The Dow Jones Industrial Average (also called The Dow, Dow 30 and the DJIA) is what most Americans think of as the “stock market.” The widely followed benchmark of 30 American stocks,…
Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC) has an extreme dominance when it comes to the market share of processors inside of personal computers, generally referred to as about 80% depending upon your source and…
What’s driving holiday sales at Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT)? We took a look at some of the best sellers at Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) yesterday, and thought it would be interesting…
Movie studios hope for, plan for, and pray for that blockbuster film that will pay everyone’s bonuses for the year. For retailers, a blockbuster like, say, the Cabbage Patch dolls, are both…
Bank of America Corporation (NYSE: BAC) dismissed speculation, per CNN, that it is the big U.S. bank that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange told Forbes magazine will be the website’s next target. OK!…
Following on its observations that tablet devices and smartphones would hurt PC sales, Gartner Inc. (NYSE: IT) has lowered its forecast for worldwide PC sales for this year. The IT research company …
Short sellers have started to come back into some select names again. While we often look for patterns, it is some of of these high-priced stocks that often offer the most insight. …
Earlier this week came the Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) sales gimmick for Black Friday. It started out as a bad tease that really left a lot to be desired with engraving and…
Jon C. Ogg The craze of late-2008 into 2009 was the netbook. The new craze is the tablet PC, and you do not need to be told about the iPad from Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL). …
Gimmicks are generally considered unique or special features to make something stand out that would have otherwise been lost in the shuffle or been ignored. Gimmick often do nothing other than draw…
Jon C. Ogg Being Blockbuster must be just awful now. We picked this as one of several key brands which would disappear, and it has already met our criteria for disappearing because it filed for…
Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) will not admit publicly that its DVD-via-mail business is dying. But, its announcement today that it will offer an “internet only” product is a powerful hint that the company…
The Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone may appear to be invulnerable at the top of the smartphone food chain, but it may soon have company. ChangeWave reports “Among individual iPhone models, the iPhone…
Dell’s (NASDAQ: DELL) margins rushed past expectations and shares moved higher (Reuters) Bernanke said a strong US recovery is essential to global economic health (Reuters) Lawmakers attacked regulators and banks on the…
The new Microsoft (NASADQ: MSFT) Kinect, which has already sold 1 million units, and updated versions of products from Sony (NYSE: SNE), and Nintendo had all better sell well in November and…
