ThinkstockIf you were looking for confirmation that sales of personal computers were weak during the holidays, look no further. Gartner has released its data, which said that global PC shipments declined by 4.9%…
ThinkstockAfter a solid year for information technology spending by major corporations in 2012, companies surveyed by analysts at UBS A.G. (NYSE: UBS) suggest that spending will decline in 2013. In fact estimates have dropped…
courtesy of Apple Inc.Each January, 24/7 Wall St. forecasts the publicly traded U.S. companies that will have the highest profits in the year ahead. This year, Apple almost certainly will keep first place,…
courtesy Dell Inc.The plans for Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ) and Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) to revive their fortunes were based, and still are to some extent, on a move into IT consulting…
courtesy of MicrosoftMicrosoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) was supposed to have a big game-changer on its hands with Windows 8. Maybe you can blame Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) or maybe you can blame…
Late Wednesday, Jefferies Group Inc. (NYSE: JEF) added three new domestic names to its Global Conviction buy list. Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL), Celanese Corp. (NYSE: CE) and HMS Holdings Corp. (NASDAQ: HMSY) were…
thinkstockWe have tracked the key short interest changes as of December 14th in the following large cap stocks: General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE), Nokia Corp. (NYSE: NOK), Bank of America Corp. (NYSE:…
courtesy of Groupon Inc.A number of large public company CEOs have come under fire in the past year because of the extremely poor financial results of the public corporations they run. Some,…
courtesy of DellDell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) has been kicked out of the S&P 100. The PC company has struggled to remain relevant, and successful, for years. Perhaps Standard & Poor’s finally has acknowledged that…
Trey Thoelcke Frank Golhen, via Wikimedia CommonsU.K. Nears Recession Add the United Kingdom to the long line of countries that have gotten into more economic trouble that expected. The Office for National Statistics cut…
courtesy Dell Inc.At its Dell World conference in Austin today, Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) confirmed that the company is no longer in the smartphone business. At least smartphones using the Android operating…
courtesy of AppleMonitor shipments for notebook PCs have been dropping for some time now, and prices have tagged along with the decline. High-definition 14- and 15.6-inch displays are selling for less than…
courtesy of AppleIn interview comments yesterday, Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) CEO Tim Cook indicated that Apple would fire-up at least one U.S. manufacturing line next year. A natural candidate to do the…
U.S. equity markets opened higher this morning as last Friday’s Moody’s downgrade of the European Stability Mechanism and the European Financial Stability Fund were overridden by a PMI reading for the eurozone…
The stock market is up Monday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average up 0.03%, the Nasdaq up 0.40% and the S&P 500 up 0.19%. Today’s biggest winners both received upgrades by prominent investment banks,…
