Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) is not the number 1 mobile operating system used in smartphones in the US. It is not number 2. Google is now in third place with only 19.6% of…
Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) made a mistake when it bought Palm. It is about to make a much more costly mistake in launching a series of smartphones that run the rickety Palm webOS,…
Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) is testing the old “why buy the cow if the milk is free” cliché with the Android Mobile OS. The question remains whether the search engine giant will…
Standard & Poor’s has released a very positive dividend development trend for 2010 that covers roughly 7,000 public shares that report dividend information. It is no small sum. The third quarter of…
These are some of this Tuesday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research notes: Anheuser-Busch InBev (NYSE: BUD) Raised to Buy at Stifel Nicolaus. Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL)…
Amazon.com (NYSE: AMZN) has begun to raise the price of some of its e-books above their paper versions. According to The New York Times, “Don’t Blink,” by James Patterson and Howard Roughan,…
Reuters: Bank of Japan moved rates to zero Reuters: September retail sales were probably up due to promotions. Reuters: Obama said the fiscal situation was untenable. Reuters: Twitter appointed a new CEO.…
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Reuters: The American Sociology Review said a group of mortgages aimed at racially segregated neighborhoods helped cause the mortgage crisis. Reuters: Sanofi-Aventis made an $18.5 billion offer for Genzyme (NASDAQ: GENZ). Reuters: …
Ireland’s economy is in a state of chaos thanks to a taxation system that is both inefficient and unfair. About the only group not complaining are the many American companies who consider…
Customers who bought Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPads when the table was first introduced loved the machines. People who have bought them more recently–not so much. NPD research shows that “almost 80 percent…
Douglas A. McIntyre Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) may be late to launch a line of smartphones with its Windows 7 Mobile OS, but it plans to make up for that with a major foray into the…
Google Inc.’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) Android mobile phone operating system continues to eat away at the Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone’s lead in the smartphone market. According to ChangeWave survey of 4,000 respondents,…
Updated throughout the day. Sanofi-Aventis may raise its bid for Genzyme (NASDAQ: GENZ). The Administration has begun to pressure American International Group (NYSE: AIG) to find a way to lessen the government’s…
Updated throughout the day. Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) will unveil an unnamed consumer product. (Reuters) JPMorganChase (NYSE: JPM) will press federal officials about getting back some of the funds it spent to buy…
