By Douglas A. McIntyre There is a new product on the home page of Amazon.com (NYSE:AMZN). PC users can now download a free version of Kindle software which allows Kindle users to…
Douglas A. McIntyre By Douglas A. McIntyre The S&P 500 index is so far having a fine year, up a bit more than 20%. But several big-company stocks in the index have doubled, or better,…
The recovery is on and mergers are happening, yet the technology sector has been slow to make deals. Despite some deals already having taken place from the technology giants and that $260…
These are this morning’s top 10 analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls: Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) Raised to Outperform at Bernstein and target raised from $125 to $160.…
Wal-Mart (NYSE:WMT) is not satisfied challenging rivals like Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) and Target (NYSE:TGT) in the e-book and toy businesses. Its program to take the lion’s share of the modest number of consumers…
Reuters: The Wall St. insider trading probe lead to another 14 arrests. Reuters: Fannie Mae (NYSE:FNM) lost $19 billion and asked Treasury for money. Reuters: GM is readying its plans for Opel…
Cisco (NASDAQ:CSCO) may control most of the global router and enterprise video conferencing business, but it wants a bigger footprint in home video delivery. Silicon Valley’s biggest M&A machine has snapped up…
Wal-Mart (NYSE:WMT) becomes more aggressive in soliciting new customers and undercutting rivals as each week passes. It has the balance sheet and retail locations to do those things. The world’s largest retailer…
Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN), Target (NYSE:TGT), and Wal-Mart (NYSE:WMT) are apparently sharply limiting the number of books customers can buy under their programs to sell popular titles at discount prices. Book publishers have already…
Reuters: The US economy is stable but risks remain according to Geithner. Reuters: JPMorgan (NYSE:JPM) raised concerns about Galleon in 2001. Reuters: As many as five million Americans have been infected with…
This morning you are getting the broader summaries without links to VSInvestor.com because of an issue at the hosting and publishing side that has caused a temporary outage. Here are brief morning…
These are this Friday morning’s top day trader and active trader alert stocks. We have more detailed data on price, volume, and historical data with links through to each story at VSInvestor.com:…
These are this Friday morning’s top 10 analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations we have seen from Wall Street’s research calls: Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) Raised to Outperform at FBR Capital (new target $130);…
The American Booksellers Association wants to know the motivation of Wal-Mart (NYSE:WMT), Target (NYSE:TGT), and Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) for selling popular books online for under $10. The industry group has asked The Justice Department…
The founders of the large web properties of Web 1.0 are all gone now save one. Yahoo!’s (NASDAQ:YHOO) chief Yahoo!s have very little to do with the company, although one of them,…