The three major U.S. stock indexes opened flat to higher this morning but picked up some buying steam after the first hour or so of trading. In Europe the president of Germany’s…
Jon OggThese are the top analyst calls of upgrades, downgrades and initiations we have seen from Wall St. research calls this Monday morning. Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) reiterated Buy with $264 target…
Ah, the fortunes of war. Shares of Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) are up about 77% over the last 12 months, and the stock posted a new all-time high earlier this week. Amazon.com…
Digital media research firm comScore Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR) has released its ranking of the top 50 U.S. web properties for July and the list is topped by the usual suspects. comScore counted…
It has been said several times, but for Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) shareholders, it cannot be said too often: the most important line in the Dell quarterly earnings statement is the one…
Either the market does not believe that Best Buy’s (NYSE: BBY) new CEO Hubert Joly, former head of hotel operator Carlson, can turn the consumer electronics retailer around, or fears have grown…
courtesy Barnes & Noble Inc.Barnes & Noble Inc. (NYSE: BKS) announced today that it will be bringing the Nook e-reader and the associated digital bookstore to the United Kingdom this autumn, the…
Trey Thoelcke No matter who gets control of Best Buy Co. Inc. (NYSE: BBY), its current board or founder Richard Schulze, the company faces brutal cuts in stores and personnel. There is no other…
The YouTube division of Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) drew 157 million unique viewers in July, nearly 3x the number of unique viewers of its nearest rival, Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB). The figures…
Shares of the maker of the ubiquitous Redbox video rental machines, Coinstar Inc. (NASDAQ: CSTR), have gotten a nice jolt today from a story in the New York Post that the company…
Best Buy Co. Inc. (NYSE: BBY) founder and CEO Richard Schulze continues to push his case to take Best Buy private. “You can easily test how real my proposal is by granting me permission to form a…
While the Samsung Electronics (OTC: SSNLF) and Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) continue to fight in court over mobile technology, both companies are preparing to release new products. We’ve already noted the coming…
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT) has received approval from Chinese regulators to boost its stake in e-commerce company Yihaodian to 51%, according to the Wall Street Journal. The financial details of the…
Groupon Inc. (NASDAQ: GRPN) may be the first of the large Web 2.0 companies that has gone public in the past year to lay off workers. At least it should be. The…
courtesy Barnes & Noble Inc.One of the first lessons business school students learn is that it is dangerous to lose money on each product a company sells with the hope that the…
