Everyone loves Warren Buffett of Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.B) and the “never be evil” management of Google. Citigroup (C), Goldman Sachs (GS), and the other large firms on Wall St. are among the…
Reuters: US Census hiring will life payrolls. Reuters: The US will impose new airport security measures. Reuters: The head of China will visit the US and the issue of the yuan may…
Reuters: Factories in China and India upped production last month. Reuters: Asian stocks hit and 11 month high. Reuters: General Growth filed a plan to exit bankruptcy. Reuters: Reviews praised the Apple…
Twitter has, by most estimates, 75 million visitors a month, which makes it one of the largest social networks in the world. All major media companies are on Twitter and some have…
Walmart.com typically falls into the top 20 most visited sites in the US as measured by Comscore, just behind online e-commerce giant Amazon.com (AMZN). Walmart has launched initiatives to increase its traffic including cut-rate…
Twitter has, by most estimates, 75 million visitors a month, which makes it one of the largest social networks in the world. All major media companies are on Twitter and some have…
Research that tries to forecast consumers’ buying plans is notoriously inaccurate. It is hard to determine what someone will buy if they have not seen it. Purchase intent based on brand can be…
Blockbuster (BBI), the world’s largest movie rental chain, has all sorts of problems. It is nearly insolvent. Its model of renting DVDs from stores has been largely bypassed by online operations such as…
On the tenth anniversary of the tech bubble of 2000, short sellers aggressively dropped their bets against hardware, software and internet companies. Figures are from February 28. The short interest in Apple…
The Apple (AAPL) iPad tablet computer looks like it will launch into a market where it has no rivals. The Amazon (AMZN) Kindle is not a PC at all. It is underpowered and has…
The Toyota brand may be much more resilient than most experts would ever have imagined. That is bad new for its primary competitors in the US market–GM, Ford (F), Chrysler, Honda (HMC),…
The Holy Grail of consumer electronics devices is one that would combine the best features of the Apple (AAPL) iPad, iPod, and iPhone. Sony (SNE) means to introduce products to challenge the…
The 52-week low search is a common tool used by value investors, momentum investors, growth investors, and traders in various price screens to help decide when to a buy or sell a…
E-reader marketers like Amazon (AMZN) and Barnes & Noble (BKS) have caught a break just before Apple comes to market with its iPad table computer. The iPad, with its 10.1″ screen, touchpad operation,…
Most of the press Nintendo, the world’s No.1 video game console company, gets is for its Wii machine which has kept a lead in unit sales over the Microsoft (MSFT) Xbox 360 and Sony…
