Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) is acquiring LeftHand Networks Inc., a move that takes the company further into hardware for virtualization. LeftHand provides storage virtualization and iSCSI storage area network solutions to enable mid-size…
Joe Tucci, the CEO of EMC (EMC), has done his best to ruin his company and its spin-out VMWare (VMW). VMWare has the look and feel of a public firm but Tucci…
There have been more press releases out of the Oracle OpenWorld conference in San Francisco this week than you can count. But one from Oracle Corp. (NASDAQ: ORCL) is perhaps the most…
Dell (DELL) is going to grow faster than the other global PC companies. Why? Because Michael Dell says so. That means HP (HPQ), the big Chinese PC companies, and perhaps Apple (AAPL)…
According to Reuters, Bush called an emergency meeting of Congressional leaders to push through bank bailout legislation. Reuters reports that Goldman Sachs (GS) and Morgan Stanley (MS) are preparing to take advantage…
The cut-off for the last short interest data was September 15, before a number of financial stocks got protection from the SEC. Before the ban, short sellers were already moving out of…
Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ) has decided to jump in on the stock buyback bandwagon. Its new share buyback program is for $8 billion in common stock. At current prices, this would represent…
Douglas A. McIntyre The Fed may still be concerned about inflation given that the UK said consumer prices there had a core increase of 4.7%. Even with that news, the oil and commodities elements of…
Douglas A. McIntyre After a savage day in which one Wall St. firm closed and another was sold, perhaps there might have been an evening’s respite. Lehman (LEH) has more than 25,000 employees, 20,000 of…
This morning is looking actually a bit dull in analyst coverage, but there are some key analyst calls that are affecting shares. These are the upgrades or positive analyst calls we are…
The good thing about the Apple (AAPL) iPod is that the company has sold 160 million of them. That is the bad thing about the device as well. Apple ships about 10…
Poor Michael Dell, CEO of Dell (DELL), only made $2.3 million last year. Of course, he is a billionaire and owns over 227 million shares in the company he runs. His shareholders…
Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) reports earnings after the close today and we’ll get to see if the solid numbers from rival Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) are being seen at Dell during their turnaround…
According to Reuters, the FDIC may have to borrow money from Treasury to see it though a wave of bank failures. Reuters reports that Lehman (LEH) has asked three investment firms to…
This week may be lightly attended by traders and investors, but Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) is set to report earnings on Thursday, August 28, 2008 after the close. We’ll get to see…