10:08am ET
Investing
Tablet Craze Echoes Netbooks
Less than two years ago, netbooks sales were going to tear the heart out of laptop makers. Companies led by Asus stormed US consumer electronics stores with $300 machine ideal for web…
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4:57am ET
Apps & Software
Google’s Video David Battles Industry’s Goliaths
Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) challenged the entrenched providers of video compression software when it bought small firm On2. The search company took On2’s advance video compression product and open sourced it. The company…
4:11am ET
Media
Media Digest (3/4/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg
Jobs are expected to be at a nine-month high in February. (Reuters) Chrysler hopes to refinance its debt ahead of an IPO (Reuters) Banks which mishandled mortgage paperwork have been approached by…
12:52pm ET
Investing
Does iPad2 Make Apple Stock Worth $555 (AAPL, DELL, HPQ)
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) is still the darling of Wall Street and Main Street. While Dell Inc. (NASDAQ:DELL) gets rolling with its Streak tablet and while Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ) gets its…
7:16am ET
Consumer Electronics
Disk Drives.. Value Stocks to Value Traps (WDC, STX, AAPL, SNDK)
Investors generally look to low price-to-earnings ratios to find “Value Stocks.” The trick is to avoid companies which look like value but may actually be in a state of decline. This is…
4:17am ET
Media
Media Digest 3/3/2011 Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg
The Treasury expects $6.4 billion from the sales of AIG’s (NYSE: AIG) sale of its MetLift share (Reuters) The government is examining a number of small banks to see if they restructured…
2:03pm ET
Retail
iPad2… Killing ZAGG (ZAGG, AAPL)
ZAGG Incorporated (NASDAQ: ZAGG) is getting crushed today due to Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) and a feature of its iPad2 that Steve Jobs himself debuted today. ZAGG makes the invisibleSHIELD and makes…
Jon C. Ogg 7:24am ET
Investing
Todays’ Best Market Rumors (3/2/2011) Yahoo! Japan, Apple Support
Updated throughout the day Yahoo! will sell its Japan interests to Softbank for $8 billion (Reuters) Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) will offer support services to small businesses for $499 a year. The project…
Douglas A. McIntyre 4:12am ET
Media
Media Digest (3/2/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg
Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) is in talks to sell its part of a Japanese joint venture for $8 billion. (Reuters) Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) will release its iPad 2 today. (Reuters) The SEC charged…
9:07am ET
Investing
Short Selling Trends Mixed in High-Priced Market Leaders (AMZN, AAPL, BIDU, FFIV, GS, GOOG, IBM, MA, NFLX, POT, PCLN, CRM, VMW, WYNN)
Jon OggThe short sellers seem to be increasing bets in some sectors while decreasing their bets elsewhere. We are again seeing a record low in the short interest while others are seeing…
12:05pm ET
Companies and Brands
Apple & Google Take Fight to Music Services (AAPL, GOOG, AMZN, WMG)
The iTunes store has been a huge success for Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL). Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) has yet to introduce a music marketplace, but hopes do so next month, according to…
5:55am ET
Investing
MacBook Pro: Too Much Computing Power
The new MacBook Pro has a price tag between $1,199 and $2,499. It is more powerful than the mainframes IBM marketed in the 1960s. The computer has quad core processors, Thunderbolt technology,…
4:12am ET
Investing
Media Digest (2/25/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg
EADS division Airbus lost out on an Air Force tanker to Boeing (NYSE: BA) (Reuters) Gold and oil moved higher on concerns about Libya (Reuters) Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) launched a new MacBook Pro…
7:45am ET
Consumer Electronics
10 Hidden Gems in SanDisk’s Annual Report (SNDK, AAPL)
SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK) has just jointed the waves and waves of companies which have filed their 2010 annual reports under the form 10-K with the SEC. Most investors do not read…
Jon C. Ogg 4:14am ET
Media
Media Digest (2/24/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg
Brent crude rose $6 to $113 on worries about Middle East contagion. (Reuters) GM (NYSE: GM) is likely to post its first annual profit since 2004. (Reuters) An effort by shareholders to…