ThinkstockGerman Manufacturing Dwindles In a sign that Germany is on the cusp of a recession that would harm the overall recovery of the European Union, its manufacturing sector suffered a severe blow.…
ThinkstockYahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) today announced the appointment of Max Levchin to its board of directors, effective immediately. Two other board members, David Kenny and Brad Smith, are leaving the board, also…
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 Apple Inc.The owners of Apple Inc.’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone 5 are rejoicing. The awful map product made by Apple for its devices can now be replaced by the one from…
ThinkstockEurope’s Central Banking Authority Europe finally has a central banking authority, a move that many politicians and economists believe will help pull the region out of its financial crisis. It is hard…
thinkstockThe Federal Reserve links bond buying to unemployment rates. (Reuters) The European Central Bank will have new authority over Europe’s banks. (Reuters) The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, which said it…
ThinkstockInsider selling is starting to get massive before year-end when higher capital gains taxes will kick in. We continue to expect that corporate insiders, venture backers, private equity backers, and founders will…
ThinkstockTablet devices like the iPad from Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL), the Nexus 7 and Nexus 10 from Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG), the Kindle Fire from Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN), and the Galaxy…
courtesy of AppleIn 2012, shipments of tablet devices is expected to rise by 75% while shipments of notebook PCs are slated to rise just 2% and decline by 28% for mini-notebooks. We…
ThinkstockGoogle Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) dominates Internet search. When comScore (NASDAQ: SCOR) posted its October U.S. search market numbers, Google had a whopping 66.7% of the total market share. What if Google decides that…
Guillaume Paumier / Wikimedia Commons, CC-BY-3.0Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) was the No. 1 company on the Glassdoor Employees’ Choice Awards, a list of the 50 Best Places to Work for 2013. This…
thinkstockThe initial public offering of SolarCity Corporation is expected to price this week. It could price as soon as Tuesday night. What is interesting is that this offering could actually really offer a…
Wikimedia CommonsGoogle Inc.’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) email product — Gmail — crashed for users across part of the world. That apparently caused the crash of a number of Google Chrome browsers as well.…
U.S. equity markets opened lower this morning, probably as a reaction to the news that Italy’s prime minister has said that he will resign after a new budget is agreed to (more…
thinkstockChina posts weak exports numbers, a sign that its economic improvement is uneven. (Reuters) Investors say they will sell about $39 billion in Greek debt back to the government. (Reuters) Yahoo! Inc.…
