4:12pm ET
Investing
Kodak Sues Samsung Over Patents
It may be too late, but Eastman Kodak (NYSE: EK) has begun suits against tech companies that it claims violate some of its digital patents. The latest is against the second largest…
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4:08pm ET
Investing
24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell (CHK, GOOG, KR, LNG, CCL, CREE, SCHW, FAST, GS, STT, CLWT, UEPS, COOL, KUTV, AAPL, MCD, NKE)
Markets opened slightly lower in the US this morning, but picked up steam in the morning and continued to rise, if slowly, for the rest of the day. The tech sector showed…
2:52pm ET
Investing
Over 10 Big Stocks Hitting New All-Time Highs (AAPL, DLTR, ECL, MCD, MNST, NKE, PNRA, SBUX, AAP, AZO, ORLY)
The logic from technical traders is simple: “Stocks hitting new highs tend to keep hitting new highs.” Eventually that comes to an end, sometimes a painful end. Until that end arrives it…
10:01am ET
Investing
Apple Shares Hitting All-Time Highs Ahead of Earnings (AAPL)
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) shares hit yet another all-time high today. The new high as of 10:00 AM EST is $428.08 ahead of next week’s earnings due on January 24. The prior…
Jon C. Ogg 9:11am ET
Telecom & Wireless
Noting Facebook as a Potential RIM Acquirer? (RIMM, GOOG, AAPL, AMZN, MSFT)
Research In Motion Limited (NASDAQ: RIMM) has been the ongoing subject of takeover rumors and that has put in at least a near-term floor after the death spiral took away three-quarters of…
8:05am ET
Investing
Apple Could Sell 48 Million iPads This Year (AAPL, AMZN, MSFT, NOK, GOOG)
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) is expected to announce a new version of its iPad tablet by the end of March. There is plenty of speculation about what will be included in the…
6:48am ET
Media
Media Digest (1/18/2012) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT
Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) founder and former CEO Jerry Yang leaves the company’s board. (Reuters) The World Bank sharply cuts global growth forecasts. (Reuters) Greece and private creditors race to settle on a…
9:24am ET
Companies and Brands
Top Brands in 2011 (KO, IBM, MSFT, GOOG, GE, MCD, INTC, AAPL, DIS, HPQ, NOK, CSCO, TM, AMZN, F, HMC, DE)
Brand consultancy Interbrand has issued its latest report on brand value, and while the top five did not change, a gap is opening between the fourth and fifth place finishers. The largest…
6:48am ET
Special Report
The Most Innovative Companies in the World
Each year, the U.S. Patent Office and Trademark Office awards hundreds of thousands of patents to American and global companies. Last week, IFI Claims Patent Services, a producer of patent databases, released its top…
6:43am ET
Media
Media Digest (1/17/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg
China’s economy expands at a better-than-expected 8.9% in Q4 and area markets soared. (Reuters) Walmart (NYSE: WMT) appoints a former CBS (NYSE: CBS) digital executive as head of its digital operations. (Reuters) Disapproval…
6:42am ET
Investing
Samsung Shows Balance Sheet Muscle–$41 Billion Capex For 2012
Samsung, one of the world’s largest electronics companies and the No.2 market of smartphones showed what large profits and a strong balance sheet can do for a firm’s ability to invest in…
9:14am ET
Investing
Motorola Wins One Round In Patent Fight With Apple
Motorola Mobility (NYSE: MMI), soon to be bought by Google (NASDAQ: GOOG), reported that it has won a preliminary round against Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) in a dispute over three patents. The patent wars…
6:20am ET
Investing
What’s Important in the Financial World (1/16/2011) China’s GDP, Apple iPad 3
The tension over the financial crisis has risen at an astonishing rate in just three days. Downgrades of the sovereign debt of several nations have rattled the markets. But the most immediate trouble…
11:26am ET
Telecom & Wireless
Apple iPad 3 Will Have 4G
The news Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPad 3 will be released in March, according to several media reports. The machine will likely connect to super fast 4G LTE networks. These are being deployed by Verizon Wireless…
2:04pm ET
Industrials
Apple Supplier List Revealing (AAPL, AMD, CY, BRCM, FCS, FLEX, JBL, VSH, TQNT, SNDK, ONNN, QCOM)
For the first time ever, Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) has released a list of its 156 suppliers in connection with the company’s release of its supplier responsibility audit. The supplier list is…