Media Digest 5/7/2009 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg
According to Reuters, GM (GM) is expected to post huge losses ahead of decisions about whether it will go into Chapter 11. Reuters reports that Obama is seeking budget savings due to…
According to Reuters, GM (GM) is expected to post huge losses ahead of decisions about whether it will go into Chapter 11. Reuters reports that Obama is seeking budget savings due to…
Twelve of the Fortune 500 CEOs are women. Just twelve. Over the next year, that number is likely to go up considerably because of a confluence of economic and financial factors that…
Oracle (ORCL) is in the server business now. So are IBM (IBM), Cisco (CSCO), and Hewlett-Packard (HPQ), but those four companies are fairly evenly matched. HP has annual revenue of more than…
Dell (DELL) has done a modest amount of what it could do to keep pace with its PC competition. It recently launched a high-end laptop, the Adamo, which mimics the look of…
Intel (INTC), which is the largest maker of PC and server chips in the world, announced earnings that beat analyst expectations. No one would have known that by looking at the collapse…
Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) has been branching out further into IT and web-based services in an effort to supplement and to get away from a model that is almost solely-dependent upon PC sales and…
An organization called Ethisphere has put out a list called “2009 World’s Most Ethical Companies” There is nothing wrong with the list, but the basis on which it was put together is…
Short sellers were figuring that after the bank rally late last month, banks shares were likely to give back some gains. That was working until Wells Fargo (WFC) reported that it would…
Apple (AAPL) is up today, but so is almost everything else. The company is getting special attention from investors because Credit Suisse upgraded its view of the firm’s prospects for the second…
Acer has decided that the way to get share from competitors and increase sales in a recession is to go down market and sell PCs at prices that will draw in even financially…
It appears that IBM (IBM) may be walking out on its deal to buy Sun Microsystems, or could just be playing hardball to lower the price it is willing to pay. In…
For a company which may have the most well-regarded premium brand in the world, Apple’s stock has been certainly been buffeted by unsatisfied investors. The shares have recovered some since the beginning…
New product launches are always tricky events. This is definitely the case with new chips and new processors for computing. Intel Corp. (NASDAQ: INTC) did confirm its new chipset offering for processors…
Dell (DELL) has a problem, or a series of problems. Its share of the PC and server businesses is under pressure from IBM (IBM), HP (HPQ), IBM (IBM), Sun (JAVA), Hitachi, and…
According to Reuters, the Obama financial reforms face a bumpy road. Reuters reports that the NY State Attorney General has subpoenaed AIG (AIG) over its CDS contracts. Reuters reports that Obama’s financial…