The craze of late-2008 into 2009 was the netbook. The new craze is the tablet PC, and you do not need to be told about the iPad from Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL). …
Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) raised its earnings outlook for 2011. (Reuters) J Crew Group (NYSE: JCG) is close to a $2.8 billion takeover by private equity interests. (Reuters) Oil fell to near $81…
Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ) is out with earnings and the IT and PC giant reported $1.33 EPS on $33.28 billion in revenues. Thomson Reuters had estimates of $1.27 EPS on revenue of…
Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ) reports earnings this afternoon, after the market closes. Non-GAAP EPS is expected to be $1.27 on revenue of $32.75 billion. That’s substantially better than the EPS of $1.08…
Dell (NYSE: DELL) reported especially strong earnings for its last quarter. Revenue was up 19% to $15.4 billion. Net income rose 144% to $822 million. CEO Michael Dell was bold to say “Our…
The GM IPO may be the largest in US history (Reuters) Fed officials defended their plan to lower rates (Reuters) Bonds issues by Ireland may have great value in the case of…
Arguments about the global economy became heated at the G20 summit. (Reuters) Research In Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) prepared to launch its rival to the Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPad and said threats to…
Some of the recent acquisitions by one public company or another have given shareholders huge windfalls. 3Par was sold at an extraordinary valuation after a bidding war between Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) and…
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE:WMT) started a digital movie download service with Hewlett-Packard Corp. (NASDAQ:HPQ) in 2007 that lasted for about a year until it was shut down because of lack of consumer…
Mortgage investors have begun to pressure banks to buy back bad loans. (Reuters) China may use its rare earth stocks to help it move ahead with alternative energy. (Reuters) Bank of Japan…
Larry Ellison, the founder and CEO of Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL), is one of the most powerful and wealthy executives in the world. He has also set himself up to be judge, jury,…
The Federal Reserve will begin monetary easing shortly. (Reuters) Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) CEO Larry Ellison claims he can prove wrongdoing by Hewlett- Packard’s (NYSE: HPQ) new chief executive. (Reuters) The International Energy…
Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) has begun to show its new Slate tablet PC. The company still guards some details about the machine, but the media has ferreted out a bit about how the…
Reuters: The US will push a trade and foreign exchange agenda at the G20 meeting. Reuters: Fed officials are still not in agreement about quantitative easing. Reuters: American International…
Skeptics have asked, fairly, why Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) should have a larger market capitalization than Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ), Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), and IBM (NYSE: IBM). The answer is that Apple’s growth…
