courtesy of Hewlett-PackardHewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ) is still in the beginnings of its long-term turnaround under CEO Meg Whitman. Earnings were not so bad, but there is this continued erosion in the core…
courtesy of Wal-Mart Stores Inc.Walmart is the largest American employer, with a workforce of nearly 2.2 million people. However, because of its international reach, only 1.3 million of those were employed in…
courtesy of SamsungAccording to several press sources, Samsung will introduce the equivalent of a smartwatch that can surf the Web, make phone calls and even tell time. At first, the news would…
ThinkstockAnyone who doubted that the race for global personal computer (PC) supremacy has shifted outside the United States only needs to look at Lenovo’s most recent quarterly results. Revenue at the Chinese…
Jon OggThe dog days of August have hit the stock market and volume will soon come to a virtual standstill. With a very productive year for the markets almost two-thirds in the…
courtesy of AOL, IncMaybe the era when firing people in public was acceptable has ended. Perhaps some executives can still get away with it. Clearly, Tim Armstrong of AOL Inc. (NYSE: AOL)…
Brian Katt / Wikimedia Commons / GNU Free Documentation LicenseWhile many investors may think corporate communication is unclear, some companies are far more candid than others. In fact, According to corporate communications consulting…
courtesy Dell Inc.Michael Dell appears to have gotten what he wished for. The special committee of the Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) board, charged with vetting any arrangement to buy the company, has…
The standoff over the future ownership of Dell Inc., with Carl Icahn and his allies on the one side and Michael Dell and his on the other, has failed to yield any…
ThinkstockIn the world to tech, there is old tech, current tech and future tech. Old tech got spanked this week, as Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) proved that its Windows PC business continues…
Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) is one of the most controversial buyouts in recent memory, certainly when you consider the size of this transaction going well above $20 billion. The fight between Carl…
ThinkstockLate last month research firm Gartner Inc. (NYSE: IT) forecast that PC sales would fall by 10.6% in 2013. Right on on plan, the firm said today that second-quarter shipments fell by…
July 10, 2013: U.S. equity markets opened barely mixed this morning after last night’s downgrade of Italian debt and a report that both China’s exports and imports declined in June. There was little…
These are the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations from select Wall Street research calls on Wednesday, July 10, 2013. They include EMC, HP, ViroPharma and Deutsche Bank.
July 9, 2013: U.S. equity markets opened higher this morning on a day when there was no economic data due from the U.S. and only a bit from the rest of the…
