The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, a global association of music publishers, says that the piracy of songs is sharply undermining the rise of digital song and album sales. According to the…
Douglas A. McIntyre On January 27th Apple intends to reveal its”latest creation” to the world. While there has been no official confirmation, it is widely rumored to be a new Apple tablet device, often called…
Douglas A. McIntyre Updated throughout the day. AIG (NYSE:AIG) owes many ex-employees retention bonuses (Reuters) Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) is trying to cut deals to provide book and newspaper content on its new tablet. (NYTimes) Live Nation…
By Douglas A. McIntyre Steve Jobs plans to bring new hope to old media with his tablet device. It will work well as a web-searching tool, but in addition it will almost…
Douglas A. McIntyre The Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) tablet computer is going to have an 10″ or 11″ screen, a touchpad key board, the ability to connect to WiFi or 3G networks to reach the internet. It…
Reuters: Hedge fund Loch Capital is losing customers because of ties to a witness in the Galleon case. Reuters: China GDP grew 10.7% in the fourth quarter. Reuters: Obama will target excessive…
Updated throughout the day. The hedge fund industry brought in $4.6 billion in December (Eurekahedge) Barclays (NYSE:BCS) may face a $27 billion deficit (Credit Suisse). JPMorgan (NYSE:JPM) is in exclusive talks to buy…
Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) App Store brought in $2.5 billion last year according to Gartner. The company accounted for 99% of all mobile application sales in 2009. Apple keeps 90% of that revenue. Gartner predicts…
Douglas A. McIntyre Glassdoor keeps tabs on employee impressions of management and work conditions at major companies. The survey site has more than one million users who review over 70,000 firms. These companies represent all industries, 100% of…
Reuters: Kraft (NYSE:KFT) has a deal to buy Cadbury (NYSE:CBY) for about $19 billion. Reuters: China says Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) and other foreign firms must respect its laws. Reuters: JAL is going bankrupt.
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Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) said it will launch a new product at an event scheduled for January 27. Watch the shares drop 10% if it is not the anticipated tablet computer and 15% if…
Douglas A. McIntyre This week’s Unusual Suspects are not just about earnings season, despite the deluge and onslaught we are about to see. We have a watch for events this week in shares of Acorda…
There was one issue which concerned us the most after Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) entered the smartphone market, and that was that this might create a race to zero via an old-fashioned…
An adage in options trading is that the closest and most active strike prices tend to act as magnets that draw share prices that direction as options expiration date gets closer and…
