Wednesday is much more than Halloween and it is more than the FOMC announcement date. We have an event that has been perhaps more influential to many key stocks than the upcoming…
Any business where Cisco (CSCO) and Intel (INTC) are on the same side of the ball is going to get a lot of momentum. And, yesterday Cisco bought WiMax equipment company Navini…
According to Reuters, shares in Amazon (AMZN) dropped on concerns about margins in it latest earnings. Reuters writes that RIM (RIMM) will start to market its Blackberry in China. Reuters reports that…
The New York Times was good enough to run a list of the world’s 20 most valuable companies ranked by market cap in 1989, 1999, and 2007. Japan owned the list in…
Microsoft (MSFT) said it expects its unified communications product — the company’s effort to link e-mail, instant messaging and phone systems over Internet networks — to become one of the fastest-growing segments…
Below is the short interest for selected stocks traded on the Nasdaq. The figures are as of September 28 and compare to numbers as of September 14, 2007. Largest Short Positions Company …
According to Reuters, UBS (UBS) will write-off $3.4 billion, another victim of the credit crunch. Reuters writes that the Teamsters and UPS (UPS) have come to a new contract. Reuters writes that…
As quarters come to an end, with today being the quarter end, we usually like to review the top hi-flyers, usually in tech or energy of late, but we like to look…
3Com did confirm the reports of a $2.2 Billion buyout from Bain and Huawei this morning at $5.30 per share. Why $5.30? It wasn’t based on the stellar valuation nor was the…
Short interest in several large Nasdaq traded companies fell sharply in September. The figures are calculated as of September 14 and are compared to numbers from August 15, 2007. Short interest in…
Cisco Systems (NASDAQ:CSCO) has announced a definitive agreement to acquire Germantown, MD-based Cognio, Inc., a company involved in wireless spectrum analysis and management for wireless networks. Cognio’s spectrum technology enhances performance, reliability…
Douglas A. McIntyre Jim Cramer continued his ‘fantasy football draft methodology’ to compile a stock portfolio that can survive through a coming recession. He wants a stock that can deliver consistent and long-term growth for…
In corporate America there are many developments and deployments that never make it public because they are minor events to the company that day. But sometimes even a slight change in technology…
Douglas A. McIntyre Wall St. would think that providing enterprise solutions and infrastructure to the world’s largest telecom suppliers would be a good business. Nortel (NT) and Alcatel-Lucent (ALU) appear to have proved that wrong.…
Douglas A. McIntyre An interesting thing is going on in PDA-land and Phoneland this week. Palm Inc. (NASDAQ:PALM) already disclosed that it is canning its Foleo offering. But another key development that has received little…