Over that last six months, shares in Sun Microsystems (SUNW) are down about 17%. From early 2006 until this April, the stock was running hot and was up over 70% at one…
According to Reuters, Dow Jones (DJ) controlling Bancroft family met to discuss Rupert Murdoch’s bid for the company and should vote later this week. Reuters writes that revenue and income fell at…
Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) will buy data center automation software company Opsware (OPSW) for $14.25 a share and combine it with its enterprise IT management software unit. According to the larger company: "the acquisition…
Douglas A. McIntyre According to Reuters, Barclays (BCS) raised its bid for ABN Amro (ABN) to $93 billion. The Wall Street Journal writes that Yahoo! (YHOO), Microsoft (MSFT) and Ask.com are updating their privacy policy…
Below are key short interest statistics for July. The figures are as of July 13 compared to June 15, 2007 Largest Short Positions Company …
Apple (AAPL) Mac shipments hit 960,000 units in Q3 of this year according to IDC. Last year, that figure was 716,000, raising Apple’s share from 4.8% to 5.6% in the US market.…
Data from Gartner indicate that Dell (DELL) may not be doing as well as Wall St. bulls had hoped. Figures show that in Q2, PC shipments by Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) rose 36% but…
According to Reuters net income at Ebay (EBAY) rose 50%. Reuters reports that net income at IBM (IBM) rose 12% on strength in its software business. Reuters writes that Vodafone’s (VOD) revenue…
According to Gartner Group, PC sales rose 12.1% in the second quarter to hit 61.1 million units. The research firm had previously predicted growth of 10.6%. Laptop sales were particularly strong. Hewlett-Packard…
Another study has come out showing the lack of a connection between brand reputation and share price activity. Harris Interactive "best brands" survey was based on a poll of 2,372 adults from…
Michael Dell told a group at a company product launch that Dell (DELL) still has a long way to go before its solves its sales and market share problems. The stock had…
After Lexmark (LXK) told Wall St. that it would miss second and third quarter numbers, the stock dropped about 10% to $45 after hitting a 52-week low of $43.50 earlier in the…
Excitement about EMC’s (EMC) IPO for its virtualization software company VMWare has already helped push the storage company’s stock from just over $10 to over $18. And, VMWare received a significant vote…
The Vista train may be pulling out of the station. After checking a number of software sales indicators, an analyst quoted in Barron’s says that Microsoft (MSFT) OS sales should handily exceed…
Dell (DELL) hit $28.86, a 52-week high, which also puts the stock up 20% during the last year, a better performance than the S&P. Some of the increase comes indirectly from upgrades…