The latest data from comScore Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR) reporting share in the smartphone market has not changed much. The three-month averages for November through January show that Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) was…
Jon OggThese are some of this Tuesday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls. Amgen Inc. (NASDAQ: AMGN) Cut to Market Perform at Bernstein. Annaly Capital Management, Inc. (NYSE:…
Investors usually reward companies for announcing layoffs. Getting more from fewer workers adds to margins and hopefully to net income. The more serious question is what a new round of layoffs means at digital…
Research In Motion Ltd. (NASDAQ: RIMM) is facing more and more analyst scrutiny. One report last week noted that RIM was at a great chance of issuing an earnings warning. Now a…
Google’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) YouTube is the largest video site in the US in terms of videos viewed each month, according to Comscore. VEVO is second. The gulf between the two was huge in January. YouTube…
Douglas A. McIntyre AIG (NYSE: AIG) to sell more than $6 billion in shares in its AIA unit to pay back government loans. (Reuters) Jaguar Land Rover and Chery plan a joint venture in China…
It is good news for Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), Google (NASDAQ: GOOG), Motorola Mobility (NASDAQ: MMI), Samsung, and perhaps even Research In Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) The Pew Internet and American Life Project reports…
Anheuser-Busch InBev NV may buy China’s Kingway Brewery Holdings’ assets. (Reuters) The Department of Justice is expected to widen its probe of mortgage-backed securities. (Reuters) AT&T (NYSE: T) sets new standards that will impose penalties…
Target (NYSE: TGT) and Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT) are sick of letting firms like Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) make money on customers who use mobile devices to make retail purchases. Among other things, affinity…
Investment firm Sterne Agee has lowered its estimates on Research in Motion Ltd. (NASDAQ: RIMM) while maintaining its ‘neutral’ rating on the company. Sterne Agee noted in its report that RIM’s “Blackberry…
Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) is in patent talks with Facebook. The portal claims that the social network has used some of its intellectual property without permission or license fees. Yahoo!’s claims are based on…
Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) threatens a patent suit against Facebook, citing a number of violations. (Reuters) TransCanada (NYSE: TRP) cuts the length of its Keystone XL pipeline in the hopes of finishing some…
The Windows Phone 7 operating system from Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) shipped on 2.7 million smartphones in the fourth quarter of 2011. Microsoft’s leading handset vendor was Nokia Corp. (NYSE: NOK), the…
Several initiatives were set in the past two days to protect consumers against private data collected by providers of browsers, apps and websites that keep personal information. Such information is used to target…
A panel suggests that Vivus diet drug Qnexa be approved by the FDA. (Reuters) Japan may cut crude oil imports from Iran by 20%. (Reuters) Poor results cause shares of Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ)…
