday morning. Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM) Cut to Neutral from…
The primary reason, it is often argued, that China is an important market for many large U.S. companies is that its population has doubled since the early 1960s. But the whole picture…
The markets will await several critical pieces of data over the next several days. Stocks likely will not move much until this information is out. December car sales will show whether consumers…
Wall St. expects same-store sales for December to rise 4.3%. (Reuters) Returns of holiday online gifts are expect to reach a record. (Reuters) Venezuela says it will pay Exxon Mobil (NYSE: XOM)…
Ticket sales for movie theaters dropped in 2011 the most in 16 years, according to Hollywood.com. Some of the fall-off is due to a dearth of blockbuster films. But the industry also…
Samsung had more market share of the US handset market than any other manufacturer in the three months which ended in November. The figure was 25.6% according to Comscore, up .3% from the…
Douglas A. McIntyre Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) went from Wall Street’s darling in 2011 to being Wall Street’s whipping boy. The company’s efforts under Reed Hastings could easily become the classic case study for “How…
Customer service surveys cannot entirely distinguish between true, direct customer service on the one hand and brand perception and reputation of the company providing the service on the other. A look at…
It is usually good to be first to market with a popular new technology. That is assuming, however, a company’s version of the new technology works. In the case of Verizon Wireless’s 4G…
A Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) executive said that 3.7 million Android devices were activated on December 24 and 25, a sign the sales of smartphones which use the OS were brisk Andy Rubin tweeted…
