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…
The Mac is unlikely to take Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL) to the leader’s board for PC sales. It is still considered too much of a niche product. And, netbooks, which were until…
The environment for home sales becomes more difficult with each passing month. Some estimates put 11.1 million mortgages, about 23% of the US total, underwater, meaning that homeowners owe their banks more…
The personal computer business is changing. In some ways the changes are better, but in many ways the changes are not good for the sector. Gartner Group’s Q3 preliminary data showed growth…
Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: (NASDAQ: DELL) is seeing some unusual activity ahead of its earnings report. Perhaps more interesting is what is causing the move. There are a couple of rumors that either…
There doesn’t seem to be too much excitement among the technorati for the new Windows Phone 7 operating system from Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ:MSFT). The comments generally replay the “too little, too late”…
