For the three months ending in November, Apple grew its share of the U.S. smartphone market by 0.5%, according to latest report on the U.S. smartphone market from comScore. Samsung Electronics grew…
Several small but well-known companies have dumped the management structure that requires them to have a CEO. Could these actions, if effective, undermine the decades-long belief that business organizations have to be…
Into a market already awash with smartwatches, smartphones and voice recognition programs, Intel has decided to release its own programs. No one knows, however, if consumers even want to have these levels…
thinkstockJanuary 6, 2014: Markets opened slightly higher on Monday but had difficulty holding on to the opening gains. The DJIA closed up%, the S&P 500 closed down 0.03%, and the Nasdaq Composite…
thinkstockJanuary 3, 2014: Markets opened higher on Friday following yesterday’s sell-off. Gains and losses were modest throughout the trading day, with the three major indexes not moving far in either direction from…
While Apple's iPhone showed gains in its post-Christmas share of usage, its iPad did not fare as well. The iPhone was the only smartphone to post a usage share gain in the…
Which billionaires list is better, the one produced by Forbes, which is decades old, or the new list created by Bloomberg? The answer is that neither is better than the other, or…
Douglas A. McIntyre At some point, products become so advanced that further revolutionary enhancements become limited, and consumers begin to question the need for the next generation of products that have historically been upgraded rapidly.
The desktop, laptop and tablet markets are supposed to be dominated by Apple and Microsoft. But both face erosion of their leads by the same major culprit of the erosion that has…
There were 20 U.S. companies with $100 billion of sales or more in 2012. Amazon.com will join that short and elite list next year.
An early report on overall holiday sales -- online and in stores -- indicates that while sales rose, the rise was somewhat smaller than expected. The jump in online sales is the…
ThinkstockWith less than a week left in what has been the best year for the S&P 500 since 1997, we have reviewed our top Wall Street firms for their stocks priced under…
courtesy of AOL, IncThe battle between Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) and Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) for the lead in U.S. unique visitors continued into November. Once again, the portal edged out the search firm–based…
thinkstockDecember 24, 2013: Markets opened higher on a shortened Tuesday trading day. The Nasdaq bounced lower a few times in the first 90 minutes of trading, but soon enough sorted itself out.…
MicrosoftU.S. spending on digital games is declining. In 2012, the total spend was about $21.9 billion compared with an expected total of $20.5 billion in 2013. But the news isn’t all bad.…
