These are some of this Friday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research notes: Allied Irish Banks plc (NYSE: AIB) Cut to Sell at Societe Generale. Amazon.com, Inc.…
You probably already know now that Cisco Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO) has promised to pay a dividend of 1.5 to 2% initially for 2011. After a multi-year period of dead performance, this…
Cisco Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO) has finally buckled to pressure to return capital to shareholders. While we did not get the promise of a one-time massive dividend we outlined as a possibility,…
WSJ: The CEO of Nokia (NYSE: NOK) left the company. Reuters: BP plc (NYSE: BP) will delay Q3 results as it accounts for costs of the oil spill. Reuters: The SEC has…
Ebay announced today that Chancellor William B. Chandler III of the Delaware Court of Chancery ruled in the company’s favor in a shareholder suit filed against Craigslist, and its majority shareholders Jim…
Douglas A. McIntyre eBay Inc. (NASDAQ: EBAY) does not deserve what is happening to it, or at least it does not deserve the secondary and tertiary damage that could be caused by those who are…
Jon C. Ogg The media is full or rumors that Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) could by Skype. Cisco has a history or M&A, and Skype would fit with its move into consumer voice and video communications.…
Patent wars in technology are nothing new. Sometimes they are promising, sometimes they are just noise-making events. Paul Allen’s Interval Licensing LLC has filed a complaint today in the U.S. District Court…
Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) may have a new application for Gmail that is another one of those things that won’t make the company that much more money. Still, it is going to…
Many stocks are on the move. Some are repeat performers of yesterday and some are new. The top day trader and active trader alerts so far in the pre-market are in Avago…
Almost everyone in the world knows about Skype. After eBay Inc. (NASDAQ: EBAY) sold off a majority stake to a private equity group, the company had been valued at roughly $2.75 billion. …
Jon C. Ogg Twitter has, by most estimates, 100 million members, which makes it one of the largest social networks in the world. All major media companies are on Twitter and some have more than…
Reuters: BP plc (NYSE: BP) defended its CEO as it considered new options to kill the well. Reuters: The Senate voted to restore jobless benefits. Reuters: Obama’s budget review may trim the…
eBay Inc. (NASDAQ: EBAY) is finding that growth has peaked in being an online auction monopoly. The online auction giant reported earnings of $0.40 EPS gross on $2.22 billion in revenues. On…
Jon C. Ogg Earnings season is in full swing and many traders’ favorite technology stocks are reporting this week. We have compiled previews and added in color for traders on Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL), Juniper…
