Updated throughout the day on the 24/7 Wall St. Wire Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) will pay $22.5 million to settle FTC privacy charges (WSJ) John Paulson’s hedge fund posted huge losses last month…
Douglas A. McIntyre The world’s largest companies have never had a reputation for showering investors with information about their financial situations and operations. The rules that might make them do so are too lax. Government authorities…
Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) invests in next-generation chip company ASML (NASDAQ: ASML). (Reuters) The Federal Reserve Bank of New York may have known in 2007 that the way Libor was set was incorrect. (Reuters)…
Shares of Nokia Corp. (NYSE: NOK) hit a new 52-week low of $2.00 last Thursday and have continued to slide since then. Shares are down -8% just before noon this morning, even…
Forget about your Fourth of July time off! Earnings season is starting this week and it is the tough summer trends that investors have to worry about. While many businesses have held…
The display advertising industry, shaken by the falling prices it can get for its online ads, has taken to showing full-page marketing messages at websites. These blot out all of the content on website pages,…
Bloomberg reports that Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) may launch a smartphone, which would mean the world’s largest e-commerce company would join the mobile phone sector just after Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) and Google (NASDAQ: GOOG)…
Shares of Nokia Corp. (NYSE: NOK) set a new 52-week low of $2.00 today. The one-time leader in sales of mobile phones did not have any news, but the company’s prospects are…
The European Central Bank probably will cut rates due to weaknesses in EU economies. (Reuters) Some states push mediation as a way to keep people in their homes. (Reuters) US Airways (NYSE:…
It is no secret that the world of smartphones has consolidated and continues to consolidate. Research in Motion Ltd. (NASDAQ: RIMM) was the smartphone just a few years ago for executives and…
The latest rankings are out from comScore Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR) on the US smartphone device and platform markets. Samsung Electronics (OTC: SSNLF) leads the device makers with a 25.7% market share. Apple…
The non-profit Mozilla Corporation, maker of the Firefox web browser, today said that it would issue a smartphone operating system platform as the Firefox OS. The platform has been known until now…
Jon OggHow much should a Wall Street analyst call be worth? Pointing out a buyout rumor or a large contract win before anyone, well that can add massive value to a stock. But…
If one company would be the judge, jury and executioner on online ad spending, it would be Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG). The problem is that Google is now so spread out that…
Research In Motion’s (NASDAQ: RIMM) board may have no other choice than to make a last-ditch effort to save the company through an alliance with Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), Reuters reports. Microsoft could…
