The debut of the new Microsoft (MSFT) search technology Bing was greeted by mostly positive reviews. The only legitimate complaint about the launch is that the world’s largest software company announced the…
It may be worth noting in passing that the comments of Dell’s (DELL) CFO during the company’s earnings call are bad news for any supplier of PC components and software. Brian Gladden…
Reuters: GM (GM) is close to bankruptcy after a deal with bondholders. Reuters: Banks are lobbying Washington on derivatives rules. Reuters: Dell’s (DELL) profits fell but beat estimates. Reuters: Iacocca will lose his…
Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) has just reported earnings of $0.24 EPS on $12.342 billion in revenue. Thomson Reuters had estimates at $0.23 EPS and $12.66 billion in sales. The main issue is…
Douglas A. McIntyre A drop in server sales is bad news for companies that build them including HP (HPQ), IBM (IBM), and Dell (DELL) and the firms that supply chips–AMD (AMD) and Intel (INTC). But,…
Reuters: Central bankers in the US and Europe are battling deflation and inflation simultaneously. Reuters: GM (GM) is close to bankruptcy but the fate of Opel is still open. Reuters: Citigroup (C)…
Micro-blogging platform Twitter has 32 million users, which is an increase from about 2 million a year ago, according to research mentioned in The Wall Street Journal. Some Internet measurement services show…
The West, particularly the US, has been able to hang onto its lead in technology innovation for the better part of thirty years while the manufacturing economy was driven by cost savings…
Dell (DELL) and HP (HPQ) already face a PC market which has been weakened by falling consumer and business spending. They have been flanked at the high end of the market by…
We are expecting the key earnings report from Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE: HPQ) after the close of trading today. This should mark the 30th DJIA component reporting earnings this season. Because of the…
Reuters: Twitter will release business tools in an attempt to make money. Reuters: A GM (GM) bankruptcy is seen as nearly inevitable. Reuters: American Express (AXP) will cut 4,000 jobs. Reuters: Obama…
Apple’s (AAPL) march to make the iPhone a viable alternative to the business-oriented RIM (RIMM) Blackberry and perhaps netbooks, which are posting surging sales, got a boost from software security companies. Symantec…
Several of the best-funded and most-publicized tech launches of the last ten years have ended in failure. Many large technology companies which had significant market share and product advantages in large industries…
Short sellers may have helped themselves by moving out of tech stocks just as shares in the sector began to make big advances. In the period ending. May 11, short interest in Microsoft (MSFT) fell…
According to data from the 24/7 Wall St.-The Channel Checkers survey, Dell (DELL) is doing extremely well in the consumer retail part of the PC industry. Over the past week, we surveyed…
