Meg Whitman’s plans to revive Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ) have become audacious. Various media report that she believes a more attractively designed family of PCs will bring back customers who have deserted…
Record iPhone 5 Preorders AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) claims the Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone 5 set a presale order record, supporting news over the weekend that even Apple itself is sold out. The…
A government investigation into J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) focuses on whether its monitoring of illicit money transactions was adequate. (Reuters) The U.S. will initiate a case at the WTO against…
Shipments of dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) chips to the PC industry have fallen below 50% for the first time since the 1980s according to new data from IHS iSuppli released today. In…
The markets’ broad rally has left some sectors behind, most notably the PC and PC-related hardware companies. The death of the platform, which has become broadly accepted by Wall St., has not been…
EU Finance Ministers Meet The financial ministers of the euro area will meet over the next two days. There is a very wide range of topics that they might discuss. The gathering should begin…
Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ) will lay off 29,000 people instead of the 26,000 it originally announced as it struggles to improve performance. Royal Philips Electronics N.V. will cut the 2,200 jobs it…
George Soros says Germany should back the European Union or leave it. (Reuters) The new Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone could boast fourth-quarter gross domestic product by 0.5%, according to a J.P. Morgan Chase…
Research firm IDC has named the top PC makers for the second quarter of 2012. The top 5 global makers are: Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ), 13.4 million units shipped, 15.5% market share…
Debate over how many jobs the United States loses to China has gone on for years. Today, China is one of the two largest manufacturing economies in the world. The other is…
One thing that can be said about the high-tech marketplace is that it does not lack ideas. But it is sometimes difficult to sort out the good ones from the bad ones.…
Jon OggThese are the top analyst calls of upgrades, downgrades, and initiations we have seen from Wall St. research calls this Tuesday morning. AK Steel Holding Corp. (NYSE: AKS) cut to Sell…
All you had to do was review the recent earnings reports from Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) and Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ) and you knew that a PC slowdown was still underway. Unfortunately, the…
The short interest in the stocks with the largest positions as of August 15: Bank of America Corp. (NYSE: BAC) down 2% to 220 million shares. Nokia Corp. (NYSE: NOK) up…
The bad news about PC sales, particularly at Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) and Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) was bound to be bad news for chip markets Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) and AMD (NYSE: AMD). The…
