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…
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)…
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…
After the EU took Microsoft (INTC) out back and beat it up over anti-trust charges and then a European court upheld the EU ruling and fines, it would seem no one would…
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…
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…
Even if VMware (NYSE:VMW) sees its stock go sideways or even if it gets soft from here, it has a long way to go before many would be able to say this…
Sony (SNE) is launching a service in Europe that will allow users of its beleaguered PS3 to download TV shows and move them to the portable SNE PSP portable device. TV-to-go. As…
Below are short interest figures for major companies traded on the NYSE as of August 15 compared to July 13, 2007 Largest Short Positions Ford (F) …
Sun Microsystems (SUNW) has come up with another new way to make revenue. It sales were flat in the last quarter, and that does not seem likely to change in the next…
According to Reuters, Dell (DELL) will restate four years of results after an audit that lasted over a year. Reuters writes that Bear Steans (BSC) will cut 240 jobs in its sub-prime…
A federal judge ruled yesterday that Novell (NOVL) is the owner of the critical copyrights for the Unix operating system. Another company SCO Group (SCOX) had claimed these rights. As The New…
The DJIA is down more than another 150 points today, although it had been down 200 in pre-market activity before the Fed added liquidity this morning. We have been down actually less…
Sun Microsystems (SUNW) sold off today and hit a 52-week low at $4.50. Its 52-week high is $6.78. The company put out mediocre numbers on July 30, so this is a bit…
HP (HPQ) is a curious stock by many measures. Over the last year, it has whipped shares in competitors including IBM (IBM) and Dell (DELL). But, what may be more telling is…
