ThinkstockThe past year was a tale of two products for semiconductor makers. Makers of the brains for desktop and laptops PCs had a tough year, while chipmakers focused on mobile devices like…
U.S. equity markets opened about flat this morning, then ticked upward briefly before moving to lows in the early afternoon. Treasury secretary Timothy Geithner said that the country’s debt ceiling will be…
ThinkstockWe have tracked the key short interest changes as of November 30th in the following semiconductor leaders: Intel Corp. (NASDAQ: INTC), Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (NYSE: AMD), Micron Technology Inc. (NASDAQ: MU),…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen in Wall St. research calls this Thursday. With this being the week of Christmas, analyst upgrades and downgrades are…
Semiconductor maker Marvell Technology has been ordered by a Pittsburgh jury to pay Carnegie Mellon University $1.17 billion in a patent infringement suit. The jury’s verdict is subject to post-trial motions and…
courtesy of YouTubeRetailers press post-holiday discounts to make up for poor sales earlier in the cycle. (Reuters) Toyota Motor Corp. (NYSE: TM) will pay $1.1 billion to settle U.S. class action suits…
ThinkstockAlmost exactly a year ago, Intel Corp. (NASDAQ: INTC) projected that sales of the company’s heavily promoted Ultrabook computers would account for 40% of all notebook shipments in 2012. Taiwan’s Digitimes, however,…
ThinkstockWe have tracked the key short interest changes as of November 30 in the following semiconductor leaders: Intel Corp. (NASDAQ: INTC), Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (NYSE: AMD), Micron Technology Inc. (NASDAQ: MU),…
ThinkstockWe have tracked the key short interest changes as of November 15 in the following semiconductor leaders: Intel Corp. (NASDAQ: INTC), Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (NYSE: AMD), Micron Technology Inc. (NASDAQ: MU),…
U.S. equity markets opened flat this morning following not much in the way of data from either Asia or Europe. In Europe, German Chancellor Angela Merkel wants the European Central Bank to…
U.S. equity markets opened higher this morning but quickly turned south and bounced around lower all day. In Europe, the eurozone notched its second consecutive quarter of negative GDP growth, tossing the…
ThinkstockWe have tracked the key short interest changes as of October 31 in the following semiconductor leaders: Intel Corp. (NASDAQ: INTC), Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (NYSE: AMD), Micron Technology Inc. (NASDAQ: MU),…
We have tracked the key short interest changes as of October 15 in the following semiconductor leaders: Intel Corp. (NASDAQ: INTC), Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (NYSE: AMD), Micron Technology Inc. (NASDAQ: MU),…
The three major U.S. stock indexes opened lower this morning, but the blame goes to some poor earnings report from U.S. firms rather than to international news. European markets were down slightly…
The stock market is down Friday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average down 0.70%, the Nasdaq down 0.64% and the S&P 500 down 0.52%. Today’s sole winner is a networking hardware firm…
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