Most people who are in business put making a profit above maintaining a good image. They would like their customers to think well of them because it drives sales. But, being a…
Over the last few years, the reporting of revenue from commercial music sales has been a "good news, bad news" deal. Digital downloads of albums and songs keep rising. CD sales keep…
Douglas A. McIntyre No one seems to have liked that way SEC chief Christopher Cox handled his job during the financial crisis. Congress thought he should have done more to keep banks and investment houses…
There are rumors going around that Dell (DELL) will fire its chief of operations and its head of marketing. The PC firm’s turnaround is not going so well. The answer to most…
Because of the number of rumors about the health of Apple (AAPL) CEO Steve Jobs, it is hard to know which has any validity. Jobs has suffered from islet cell neuroendocrine tumor…
Douglas A. McIntyre A Bloomberg review of the S&P 500 stocks shows that the fourth quarter of 2008 will probably be the sixth quarter of declining earnings. According to the news service, "Fourth-quarter profit at…
Sir Howard Stringer’s appointment in 2005 as Sony’s CEO was meant help turn the company into what it used to be–Apple (AAPL) based in Tokyo and not Cupertino. With products like the…
If investors had a notion that short sellers were going to stay in big financials, they were wrong. Short interest in the weakest companies in the sector dropped. Shares short in Citigroup…
The good news is that PC sales are not dead if the latest iSuppli data is accurate. But there are some trends in which are going to revolutionize the PC industry. We…
Palm, Inc. (NASDAQ: PALM) has managed to secure an additional investment from Elevation Partners for $100 million. It is easy to understand why Palm would want the investment, but we’d note that…
Douglas A. McIntyre Research in Motion Ltd. (NASDAQ: RIMM) is set to report earnings at the close today. The Blackberry smartphone maker is expected to post earnings (from First Call, Thomson Reuters) at $0.83 EPS…
Douglas A. McIntyre These are some of the top pre-market analyst downgrades or cautious calls seen from Wall Street early this Thursday morning with more than two hours to the open: Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) Started…
According to Reuters, Chrysler will idle its plant for a month to cut inventory and costs. Reuters reports that the SEC is under fire over the Madoff investigation. Reuters reports that Obama…
Rumors from Apple (AAPL) headquarters in Cupertino that Steve Jobs is alive and well are keeping the company’s shares well above their multi-year low of $79.14 hit a few weeks ago. Shares…
Douglas A. McIntyre It is getting rather thin in analyst coverage, but these are the top ten analyst upgrades and downgrades we have seen this Wednesday morning: ActivIdentity (NASDAQ: ACTI) Started as Buy at Stanford…
