Dell (DELL) and HP (HPQ) already face a PC market which has been weakened by falling consumer and business spending. They have been flanked at the high end of the market by…
The market was disappointed by Hewlett-Packard’s (HPQ) forecast for the next quarter. The technology company’s results for the past quarter were in line with Wall St. estimates. Analysts look to H-P as…
Douglas A. McIntyre Reuters:  The Treasury is keeping banks guessing about when they can repay TARP funds. Reuters:  Bank of America (BAC) has raised more than $13 billion in share sales. Reuters:  Hewlett-Packard’s (HPQ) financial…
The key earnings report from Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE: HPQ) is now out, and it appears that the company is seeing the same trends as other technology giants. A firm recovery might not…
Douglas A. McIntyre We are expecting the key earnings report from Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE: HPQ) after the close of trading today. This should mark the 30th DJIA component reporting earnings this season. Because of the…
Reuters:Â Â Twitter will release business tools in an attempt to make money. Reuters:Â Â A GM (GM) bankruptcy is seen as nearly inevitable. Reuters:Â Â American Express (AXP) will cut 4,000 jobs. Reuters:Â Â Obama…
Apple’s (AAPL) march to make the iPhone a viable alternative to the business-oriented RIM (RIMM) Blackberry and perhaps netbooks, which are posting surging sales, got a boost from software security companies. Symantec…
A huge population of red ants has bedeviled Texas farmers for years. By some estimates the insects cost state businesses close to $1 billion a year due to crop and machinery destruction.…
Several of the best-funded and most-publicized tech launches of the last ten years have ended in failure. Many large technology companies which had significant market share and product advantages in large industries…
According to data from the 24/7 Wall St.-The Channel Checkers survey, Dell (DELL) is doing extremely well in the consumer retail part of the PC industry. Over the past week, we surveyed…
Twelve of the Fortune 500 CEOs are women. Just twelve. Over the next year, that number is likely to go up considerably because of a confluence of economic and financial factors that…
Oracle (ORCL) is in the server business now. So are IBM (IBM), Cisco (CSCO), and Hewlett-Packard (HPQ), but those four companies are fairly evenly matched. HP has annual revenue of more than…
Sun Microsystems Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) is seeing a bit of excitement this morning on word that it is ready to resume talks with IBM (NYSE: IBM). We have been under the belief…
According to Reuters, Obama vowed to overhaul the tax code. Reuters reports that GM (GM) is working on a plan to cut dealers at an accelerated pace. Reuters writes that China’s first…
Dell (DELL) has done a modest amount of what it could do to keep pace with its PC competition. It recently launched a high-end laptop, the Adamo, which mimics the look of…
