Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO) put out its annual Visual Networking Index (VNI) forecast for 2011 to 2016. The huge router company projects the Internet will be four times as large in four years…
Mary Meeker, who used to be called “Queen of the Net” when she was an analyst at Morgan Stanley, is out with her annual report on the state of the internet called…
The board and management of Research In Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) apparently would like to sell the company. That will not happen. It is not a good fit with any of the potential…
China’s Ministry of Commerce told the nation’s official news agency, Xinhua, that the People’s Republic will be the country with the most online retail volume in the world by 2013. U.S. e-commerce companies do…
Canadian-based smartphone maker Research in Motion Ltd. (NASDAQ: RIMM) is expected to fire about 2,000 employees as soon as the end of this week as the struggling company tries to save itself…
Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) has apparently not allowed the scandal around its IPO, its slowing growth, or questions about its revenue from mobile devices to slow its M&A activity. It is in talks to buy…
Two years ago Cisco Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO) introduced a tablet device it had named the ‘Cius’, which used the Android operating system from Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG). The7-inch device was targeted…
Toyota (NYSE: TM) announced it would move more aggressively into emerging markets. The Wall Street Journal reports that: Toyota, Japan’s biggest car maker by volume, plans to sell more than 1 million…
Four market markers involved in the Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) IPO lose $100 million combined. (Reuters) EU concerns push the euro to close to a two-year low. (Reuters) Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) will…
For some reason, Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) wants to be in the crowded web browser sector. Its new product is called “Axis”. It is meant to compete with Apple’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone, iPad and…
In the first quarter of 2012, the leading maker of mobile devices as measured by page impressions was Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL), followed by Samsung Electronics (OTC: SSNLF.PK), HTC Corp., Motorola (now…
Oil has hit an extraordinarily low price, below $90 a barrel for WTI crude. That is the lowest level since October. It shows no inclination to spike back up. PMI data from Europe and China actually…
Many members of the EU want Greece to remain a member but have begun to prepare for its departure. (Reuters) Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) posts better-than-expected earnings and says it will fire 27,000…
A quick review of the 25 largest US IPOs ever shows how badly Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) has done in early trading. Most of the company’s on the list have tremendous revenue, traditional business…
Even the whittled down version of the patent infringement lawsuit that Oracle Corp. (NASDAQ: ORCL) brought against Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) didn’t pass a San Francisco jury today. The federal jury’s verdict…
