EMC Corp. (NYSE:EMC) has made an SEC Filing for the proposed dates and averages used to calculate employee share and options exchanges from EMC to VMWare (NYSE:VMW) ahead of the IPO. The…
According to Reuters, Energizer (ENR) will buy Playtex (PYX) for just under $1.2 billion. Reuters writes that GE (GE) plans to sell its WMC mortage unit. Reuters reports that Boeing’s (BA) orders…
Alcatel-Lucent (ALU) has won the contract to build out a WiMax network in France. According to MarketWatch: "Alcatel-Lucent will equip the planned sites in the Ile de France and Provence-Alpes-Cote d’Azur regions…
Douglas A. McIntyre As the land-line businesses at large telcos like AT&T (T) and Verizon (VZ) have been eroded by technology, especially cable-delivered VoIP, earnings have been kept strong by their cellular divisions. Cell subscriber…
According to Reuters, private equity firms are going to start to target big miners like Alcoa (AA). Reuters writes that Rupert Murdoch’s BSkyB added 90,000 subscribers over the last quarter. Reuters writes…
EMC (EMC) is getting closer and closer getting the VMWare (VMW) spin-off and IPO out the door to Wall Street. Some interesting developments have happened: Intel (INTC) has taken a $218.5 million…
Oracle (ORCL) has launched its new "database management system" software’s latest version. But, a number of customers have indicated that they will not upgrade, maybe for a couple of years. The software…
Excitement about EMC’s (EMC) IPO for its virtualization software company VMWare has already helped push the storage company’s stock from just over $10 to over $18. And, VMWare received a significant vote…
Stock Tickers: CME, BOT, DFS, RIMM, AAPL, AA, RTP, AL, AMD, MOT, ALU, MPEL, GM, TM, BIDU, INTC, DELL, MSFT If the CME (CME) and CBOT (BOT) doesn’t get approved next week,…
After a long time in purgatory, Intel’s (INTC) shares hit a 52-week high of $24.46 today. The stock has not been at level since early 2006. There is certainly some hope that…
The Vista train may be pulling out of the station. After checking a number of software sales indicators, an analyst quoted in Barron’s says that Microsoft (MSFT) OS sales should handily exceed…
Dell (DELL) hit $28.86, a 52-week high, which also puts the stock up 20% during the last year, a better performance than the S&P. Some of the increase comes indirectly from upgrades…
Industry experts expected that AMD’s (AMD) last best hope for getting back into competition with Intel (INTC) for server market share would have a clock speed of 2.7 gigahertz to 2.8 gigahertz …
ACL raised to Buy at Goldman Sachs.ANDW cut to Neutral at Baird.CRWN started as Buy at Oppenheimer.CSCO raised to Buy at Merrill Lynch.DNA reiterated Buy at Goldman Sachs with $102 target.ENOC started…
Stock Tickers: QQQQ, NVDA, MXIM, AMAT, INTC, KLAC, MCHP, SNDK, ISIL, ALTR, ATML, LLTC, NVLS, ONNN, XLNX, IDTI This pretty much confirms the rise in the June-2007 short interest of NYSE-listed chip…
