courtesy of USPSThe U.S. Postal Service (USPS) expects to ship 15 billion pieces of mail and packages between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Eve. USPS management claims this will be a record. The…
ThinkstockThe Twitter Inc. (NYSE: TWTR) initial public offering is almost upon us, and investors and analysts have fingers crossed for a smoother ride the Facebook Inc.’s (NASDAQ: FB) shaky IPO. As we…
Trey Thoelcke Courtesy of BlackBerryBlackBerry Ltd. (NASDAQ: BBRY) faces its last stand as a public company, while three or four financiers and corporations prepare bids for assets that some analysts think are worth nothing.…
Douglas A. McIntyre Courtesy J.C. Penney Co. Inc.; photo by Chris RupertThere is a growing school of thought that J.C. Penney Co. Inc. (NYSE: JCP) has started to walk out of the deep woods of…
courtesy of Apple Inc.Mobile games are by far the most popular apps in both number of downloads and revenue for mobile device makers. Game downloads for the iPhone and iPad from Apple…
Electronic Arts Inc.The excitement around the staggering dollars that hot new video releases bring in is soon to be joined by hot new video gaming platforms. Rumors have circulated around the devices,…
courtesy, Lenovo Group LimitedLenovo, the China-based PC company, released its new Yoga Tablet and claimed it would revolutionize the portable computer device world. That claim can be added to dozens of others…
Wikimedia CommonsAmazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) is a stock which has been on fire. Jeff Bezos has been able to do no wrong, even when the company posts a loss or has an…
Jon C. Ogg Healthcare.govSince the passage of the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, the launch has been riddled with problems. Accessing the sign-up page, poor Web design, untested and inept technology, and endless attacks on…
courtesy of MicrosoftAfter Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) reported a solid beat on fiscal first-quarter estimates after markets closed Thursday night, the company’s shares rose 7% and managed to keep the gains through…
http://www.amazon.com/amazon-coinsAnalysts and pundits (ahem!) are spending a good part of Friday morning extolling the virtues of the earnings report from Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) that was released after markets closed the previous…
Jon OggWe are knee-deep in corporate earnings reports and markets are surging to new all-time highs. Investors and traders alike are wondering which stocks to buy and which to sell in the…
By Steve Jurvetson CC-BY-2.0, via Wikimedia CommonsAmazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) reported its third quarter earnings after the close on Thursday. The online retailer of anything and everything has managed to get away…
Jon C. Ogg By Tkgd2007 at en.wikipedia , from Wikimedia CommonsFedEx Corp. (NYSE: FDX) expects December 2 to be its peak shipping day this holiday season. Most analysts believe this means e-commerce will rob bricks-and-mortar companies of sales.…
Adrian Pingstone, via Wikimedia CommonsPackage delivery service FedEx Corp. (NYSE: FDX) said on Wednesday that it expects a 13% increase in global shipments during its busiest week of the year. That would…
