For the three months ending in May, Samsung Electronics gained 0.8% of the U.S. smartphone market, and Apple added 0.6% and continues to hold the market share lead.
courtesy of MicrosoftMicrosoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) has had two things going for it since Satya Nadella took over the role of Chief Executive Officer from Steve Ballmer. The most obvious is that…
Microsoft has completed its acquisition of the handset unit from Nokia. But Sterne Agee's Robert Breza rates Microsoft only as Neutral, and he has decided to ratchet down Microsoft's earnings expectations.
thinkstockJune 30, 2014: Markets opened mixed on Monday with both the S&P 500 and the DJIA opening lower and the Dow spending most of the day in negative territory. The Nasdaq index…
GoPro traded more than 44 million shares on Thursday, its first day as a public company. Shares closed up nearly 31%, and the buying didn't slow down until near noon on Friday.
Paul Ausick thinkstockJune 26, 2014: Markets opened lower for a fourth straight day on Thursday and spent much of the day trying to reach the break-even line. Claims for jobless benefits fell slightly last…
A surge in short interest in Apple shares between the May 30 and June 13 settlement dates was enough to lift the tech giant into the top five most shorted stocks on…
Google will release a set-top box into a market that is already crowded, so Google's chance of taking market share from incumbents is low.
Wikimedia CommonsOf the 30 stocks in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, a nearly infinite combination of their advances could put the index over 17,000 for the first time. The Dow stands at…
courtesy of Sony Corp.Sales video game consoles nearly doubled year-over-year to $187 million in May, and overall spending on hardware and software rose 52% to $586 million in the month. The PlayStation…
thinkstockJune 16, 2014: Markets opened lower on Monday but quickly bounced to positive territory. The IMF cut its forecast for U.S. GDP growth this year and investors will be cautious for the…
ThinkstockNuance Communications Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN) owes its fortunes back to the days of Lernout & Hauspie in the 1990s. Now the independent speech recognition leader is seeing its shares surge on reports…
courtesy of Ford Motor CompanyTwo factors are about ready to collide, and if history is any guide, the outcome could be ugly, at least for the short term. Since 1960, there have…
Intel reached a 52-week high after it announced its sales would be better than it had anticipated earlier in the year. Intel's news is almost certainly good for Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard.
thinkstockJune 13, 2014: Markets opened higher on Friday and even a weak report on consumer sentiment couldn’t keep equities down for long this morning. All three major indexes were pointed at weekly…
