July Air Travel Report U.S. Department of Transportation’s Air Travel Consumer Report for July is out. It grades, among other things, which airlines are most likely to have on-time arrivals. The data…
Market research firm BIA/Kelsey predicts that demand from U.S. consumers for online deals will boost the market to $3.6 billion by the end of this year. If so, the online deal market…
Meg Whitman’s plans to revive Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ) have become audacious. Various media report that she believes a more attractively designed family of PCs will bring back customers who have deserted…
Record iPhone 5 Preorders AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) claims the Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone 5 set a presale order record, supporting news over the weekend that even Apple itself is sold out. The…
A court in Munich has ruled that a patent on the so-called “rubber band” smartphone feature belongs to Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL). The feature allows iPhone users to scroll past the end…
In the age of health care reform, today’s news will sound ridiculous to just about any investor. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (NYSEMKT: DIA) is making a crazy change among its 30…
The Federal Reserve plans to gamble that QE3 will combat a flagging economy. (Reuters) Brent crude rises to $117 on the Fed announcement. (Reuters) The Nintendo Wii U will allow video program…
courtesy NintendoAfter more than a year since the product’s introduction, the Nintendo Wii U game controller finally has pricing, shipping dates, and more details on what the device can do. The company…
While many individual Americans are struggling financially, some of the largest corporations in the United States are sitting on billions in cash. Moody’s pointed out in March that U.S. nonfinancial companies’ cash holdings rose to…
Month after month, Comscore puts out U.S. search engine market share data. Month after month, the leader by an extraordinary margin is Google (NASDAQ: GOOG). August was no exception with Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO)…
Everyone has been big on the launch of the Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone 5 as one of the most telegraphed smartphone releases to date. What is so unique here is that…
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) has finally released what is likely the most telegraphed (and perhaps most obvious) product launch ever. The iPhone 5 is finally here. Apple’s online store said for most…
Digital media research firm comScore Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR) has released its ranking of the top 50 U.S. web properties for August and the list is topped, once again, by the usual suspects.…
courtesy of BaiduWhile Chinese Internet search company Baidu Inc. (NASDAQ: BIDU) slipped in early trading, its competitors Sohu.com Inc. (NASDAQ: SOHU), SINA Corp. (NASDAQ: SINA) and Youku Tudou Inc. (NYSE: YOKU) all…
Now that the German Constitutional Court has approved Germany’s participation in the European Central Bank’s bond-buying program, we can turn our attention to the really big news for today — the expected…
