courtesy of Time WarnerIf most of Time Inc., the world’s largest and most famous magazine publisher, may be sold, then so can any other pillar of old media. Rumors are that relatively…
courtesy of Groupon Inc.Groupon Inc. (NASDAQ: GRPN) is a troubled company under questionable leadership where IPO investors have been crushed. Long gone are the days of a $6 billion or $7 billion…
Wikimedia CommonsOne of the worst-kept secrets in the technology world was finally confirmed today. Intel Corp. (NASDAQ: INTC) is building an Internet TV set-top box that it says will launch by the…
courtesy of BlackBerryWhen Research In Motion unveiled its long-delayed BlackBerry 10, it also announced it was changing its name to BlackBerry (NASDAQ: BBRY). CEO Thorsten Heins argued that the new name reflects…
Google’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) chairman Eric Schmidt may sell up to $2.5 billion of his shares, although the action has been overblown by the press. The Rule 10b5-1 plan allows him to make…
Douglas A. McIntyre ThinkstockThe Motorola unit of Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) lost 13 patent claims it had lodged against Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) way back in 2010 when Motorola was still an independent company. The…
Outerwall Inc.When Coinstar Inc. (NASDAQ: CSTR) reported earnings last night, the owner of the Redbox DVD-rental machines beat earnings estimates by 27%, but net income was down by the same amount for…
thinkstockSoutheastern Asset Management, Dell’s (NASDAQ: DELL) largest shareholder, is unhappy with the price of the LBO. (Reuters) The Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) 787 has been approved for test flights. (Reuters) BMW says…
U.S. equity markets opened flat this morning, largely due to a slew of data from Europe that essentially cancelled any good news with an equal dollop of bad. U.S. unemployment data came…
Jon OggThese are some of this Thursday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen from Wall St. research calls. AbbVie Inc. (NYSE: ABBV) started as Neutral at Credit Suisse. Akamai Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ:…
courtesy of Google Inc.Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) made another in a series of decisions that have pushed its shares higher for months. It has formed an advertising deal with Google Inc. (NASDAQ:…
courtesy of NetflixBrief government spending cuts brought on by disagreements in Congress could badly hurt the economy. (Reuters) Earnings at Time Warner Inc. (NYSE: TWX) and News Corp. (NASDAQ: NWSA) are fueled…
courtesy of Apple Inc.The cannibalization of the PC market caused by the overwhelming popularity of tablet devices might be even greater than you think. According to the latest data from analyst firm…
courtesy of Nokia Corp.In a battle that has really just been joined for the third best-selling smartphone platform, Windows Phone from Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) has wrestled away third place from the…
ThinkstockHackers have scored another victory in a series that has extended from Google Inc.’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) China site, to the New York Times Co. (NYSE: NYT) site, to The Wall Street Journal…
