The demand for GM stock may push the price per share of the IPO to $33. (Reuters) Rolls Royce began to build more engines to replace faulty ones on Airbus A380s. (Reuters)…
BHP Billiton (NYSE: BHP) abandoned its bid for Potah (NYSE: POT) and said it would begin a $4.2 billion buyback. (Reuters) SAIC has agreed to take a stake in the GM IPO.…
EU officials tried to reassure capital markets about Ireland’s viability. (Reuters) Yahoo ! (NASDAQ: YHOO) said a report it would lay of 20% of staff was “misleading.” (Reuters) Newsweek and The Daily…
Global smartphone sales rose by nearly 100% in the third quarter of 2010 compared with the same period last year. That allowed Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) and Research In Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) to pick up market…
The US has tried to hold together discussions on currency and trade among unruly members of the G20 conference in Seoul. (Reuters) Cisco’s (NASDAQ: CSCO) grim outlook stunned investors. (Reuters) The US…
Research firm Gartner says that global smartphone sales were up 96% in the third quarter compared with the same quarter last year. That outstripped the 35% rise in total handset sales. “Smartphones…
Arguments about the global economy became heated at the G20 summit. (Reuters) Research In Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) prepared to launch its rival to the Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPad and said threats to…
Twitter has, by most estimates, 145 million members, which makes it one of the largest social networks in the world. All major media companies are on Twitter and some have more than…
Updated throughout the day. Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) is under to buy back sour mortgages that it syndicated (NYT) Bank of America and Citigroup (NYSE: C) have begun to test Apple…
Dell (NASDAQ:DELL has decided to replace the 10,000 or so Research In Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) BlackBerries that its employees use with its own Venue Pro smartphone. The Dell product is largely untested.…
The Federal Reserve may allow some of the nation’s strongest banks to raise their dividends. (Reuters) The S&P and DJIA hit 2 year highs. (Reuters) China attacked the US over its plans…
The most common method of valuing stocks is the good old P/E ratio that measures the share price versus the trailing 12-months earnings. For many tech and biotech stocks, that means that…
From AppleInsider: Get ready for cool new iPhone games. The site found an Apple patent application that “describes iPhone games that would use the device’s many sensors and capabilities — including motion…
Douglas A. McIntyre Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) has grown massively and arguably has the coolest products on the market from iPads to iPhones and on. As the company has grown and grown, it has also…
These are some of this Thursday’s key analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls. Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) Started as Outperform with $410 at Baird (expanded details). Boston…
