8:58pm ET
Technology
Amazon Makes Nothing On New Kindle Fire
Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) makes no money on its new Kindle Fire tablet PC. That may be a sign that it will seek to take market share from Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) and hope…
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6:17am ET
Media
Media Digest (9/30/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg
The federal government begins to probe the accounting of several Chinese companies. (Reuters)EU markets to decline more this quarter than in any other since 2008. (Reuters)Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) to charge…
8:22am ET
Investing
Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (AMD, AMZN, BX, CAH, CLS, DRQ, ITMN, JBL, KKR, OKS, VLO)
Jon OggThese are some of this Thursday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen having an impact from Wall Street research calls.Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NYSE: AMD) Cut to Underperform at BofA/ML;…
6:18am ET
Media
Media Digest (9/29/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg
Angela Merkel faces a test: will her own party support money being used for the bailout of Greece? (Reuters)Bernanke says the Fed may have to act if inflation falls below targets. (Reuters)Amazon.com…
11:40am ET
Retail
Amazon’s New Kindle Touch: iPad Killer or Bookstore Killer? (AMZN, AAPL, BKS)
Many investors of Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) may be worried that today marked the official launch notice of the new Kindle Touch and Kindle Fire from Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN). It is more…
8:49am ET
Investing
Top Active Trader Alert Stocks (AMZN, AVGO, CHK, CMTL, FDO, JBL)
Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Wednesday morning. We are tracking news and moves in shares of Amazon, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN), Avago Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ: AVGO), Chesapeake Energy Corporation…
6:20am ET
Media
Media Digest (9/28/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg
IPOs of Citic Securities and Great Wall Motor struggle, a sign that offerings from China are in trouble. (Reuters)The unresolved Greece problem continues to damage markets. (Reuters)Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) may price its…
6:16am ET
Media
Media Digest (9/27/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg
World stocks rise on the hope that the eurozone will address its financial problems. (Reuters)Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) shares fall because of rumors that iPad production is low. (Reuters)Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE:…
12:31pm ET
Investing
America’s Most Dysfunctional Boards
Some boards of directors of America’s largest public companies have shown such poor judgment guiding their troubled corporations that they have long stopped being effective. Just recently, the misguided actions of the…
9:05am ET
Consumer Electronics
Apple Kills Quarter of iPad 2 Orders (IT, AAPL, JPM, AMZN, RIM, HPQ, DELL, GOOG, HNHPF, SSNLF)
Just last week we noted a new study from the Gartner Group Inc. (NYSE: IT) that the iPad from Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) looked set to dominate the tablet market until at…
7:34am ET
Investing
Today’s Best Market Rumors (9/26/2011) Groupon IPO, Netflix And Dreamworks
Updated throughout the dayNetflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) has a deal to stream Dreamworks movies (NYT)Groupon no longer has a date for its IPO (WSJ)Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) will release a tablet PC to compete…
6:20am ET
Media
Media Digest (9/26/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg
Europe begins to more aggressively look for problems to its debt crisis as pressure from the rest of the world grows. (Reuters)Amazon.com’s (NASDAQ: AMZN) new tablet PC may be a serious challenge…
11:18am ET
Investing
Dish Network Jumps into Streaming Video (DISH, NFLX, AMZN, WMT, BBY, CMCSA, NWS, DIS)
Last April Dish Network Corp. (NASDAQ: DISH) paid $320 million to acquire Blockbuster Inc. out of bankruptcy. Speculation at the time suggested that Dish would enter the streaming video and DVD-by-mail market…
10:40am ET
Investing
Apple Will Continue to Rule Tablet Market (AAPL, IT, RIMM, HPQ, DELL, NOK, SSNLF, MSFT, GOOG, AMZN)
Just in case anyone believed that Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) was being seriously threatened by competitors to its iPad tablet, that belief can probably be put to rest for a few years.…
1:53pm ET
Media
Traffic Trends For Top 50 Web Sites (SCOR, GOOG, YHOO, MSFT, AOL, AMZN, EBAY, WMT, TGT, NYT, GCI, WPO, NFLX)
Web site visitors didn’t set any records last month, but they also didn’t lose any ground. Among the leading sites, some had small gains and others had small losses. Overall though, more…