In a sign that the market, and especially tech stocks, are moving up at a burning pace, several major companies have hit 52-week highs today. Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) at $51.05. Broadcom (BRCM) at…
Yesterday was a bad day for chip stocks based upon Morgan Stanley’s key downgrades in the semiconductor sector. But today is a different day as many major technology companies have been initiated…
According to Reuters, most mutual fund companies side with management on proxy issues. The Wall Street Journal writes that Ebay (EBAY) is taking a $1.4 billion charge for Skype. The Wall Street…
Big tech continued to do extraordinarily well in the third quarters. Stocks that would seem to have outrun their earnings continued to climb. Among the members of the S&P 500, Apple (AAPL)…
This week we have many mergers coming up for approval from shareholders, and many of these will no longer be trading after this week. Here is a partial list of the more…
Dell (DELL) may have made its biggest move since the return of Michael Dell to demonstrate that it is serious to turn itself around. According to The Wall Street Journal, Dell has…
Sun Microsystems (JAVA) thinks China will be the hot country in Asia over the next few years. Like almost every other US company, it believes it can double sales in the huge…
Microsoft (NASD:MSFT) lost its appeal of the antitrust case brought by the EU. The court upheld the $612 fine imposed on the company as well. The EU had charged that Microsoft used…
Apple (AAPL) has decided to sell the Mac almost exclusively in its online store or in its small number of company-owned retail outlets. That may turn out to be a significant tactical…
Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) launched a nifty new line of PCs. Bright black finishes.aluminum moldings, and blue ambient lighting. According to the FT, HP says that it is putting out the new machines because…
Barron’s was good enough to point to a new survey from DisplaySearch. It covers laptop sales for Q2. Notebook sales rose 40% in Q2 this year compared to the same quarter in…
On tonight’s MAD MONEY, Jim Cramer went over Defensive Stocks that will be immune to FED rate cut dependence. Cramer already gave his fantasy football draft list for the defensive linemen, but…
An interesting thing is going on in PDA-land and Phoneland this week. Palm Inc. (NASDAQ:PALM) already disclosed that it is canning its Foleo offering. But another key development that has received little…
It is not enough that Apple (AAPL) is getting more aggressive with prices on its iPhone to take market share from the likes of Nokia (NOK) and Motorola (MOT). Now, Hewlett-Packard (HPQ)…
Last week, Sun Microsystems (JAVA) changed its ticker symbol from SUNW to JAVA. JAVA is a widely known and highly regarded programming language that Sun introduced twelve years ago. It is used…
