According to Reuters, Cisco (CSCO) announced quarter profits and a forecast that topped expectations. Reuters writes that Vodafone (VOD) will keeps its 45% of Verizon Wireless. The Wall Street Journal writes that…
Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CSCO) has boosted its longer-term growth expectations, and shares are now up 6% in after-hours as Chambers is finishing up his comments. Obviously the company can make other comments,…
Douglas A. McIntyre The networking behemoth posted $0.36 EPS on $9.43 Billion in revenues. First Call estimates were $0.35 EPS and $9.29 Billion revenues. Unfortunately we don’t get guidance out of Chambers & Co. until…
Douglas A. McIntyre According to Reuters, Bear Stearns (BSC) has several potential buyers including JP Morgan (JPM) and Bank of America (BAC) Reuters writes that a court overturned a patent infringement award won by Alcatel-Lucent…
Tomorrow is going to be an interesting day after a massive rally Monday. The market is going to be looking to the FOMC for soem stability on the economic outlook and hope…
Douglas A. McIntyre Next week, on August 7, Cisco Systems (NASDAQ:CSCO) will post earnings for its quarter and fiscal year, and this will be the highlight of tech stocks for the week. Estimates from First…
Douglas A. McIntyre The upcoming partial IPO of VMware (NYSE:VMW) from EMC Corp. (NYSE:EMC) has been one of great interest, which almost goes without saying. Terms are now set and the IPO roadshow has begun. …
On today’s video from TheStreet.com, Cramer said there is definitive value on the land that has been optioned by homebuilders. All of those options from the last 3 years were bad, but…
Usually a $5 Billion add-on to a share buyback plan is a good thing for shareholders, or at least they take it that way. Last night Cisco Systems announced that its board…
Douglas A. McIntyre If an Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) investment of $200+ million for a 2.5% stake into VMware wasn’t good enough, EMC Corp.’s (NYSE:EMC) soon to be spin-off is getting a new investor: enter Cisco Sytems…
Below is the short interest for key Nasdaq stocks for July, The figures compare July 13 with June 15. 2007. Company Short…
It appears that private equity interests are about to take 3Com (COMS) off the market. Silver Lake Partners and Bain Capital have apparently stopped by. As The Wall Street Journal points out:…
According to Reuters, the group lead by RBS has raised its bid for ABN Amro (ABN) by increasing the cash component of the offer. Reuters writes that Ford (F) is now cosidering…
According to Reuters, private equity firms are going to start to target big miners like Alcoa (AA). Reuters writes that Rupert Murdoch’s BSkyB added 90,000 subscribers over the last quarter. Reuters writes…
There was a time when cable operators picked a box, generally from Motorola (MOT) or the Scientific Atlanta division of Cisco (CSCO). They rented the device out to customers and probably made…