Yahoo.comNew Comscore data shows the extent to which Facebook and Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) have become internet destinations while portals Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) and Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) MSN lose ground. The social network…
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) may have an interest in buying Research In Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) (WSJ) Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) may have an interest in buying RIM (Reuters) China hackers…
Prosecutors raid Olympus to gain data in a probe of the accounting scandal at the company. (Reuters) Bank of Japan says it will hold to current policies as the economy in the…
Update: The Wall Street Journal reports that Nokia (NYSE: NOK) and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MFST) may also have consider a join bid. The rumors that a company would offer to buy Canadian smartphone pioneer…
Remarks made over the weekend by Nokia Corp. (NYSE: NOK) CEO Steven Elop appear to quell any notion that the company plans to enter the tablet market any time soon. The company…
Amazon.com is the largest e-commerce retailer in the world. In the third quarter of this year the company’s net sales increased 44% to $10.88 billion, compared with $7.56 billion in the third…
Douglas A. McIntyre Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) is still one of the most revered companies in America, and in the world. Since Steve Jobs has passed away there has been a bit less enthusiasm for…
Olympus may hire its former CEO, Michael Woodford, in the midst of an accounting scandal. (Reuters) Foreign investment in China drops for the first time in 28 months. (Reuters) Holiday sales continue…
Andrea Jung was forced out as CEO of Avon Products (NYSE: AVP) after years of poor financial performance at the company. The CEO of Best Buy (NYSE: BBY), Brian Dunn, should be the…
Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) has said the its Kindle Fire is the best-selling item on its web site and it wants to give customers a chance to order the device as close to…
The Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) Kindle Fire, flagship of the e-commerce sites holiday products may have design flaws. Some of the products have been returned to Amazon. One of the issues has to…
Douglas A. McIntyre Worries about the EU solution to the sovereign debt crisis rise. (Reuters) U.S. firms will be asked to disclose relationships with Syria and Iran. (FT) Many jobless Americans face cut off of benefits at…
E-Commerce activity continued to surge, and outpace bricks-and-mortar sales. Comscore reported holiday season retail e-commerce spending for the first 39 days of the November – December 2011 holiday season. For the holiday…
A burst of interest in the Nook tablets from Barnes & Noble Inc. (NYSE: BKS) is causing the company to increase orders on its manufacturers. That’s good news for B&N, but even…
Many American companies have done incredibly well this year. A number posted extraordinary financial results in 2011. Others have launched products that revolutionized markets. Of course, many big public corporations also did…
