Twitter has, by most estimates, 100 million members, which makes it one of the largest social networks in the world. All major media companies are on Twitter and some have more than…
Reuters: The push for a stronger yuan has been modest at the G20 meetings. Reuters: A Goldman Sachs Group (NYSE: GS) Director Rajat Gupta told hedge fund billionaire Raj Rajaratnam about a $5 billion…
Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) was hitting new all-time highs today before earnings. The online e-tail giant posted $0.66 EPS on $7.13 billion in revenues versus $0.61 EPS and $6.87 billion in revenues. …
Jon C. Ogg Amazon (NASAQ: AMZN) announced that it would begin to sell its Kindle digital book reader in some Target (NYSE: TGT) stores. The news was viewed as a big “win” for Amazon, which has…
Target Corporation (NYSE: TGT) issued a press release after the closing bell today that is confirming what has gone around the rumor mill for some time. The Kindle ebook reader from Amazon.com…
Reuters: Google Inc.’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) password operation was hit by cyberattacks. Reuters: A leading political party in Germany is urging that the nation not deal with Goldman Sachs Group (NYSE: GS). Reuters: …
Earnings season is off to the races, even if Friday was a curve-ball for the markets and for reactions to earnings. Most of the big stocks are off on Wall Street scandal…
Reuters: An 11.9% growth in China during the first quarter has caused the government to look at tightening. Reuters: Toyota Motor Corporation (NYSE: TM) is testing all of its SUVs after problems…
Apple, Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL) has done too good a job marketing its iPad in the US. Or, it underestimated the number of units it would need to start to sell the product overseas.…
The VCR was supposed to ruin box office demand. Then Blockbuster (BBI) was the spoiler. Then came DVDs and high-def DVDs. That spawned NetFlix (NFLX) and kiosk operations like Redbox. What DVDs could not…
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…
