The Wall Street Journal reports that Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) has hired Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) to defend it from activist shareholders. Updated throughout the day Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) will launch the new…
Updated throughout the day. Acer will use problems at Hewlett-Packard’s (NYSE: HPQ) PC division to add customers (Reuters) Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) is prepared to make deep budget and personnel cuts (NYT)…
Some boards of directors of America’s largest public companies have shown such poor judgment guiding their troubled corporations that they have long stopped being effective. Just recently, the misguided actions of the…
Just last week we noted a new study from the Gartner Group Inc. (NYSE: IT) that the iPad from Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) looked set to dominate the tablet market until at…
Europe begins to more aggressively look for problems to its debt crisis as pressure from the rest of the world grows. (Reuters) Amazon.com’s (NASDAQ: AMZN) new tablet PC may be a serious…
Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Friday morning. We are tracking news and  moves in shares of Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold (NYSE: FCX), Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE: HPQ), and NIKE,…
It is old news that Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) sells more iPads by a huge margin than any rival can sell other tablet PCs. Apple is so successful that it is almost unfair.…
A shutdown of the federal government could still happen at the end of the month as the budget battle moves to the Senate. (Reuters) Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) names Meg Whitman, former CEO…
The DJIA (NYSE: DIA) was trading down 500 points today before a late-day rally. More European concerns and serious slowing in China’s manufacturing data only brought on more selling. The week before…
Just in case anyone believed that Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) was being seriously threatened by competitors to its iPad tablet, that belief can probably be put to rest for a few years.…
Computer peripherals maker Logitech International SA (NASDAQ: LOGI) has been having a tough year and its going to get tougher. The company posted an EPS loss of -$0.17 in its first fiscal…
Updated throughout the day Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HQP) may hire Meg Whitman as CEO (various) KDDI will begin to sell the Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone in China (Nikkei Business) The UAW is having…
The House defeated a spending bill to fund the federal government passed September 30. (Reuters) United Technologies (NYSE: UTX) will buy Goodrich (NYSE: GR) for $16.5 billion. (Reuters) China’s PMI for September…
Leo Apotheker may have one of the shortest CEO jobs in technology history. There are rumors that the board of Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ) is already considering replacing Apotheker. The move to…
Customer satisfaction with purchases of durable goods in 2011 remains virtually identical with 2010 levels most likely as a result of falling prices. A survey of customer satisfaction with personal computers, appliances,…
