President Obama spoke to the Chamber of Commerce yesterday. What he said can be condensed easily. He will do what he can to cut unnecessary regulations and improve the corporate tax…
Douglas A. McIntyre Data released by comScore about mobile phone sales in December showed that trends from earlier in the year continued. Sales of Samsung handsets bested all of its rivals in the US with…
The joint venture between Sony Corp. (NYSE: SNE) and L.M. Ericsson Telephone Co. (NASDAQ: ERIC), aptly called Sony Ericcson, tantalized gamers with a commercial during yesterday’s Super Bowl for a device everyone’s…
A number of news media have recently reported that Nokia (NYSE: NOK) CEO Stephen Elop will replace a large number of the top managers at the world’s largest cellphone company. Among the…
AOL (NYSE: AOL) bought the Huffington Post for $315 million. (Reuters) Sanofi-Aventis and Genzyme (NASDAQ: GENZ) are closer to a deal (Reuters) Hackers who broke into the NASDAQ will undermine investor confidence.…
Apple (AAPL) may make significantly more money from its new iPad that it has on any other product it has launched since 2001 when the iPod came to market. Research firm iSuppli…
Consumers who want an Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone from Verizon Wireless can no longer order it online. The Verizon Wireless website posted a message which says iPhone 4. Verizon. It begins.We are…
Unemployment most likely improved last month but the jobless rate may rise. (Reuters) JPMorgan (NYSE: JPM) may have ignored signs that Madoff was committing fraud. (Reuters) Ben Bernanke said that if the…
A judge said BP plc (NASDAQ: BP) $20 billion fund head Ken Feinberg is not independent of the oil company. (Reuters) Record snow will hurt retail sales. (Reuters) Poor weather will move…
Corporate turnarounds are almost never engineered by a single person. A CEO who takes a failing company and makes it successful again obviously got help from management, a board, along with customers…
Games-maker Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS) is getting a boost in share price today following a better-than-expected third fiscal quarter earnings report, and a buoyant outlook. That outlook depends on extending its…
Recently, I violated the cardinal rule of Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPhone ownership — I got mine wet. Worse, the “incident” occurred in the bathroom. Details will be spared, but suffice it to…
If mobile phones still did nothing but voice calls and text messaging, existing mobile networks would likely be sufficient for another 10 years or more. Smartphones that surf the web and allow…
NokiaStandard & Poor’s suspects that the new strategy from Nokia Corp. (NYSE: NOK), set to be announced February 11th, is not going to be enough to boost the company’s competitive position in…
Updated throughout the day Citigroup (NYSE: C) will pay more of its investment banker bonuses in stock (Bloomberg) Europe officials are close to a decision to allow the recently created rescue fund…