5:42am ET
Media
The Advent Of Mobile TV
Like visions of sugar plums dancing in their heads, the chiefs of the Hollywood studios and their bosses at the major media conglomerates want to extend the profits that they make on…
AAPL Coverage Page 624
6:59am ET
Investing
Top 2010 Stock Picks from… Everyone (AAPL, GE, CMCSA, MRVL, BIDU, DRYS, POT, LVLT, C, CVX, HPQ, KBH)
2009 is over, for better or worse. Now it is time to look ahead. We wanted to look for the best top stock picks for 2010 from our partners and from key…
8:19am ET
Investing
Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (AAPL, ARCL, GILD, GTEC, MRVL, NVDA)
This Wednesday is looking thinner than normal trading days for analyst upgrades and downgrades seen in Wall Street research calls. Here are today’s top calls: Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) target was raised…
5:14am ET
Telecom & Wireless
Hackers To Hit Apple iPhone, Google Android Handsets Next Year
Roel Schouwenberg of Kaspersky Lab Americas made a number of either intemperate or prescient comments to USA Today. It may take a year to find out if he is a fool or a profit.…
4:56am ET
Retail
Neiman Marcus And Sears Crushed In New E-Commerce Survey
Customer satisfaction with the e-commerce operations at Neiman Marcus and Sears (NASDAQ:SHLD) was particularly bad this shopping season based on research covering the 40 largest US retailers based on internet revenue. The poll results come from…
11:30am ET
Telecom & Wireless
Nokia Intensifies Patent Fight Against Apple (NOK, AAPL)
The patent case between Nokia Corp. (NYSE: NOK) and Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) is not new. But news this morning on the direction which Nokia is willing to take is a move…
9:01am ET
Investing
Top Day Trader Alerts (FNM, FRE, BNVI, TRMS, VVUS, AAPL)
These are this Tuesday’s top day trader and active trader alerts. We have detailed links over on each story for more detail and analysis at VSInvestor.com: Fannie Mae (NYSE: FNM) and Freddie…
Douglas A. McIntyre 8:27am ET
Investing
Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (AMZN, AMCS, AAPL, CZZ, GS, JEF, MS, UNH)
These are this Tuesday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in a thin week of coverage and Wall Street research calls: Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) Reiterated Outperform but target raised to…
5:13am ET
Telecom & Wireless
A New Threat To Cell Phone Security From An Old Source—The Hacker
Nothing stays safe forever, at least not in the world of information technology and digital communication. Hackers are able to break into sophisticated bank security systems and steal money. Talented coders recently…
4:22am ET
Investing
Short Sellers Mob Big Banks And Telecoms (BAC)(C)(VZ)(T)
Short sellers took huge positions in major banks and telecom companies in the two-week period ending December 15. The short interest in Citigroup (NYSE:C) rose 30% to 281 million ahead of the bank…
4:00am ET
Media
Media Digest 12/29/2009 Reuters, WSJ, NYTime, FT, Bloomberg
Reuters: GM is offering huge incentives to sell its inventory of Pontiacs and Saturns. Reuters: Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS) will overhaul the pay of senior management. Reuters: The departing AIG (NYSE:AIG) general counsel will…
7:14pm ET
Investing
Apple: When Speculators Rule Over Investors (AAPL)
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) closed at another new all-time high today of $211.61 and $213.95 on an intra-day basis. What is actually far more important than reports of a note from…
Douglas A. McIntyre 11:22am ET
Investing
Mixed Tech-Leader Short Selling, Only Partial Tell (AAPL, AMZN, CSCO, MSFT, GOOG, YHOO, INTC, ORCL, QCOM, RIMM, QQQQ)
We have seen what appears to be a mixed bag of shares listed in the short interest of the most active NASDAQ tech stocks traded day in and day out. Apple Inc.…
8:47am ET
Investing
Top Day Trader Alerts (AAPL, AMCS, IBM, CGEN, UAUA, FNM, FRE, VICL)
We have compiled Monday’s top pre-market day trader and active trader alert stocks. There is a link to each story for more detail and analysis at VSInvestor.com: Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) is…
2:03pm ET
Media
The Recession-Proof Movie Industry
Most of old media is being slowly euthanized by the shift in the way consumers get content since the beginning of the recession. Magazines, newspapers, and radio are at the top of list of sectors that are…