courtesy of SamsungGlobal mobile phone sales totaled 435 million units in the second quarter of 2013, and of that total, some 225 million units, or 51.8%, were smartphones. That is the first…
courtesy of AOL, IncMaybe the era when firing people in public was acceptable has ended. Perhaps some executives can still get away with it. Clearly, Tim Armstrong of AOL Inc. (NYSE: AOL)…
Courtesy BlackBerrySome company is supposed to buy BlackBerry Ltd. (NASDAQ: BBRY), or at least that is what its board appears to believe. The way the smartphone corporation’s stock trades tells otherwise. After…
August 13, 2013: U.S. equity markets opened slightly higher this morning following a report on retail sales from the Census Bureau that was stronger than expected. Stocks turned south quickly though, as…
These are the top analyst downgrades, cautious research notes and stocks to sell from Wall Street for Tuesday, August 13, 2013. They include Allot Communications, Microsoft, Vical and First Solar.
With stocks within a few percentage points of all-time highs and with the stocks in a confirmed bull market, we wanted to consider the effect of stock splits in a time when market…
August 8, 2013: U.S. equity markets opened higher this morning after China reported that its trade surplus narrowed to $17.1 billion in July, well below an expected surplus of $27.2 billion. Elsewhere…
Investors and traders have seen three days of selling now and might want to consider looking for stock bargains in the malaise. 24/7 Wall St. reviews many fresh research calls each morning…
courtesy of Facebook Inc.The future often seems to knock at the door when you may not be ready. Facebook aficionados recently received a message from founder Mark Zuckerberg explaining that the social…
Jon C. Ogg ThinkstockLost in the frenzy of news coverage about the purchase of the Washington Post Company’s (NYSE: WPO) flagship by Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) founder Jeff Bezos is whether Amazon itself is doing…
courtesy of Apple Inc.For the three months ending in June 2013, Samsung Electronics closed the market share gap slightly between itself and Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) in the U.S. market. Compared with…
Last month when Nokia agreed to acquire the other half of its joint venture, Nokia Siemens Networks, from Siemens for $2.2 billion, we wondered what in the world the Finnish mobile phone…
courtesy of AOL, IncAOL Inc. (NYSE: AOL) reported second-quarter 2013 results before markets opened this morning. The online media and brand company posted diluted earnings per share (EPS) of $0.35 on revenues…
Paul Ausick Brian Solis, via Wikimedia CommonsOn the day that Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) came public last year, more than 580 million shares of the company’s stock changed hands. No other trading day since…
courtesy of AppleThe world knows that the tablet market has disrupted the PC market, and most of us expect that this trend will only remain in place. IDC has released its second-quarter…
