Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) has been pretty good at protecting a lead. Its Windows 7 franchise has kept it well ahead of any other PC operating system and produced record sales after the…
Reuters: Second quarter growth slowed on imports and lower consumer spending. Reuters: Republicans blocked a small business plan. Reuters: The House will take up legislation on offshore drilling. Reuters: Citigroup (NYSE: C)…
If you heard CNBC in the last few minutes or have watched news wires, multiple reports are out that China has blocked the Google.cn site. Sound familiar? It should. This is not…
The June audience of ESPN.com soared to 30.6 million unique visitors as people checked out the World Cup online, according to research firm comScore. That moved it ahead of well-known sites including…
Reuters: The Fed Beige Book says some regions see economic slowing. Reuters: The China People’s Daily ran an editorial which encourages the US to take account of China’s rising power. Reuters: Amazon.com…
Reuters: BP plc’s (NYSE: BP) new CEO called the spill a “wake up call” for the oil industry. Reuters: The IMF backed down on its comments about the yuan’s value. Reuters: Google…
Yahoo! Japan will use the Google Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG) search engine technology. Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) has a stake in the Japan operation, but is not the controlling shareholder. The decision is a…
Reuters: UBS (NYSE: UBS) and Deutsche Bank (NYSE: DB) posted good earnings. Reuters: The EU opened antitrust investigations into IBM (NYSE: IBM) Reuters: Ask.com, owned by IACI (NASDAQ: IACI), will use humans…
Social networks and search engines have been restricted by regimes that want to control access to news and manage public opinion. Now the Research In Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) BlackBerry is under siege…
Douglas A. McIntyre The great majority of the largest companies in America are easily identified by name by most consumers. That is because their names match one or more of their most important brands. McDonald’s…
The 24/7 Wall Street Corporate Power Rankings of the 32 most important companies in America are determined by earnings, analyst rankings, important corporate news, trends in each firm’s industry, product introductions, management…
MarketWatch: A number of economists now expect Q2 GDP to be below 2%. Reuters: BP plc’s (NYSE: BP) CEO Tony Hayward is expected to resign. Reuters: Hayward will leave with $10 million.…
Recent research shows that the number of Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPads has passed the number of Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) Kindles in the hands of consumers. The news could undermine Amazon’s successful…
Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) now has more than 10 billion images in its “image” section and consumers access the service at the rate of one billion pageviews day. Google Images was launched in…
Douglas A. McIntyre Honda Motor Co. (NYSE: HMC) President Takanobu Ito plans to capitalize on the global shift toward smaller cars that offer advanced technology to reduce both petroleum consumption and carbon dioxide emissions. Ito…
