The borrow-a-patent, rent-a-patent, buy-a-patent industry is growing by the day. Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) just bought 1,023 patents from IBM (NYSE: IBM). The big hardware company will hardly miss them. It files more…
Carol Bartz resigns from Yahoo!’s (NASDAQ: YHOO) board. (Reuters) Lagarde disputes reports of an IMF study that shows a $372 billion capital shortfall among Europe’s banks. (Reuters) Bank of America’s (NYSE: BAC)…
The job market has remained relatively stagnant since 2009. To make matters worse, the educational requirements of the average U.S. employer have increased consistently from 2005 to 2009, recently outpacing the growth…
Jon OggThe recovery has been stalling and it is becoming easier and easier to argue that the next recession (often mislabeled as a double-dip recession) is afoot. Friday’s net-zero in August non-Farm…
International Business Machines Corporation (NYSE: IBM) might have been raised to “Buy” by Goldman Sachs in the middle of August, but the ongoing slowness in the economy may be taking a further…
It was only recently that Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ) dropped the news that it was evaluating strategic alternatives for its PC group, called the Personal Systems Group. At the time the company…
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NYSE: AMD) is in a constant state of challenge. Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC) is just too formidable of competitor. AMD has been without a CEO since Dirk Meyer…
To say that Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ) has undergone some winds of change would be the understatement of the year. One analyst has come out in defense of H-P. Auriga now sees…
One study after another has demonstrated the income disparity between women and men. Not surprisingly, this gender discrimination carries all the way into America's boardrooms and corporate suites, where women continue to…
Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ) was having what is considered to be a strange day by any stretch of the imagination. The stock was higher on reports that it was going to spin-off…
Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ) is due with earnings after the closing bell today. The problem is that there was a Bloomberg report that said that HP is set to spin-off its PC…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Monday morning. Aetna Inc. (NYSE: AET) Reiterated Buy with $51 target at Argus.…
Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) became the most valuable company in America yesterday when its market cap passed Exxon Mobil’s (NYSE: XOM). The move draws attention to what market capitalization means, and why it…
Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) briefly became the most valuable company in the world today. When it hit $364 billion in worth, it passed long-time leader Exxon Mobil. Over a span of two years,…
IBM (NYSE: IBM) posted extraordinarily strong earnings for the quarter that ended June 30. The news caused the technology giant’s shares to slip after hours and then rise very slightly. The market’s…
