The technology world loves WiMax, the ultra-high-speed wireless broadband technology. Wall St. hates it. The two biggest proponents of the system in the US are Sprint (S) and Clearwire (CLWR). Over the…
Douglas A. McIntyre Below are the short positions for major companies traded on the Nasdaq as of October 15. The figures compare to numbers on September 28, 2007 Traders bet big on Sun’s turnaround, dropping…
Transmeta Corp. (NASDAQ:TMTA) is seeing shares gap up exponentially after the announcement that it has reached an agreement with Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) to settle all legal claims between the companies and to license…
Douglas A. McIntyre Any business where Cisco (CSCO) and Intel (INTC) are on the same side of the ball is going to get a lot of momentum. And, yesterday Cisco bought WiMax equipment company Navini…
According to Reuters, shares in Amazon (AMZN) dropped on concerns about margins in it latest earnings. Reuters writes that RIM (RIMM) will start to market its Blackberry in China. Reuters reports that…
Apple (AAPL) always beats earnings forecasts. In the last quarter, it hit revenue of $6.22 billion and had a profit of $1.01 a shares. It sold 10.2 million iPods, 1.1 million iPhones…
Sandisk (SNDK) has its own solution for moving content from the PC to the TV. Companies from Intel (INTC) to Microsoft (MSFT) have been working on this problems for years. Apple (AAPL)…
AMD (AMD) has accused Intel (INTC) of creating a monopoly in PC and servers chips by using its size to give customers special deals to do business with it exclusively. The European…
With the CEO out at Sprint (S), it looked like his dream for a nationwide WiMax network to blanket much of the US with high-speed wireless was dead. That might have killed…
According to Reuters, Halliburton (HAL) increased its third quarter profit by 19%. Reuters writes that Wal-Mart (WMT) will buy the part of its Japanese operations that it does not own for $350…
The New York Times was good enough to run a list of the world’s 20 most valuable companies ranked by market cap in 1989, 1999, and 2007. Japan owned the list in…
There was a moment after AMD (AMD) released its earnings when the stock actually rose. Gross margins were up a bit. The Q3 loss was less than Q2. There was a below…
AMD (AMD) had another big quarterly loss. But, it was not as large as in Q2 and gross margins improved a bit. Maybe the chip price wars are ending and AMD can…
Workers in industries that are not doing well usually get laid off. But, it is not a good omen when workers in robust sectors of the economy are losing their jobs. Countrywide…
According to Reuters, the Mortgage Bankers Association said that mortgage originations will fall next year to the lowest levels since 2000, forcing job losses for at least 30,000 more home finance professionals.…