Investment bank UBS suggested that smartphone sales have slowed and the the weakest companies in the sector, which includes Motorola Mobility (NYSE: MMI) , might be crippled long-term Best Buy (NYSE: BBI)…
Most of the financial media stops at mid-year to reflect on how the market performed since January 1. The effort is often fruitless. The fact that a stock, or any market, did…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Tuesday morning. Ashland Inc. (NYSE: ASH) Reiterated Buy with $79 target at Argus.…
Continued success of the Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone and the chance that a new version of the smartphone would launch in September pressures Motorola Mobility’s shares. A battle between Walgreen’s and joint…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Tuesday morning. Amerisafe, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMSF) Cut to Underperform as Bear of the…
Jon OggIt is a big day for analyst research calls. These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Friday morning. The AES…
Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO) is admitting failure in at least part of the consumer operations side of its business. Cisco announced plans to “exit aspects of its consumer businesses and realign the…
It is perhaps a truism that when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. That seems to be the thinking at Eastman Kodak Co. (NYSE: EK), once the…
Everyone knows that Facebook has more than 500 million users, a market value north of $50 billion, and a CEO whose life has already been documented in a feature film. Why does…
The iPad from Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) lost nearly 20% of its 96% share of the tablet market in the fourth quarter of 2010 to tablets using the Android operating system from…
Friday was a sea of red in the markets, but earnings season creates many winners and losers. This last week brought on another interesting aspect: Many Stocks Got Hammered! It was no…
If there was any lingering doubt about the identity of the 600-pound gorilla in the mobile phone market, today’s earnings announcements from three major mobile players out to put those doubts out…
The availability of the iPhone 4 from Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) on the Verizon Wireless network is expected to be be a big win for the carrier, a joint venture between Verizon…
Our feature of “The Unusual Suspects” is back after not having enough consistent planned events during the last two weeks of the holidays. We have earnings due, cases happening, FDA events, mergers,…
The old perpetually restructuring Motorola is now gone, reverse splits have taken place, and the new companies are trading on the NYSE. Starting today, we have the official launch of the two…
