The borrow-a-patent, rent-a-patent, buy-a-patent industry is growing by the day. Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) just bought 1,023 patents from IBM (NYSE: IBM). The big hardware company will hardly miss them. It files more…
Smartphone adoption in the US market has reached 35% of US adult mobile phone users, and 42% of all mobile phone owners. In Europe’s five leading markets (France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and…
Best Buy needs new leadership. The current CEO, Brian J. Dunn, has had his chance to turn the company around. Nearly every news report about Best Buy’s (NYSE: BBY) poor earnings carried…
Moody’s cuts ratings of France’s Credit Agricole and Societe Generale as Greek debt trouble spreads. (Reuters) Federal Reserve may try to help the economy with more bond purchases. (Reuters) Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO)…
Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) is going to try to be a bit opportunistic, but this time in buying its own stock on the cheap. The PC giant (and IT-services player) has authorized…
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) has been one of our dividend offenders for quite some time, but it is hard to argue that the company’s equity-investor strategy has been wrong. After all, its…
John Chambers of Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) to preside over the company’s analyst meeting, perhaps for the last time. (Reuters) Merkel says the euro has no orderly method for a default. (Reuters) The…
Jon OggEach morning we review our top upgrades, downgrades, and initiations from Wall Street research notes. We then look back over these at the end of the week to more closely review…
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) has so far refused to succumb to the economic slowdown in the same manner as other technology companies. Even the threat of a long-term brain drain is not…
Jon C. Ogg Obama proposes a $447 billion job stimulation package. (Reuters) Economic problems to be the focus of G7 meetings. (Reuters) One Super Congress member threatens to quit over concerns about military budget cuts.…
The predictions that the PC era is coming to an end are supported almost every time an important piece of research on the industry is released. Research firm Gartner has issued its…
Asia-based smartphone company HTC is locked in several patent battles with Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL). Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) has offered aid to HTC by “loaning” it patents that should help counter Apple’s claims…
Facebook’s first half revenue doubles from a year ago. (Reuters) Fitch warns about downgrades of China and Japan. (Reuters) Department of Defense officials warn of cuts in the sum the government pays…
When great CEOs leave a company, an entire corporate culture is at risk to change, even when the new CEO is the favored replacement. Tim Cook is said to be more than…
Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Tuesday morning. We are tracking news and moves in shares of Apple, Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL), Nokia Corporation (NYSE: NOK), Suntech Power Holdings (NYSE:…
