What’s Important in the Financial World (1/24/2013)
ThinkstockDreamliner Stays Grounded There is no hope in sight for Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) as it tries to get its 787 Dreamliner flagship back in the air. Japanese investigators say that an…
ThinkstockDreamliner Stays Grounded There is no hope in sight for Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) as it tries to get its 787 Dreamliner flagship back in the air. Japanese investigators say that an…
courtesy of YouTubeEarly sales of the Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone 5 in China are strong. (Reuters) American International Group Inc. (NYSE: AIG) will raise $6.5 billion through the sale of AIA. (Reuters) Infosys…
U.S. equity markets opened mixed this morning following a decision by the European Central Bank to leave its interest rates unchanged (more coverage here). Third-quarter eurozone GDP was in line with the…
ThinkstockAkamai Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM) and AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) this morning announced an alliance between the two companies to offer “a global suite of content delivery network (CDN) solutions to companies.”…
The stock market is up Thursday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average up 0.15%, the Nasdaq up 0.53% and the S&P 500 up 0.18%. Today’s winners include an asset management firm getting…
ThinkstockWhen any industry grows at a breathtaking speed, there are always big winners and big losers. Motorola and Nokia Corp. (NYSE: NOK) once dominated handset sales, now that world belongs to Samsung…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen in Wall St. research calls this Thursday. Akamai Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM) raised to Outperform at Oppenheimer and raised…
Analyst calls often have many hidden gems in them, and sometimes the most interesting thing to take from these calls is what was not said. Credit Suisse came out this Tuesday with…
Internet jobs site Glassdoor has released its 2012 list of the 25 U.S. companies that offer the best career opportunities. The company also produces a list of the best places to work…
The three major US stock indexes opened higher this morning following European Central Bank president Mario Draghi’s promise to “do whatever it takes to preserve the euro” (our coverage here). What he…
These are the 24/7 Wall St. unusual after-hours stocks on the move. Most of the movers are on earnings news. Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM) loved its earnings report as shares are…
The three major US stock indexes opened mixed this morning with the Nasdaq Composite slightly negative on an unexpectedly weak earnings report from Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) (more coverage here). A weak…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall St. research calls this Tuesday morning. Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM) started as Outperform at William Blair.…
Canaccord Genuity is keying in on what we saw yesterday as a threat to content delivery network players. Its telecom analyst Greg Miller has shown that the new effort from Netflix, Inc.…
Yesterday’s announcement from Netflix Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) that the company would its own content delivery network (CDN) based on the Open Connect standard. White-box provider Intequus will build the servers which will…