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Consumer Electronics
Apple Grows U.S. Smartphone Share Ahead of New iPhone Launch
For the three months ending in June, Samsung Electronics gained 1.6% of U.S. smartphone market share, while Apple added 0.7%.
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Investing
The 4 Stocks That Lifted the Market
thinkstockAugust 4, 2014: Markets opened higher Monday morning on the strength of technology and consumer discretionary stocks. There was no economic data published today and the Dow 30 blue chips posted the…
10:25am ET
Investing
UBS Adds New Stocks to Buy to Its Equity Focus List
With interest rates still at historic lows, the stock market is ultimately the only destination for investor capital, and dividend-paying stocks make good sense in volatile markets.
4:01pm ET
Investing
The 4 Stocks That Held the DJIA in Check
thinkstockJuly 28, 2014: Markets opened mixed on Monday following a couple of significant merger announcements early in the morning. The only economic news out today was pending home sales, which slipped for…
10:15am ET
Investing
Credit Suisse’s Top Large-Cap Stocks Being Bought by Mutual Funds
An new report from Credit Suisse highlights the stocks where large-cap fund managers have been placing new bets the most. We screened those stocks for ones rated Outperform at Credit Suisse.
7:00am ET
Investing
The 5 Most Heavily Shorted Nasdaq Stocks: Who Bucked the Trend?
bfishshadow via Wikimedia CommonsShort sellers shied away from four of the top five most shorted stocks on the Nasdaq between the June 30 and July 15 settlement dates. The outlier was Frontier…
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Consumer Electronics
Xbox One to Be Sold in China, a Challenge for PS4
MicrosoftToday, China is a market that most software and hardware companies believe they must conquer if they are to expand what may be stagnant sales worldwide. The most recent example of this…
8:45am ET
Investing
Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades: DuPont, GE, King, Microsoft, Xilinx, McDonald’s and More
These are the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations from Wall Street firms for Wednesday, July 23, 2014. They include DuPont, General Electric, King, Microsoft, Xilinx and McDonald's.
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Technology
Microsoft Earnings Got Pounded by Nokia Losses
Microsoft reported mixed fiscal fourth-quarter results after markets closed Tuesday. The newly acquired Nokia business contributed an operating loss of $692 million, or $0.08 per share.
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Technology
America’s Most Visited Websites
By a variety of measurements, Google is the 800-pound gorilla of the Internet. It is by far the largest U.S. search engine and its various websites, including YouTube, attract the largest U.S.…
7:13am ET
Media
FoxNews.com, USAToday.com Top List of Internet News Sites
Results from the American Customer Satisfaction Index 2014 E-business study are bound to set off more debate about which network or newspaper delivers the best news and whether their political leanings are…
9:03am ET
Consumer Electronics
Xbox One Sales Doubled in June, Still Trail PlayStation
courtesy of Sony Corp.In a war of words, not numbers, Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) claimed last week that sales of its Xbox One doubled month-over-month in June. The company has not released…
7:45am ET
Jobs
Apple’s Reminder of Low Female Board Membership
The appointment of Susan L. Wagner, a senior executive of investment firm BlackRock, to Apple's board of directors is a reminder of how few woman sit on corporate boards.
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Technology
Google Search Advertising Continues Growth
Wikimedia Commons (Lee-Sean Huang)Ahead of the company’s second quarter earnings report after the bell on Thursday, Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) continued to dominate the search market with a 78% of a three-country…
12:15pm ET
Technology
Will Microsoft Exit Search?
We already know where the ax is going to fall most harshly in the 18,000 job cuts that Microsoft has announced -- Nokia. It did not say where the rest of the…