China’s largest search company, Baidu (NASDAQ: BIDU,) released its first quarter 2011 earnings. The firm’s growth rate is impressive, but its total revenue is not. For the period which ended March 31.…
Updated throughout the day. The White House may pick an associate of Wall St. critic Elizabeth Warren to run the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (Reuters) News Corp (NYSE: NWS) will try to…
NokiaNew Nokia (NYSE: NOK) CEO Stephen Elop received a signing bonus of 5 million euros to join the struggling handset company. His base salary is 1.1 million euro. The new chief executive…
The breach of the Sony PlayStation Network which exposed private records of up to 77 million customers is only one in a long line of failures which have occurred since Sir Howard…
A review of data from the damaged Southwest Air (NYSE: LUV) 737 raised questions about Boeing’s (NYSE: BA) manufacturing process. (Reuters) Sony (NYSE: SNE) has begun to market a tablet PC. (Reuters)…
Today’s alternative energy watch begins with a look at the IPO filing by solar thermal maker BrightSource and then examines a new roadmap for biofuels offered up by the International Energy Agency.…
The NYSE (NYSE: NYX) said an M&A deal with Deutsche Boerse would offer greater savings than a NASDAQ (NYSE: NDAQ) deal. (Reuters) Silver rose 5% on the dollar’s weakness. (Reuters) The housing…
Odd, that Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) should announce that it had sold 350 million copies of Windows 7 just as Amazon’s (NASDAQ: AMZN) cloud computing service collapsed and left clients’ website and download…
Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) investors have been puzzled about how the company will make money on its Android mobile operating system. It is offered to mobile and portable hardware firms for free. The software…
Samsung filed patent lawsuits against Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) over smartphone technology (Reuters) The Japanese government will release $50 billion to cover initial costs of the earthquake (Reuters) The Administration will create a…
Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) earnings surpassed expectations and the company said iPad 2 units were backlogged (Reuters) BP plc (NYSE: BP) sued Transocean (NYSE: RIG) for $40 to cover costs related to Deepwater…
Reuters reports that Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) will launch the iPhone 5 in September. The news agency said consumers should expect a faster processor. It reported no important details beyond that. The iPhone…
Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) is due with earnings after the close. For starters, remember that Yahoo! and Google both have to be counted as ex-TAC revenues that backs out the traffic acquisition…
Today’s wrap-up of alt energy news includes a look at the latest investment by Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) in wind energy, another federal loan guarantee for a solar farm, and two acquisitions…
Almost no one mentions also- ran handset company Sony Ericsson anymore. The firm lost money and market share over the last two years. That trend may be in reverse now. Sony Ericsson…
