Obama to announce aid for student and home loans. Home loan proposals will include refinancing for underwater mortgages. (Reuters) EU leaders press Italy for more austerity measures. (Reuters) China’s October PMI is…
The Obama Administration will release a plan on Monday to help people with underwater mortgages and good credit to get new refinanced home loans at present rates which are the lowest in…
YouTube has become more and more each month, the Facebook of online video. The Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) site’s inventory of content which can be used to support video advertising dwarfs that on the balance…
Douglas A. McIntyre Groupon is fighting a serious headwind to come public. We have raised flags of caution on this numerous times and the calls against the company are only seeming to become more vocal…
The headline number from Nokia Corp.’s (NYSE: NOK) third quarter earnings report is that sales fell by -13% year-over-year. But there were some positives as well. Instead of an expected EPS loss…
Management at Samsung recently boasted that it sold 20 million handsets in the past quarter, compared with Apple’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) 17 million iPhone sales, the Wall Street Journal reports. The boast does…
For the sixth straight quarter, Intel Corp. (NASDAQ: INTC) has posted record sales, partly due to a 22% increase in sales to PC makers. Does that indicate that the PC makers like…
The smartphone business was among the most attractive in the tech world until recently. That was before Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) forced several makers of Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) Android-based phones to pay it…
Moody’s downgrade of Spain puts more pressure on the EU to address its sovereign debt crisis. (Reuters) Several large shareholders may fight to oust part of the News Corp. (NYSE: NWS) board.…
Streaming video provider Hulu LLC has been taken off the auction block by owners News Corp. (NYSE: NWS), Walt Disney Co. (NYSE: DIS), Comcast Corp. (NASDAQ: CMCSA), among others. Rumored potential buyers…
When Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) reported third-quarter earnings last night, CEO Larry Page noted that the company’s mobile advertising revenues are currently running at an annual rate of $2.5 billion, up 2.5x…
Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Friday morning. We are tracking news and  moves in shares of Alcatel-Lucent (NYSE: ALU), Baidu.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: BIDU), Ford Motor Company (NYSE: F),…
Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) announced monster earnings on the same day that the New York Times (NYSE: NYT) said it would cut more workers. This news shows once again how great the divide…
When the G20 meets, the focus will be on the EU crisis. (Reuters) Google’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) Q3 numbers kill concerns about U.S. ad markets. (Reuters) JPMorgan (NYSE: JPM) earnings pull down equity…
What advertising recession? What advertising slowdown? Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) just rocked the house on earnings. It may have been punished after July’s earnings report but that is far from the case…
Jon C. Ogg 
