ThinkstockPortugal Austerity Ruling The highest court in Portugal ruled that some of the austerity measures to be employed by the government to curtail deficits are not constitutional. In reaction, the central government…
courtesy of MicrosoftThe worldwide market for combined shipments of PCs, tablets and mobile phones is expected to total 2.4 billion units in 2013, rising to nearly 3 billion units by 2017. It…
Most Wall St. firms are divided by the unit that calls on the retail or high net worth client, and the unit that calls on institutional clients. They both generally benefit from…
courtesy of MicrosoftResearch firm Gartner has forecast that fast-moving trends in the world of computing and operating systems will ruin Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) within five years. The Guardian reports: Microsoft faces…
Douglas A. McIntyre ThinkstockBuzz on Facebook Home A day after Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) announced its “Home” smartphone product, reviews about the both the phone and its effect on the future of the social network…
courtesy of Apple Inc.For the three months ending in February 2013, Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) widened its lead over Samsung Electronics as the top smartphone OEM in the U.S. by nearly 4%.…
Jon OggInvestors and traders are always on the lookout for new ideas that will generate positive returns or income for their portfolio. 24/7 Wall St. looks over numerous research calls to find…
The markets may have topped and are acting choppy after Fed speak and after North Korean rhetoric, but U.S. investors can count on several big dividend hikes that we see as being…
Courtesy Research in Motion Ltd.The latest data from Kantar Worldpanel does not tell us a lot that we didn’t already know. The most popular smartphone platform in the United States for the…
ThinkstockThe reason that China, the Chinese, and probably many of the largest companies in the People’s Republic steal intellectual property is that they have so little of their own. Among the top…
ThinkstockChina has alienated U.S. companies and the federal government by what is clearly the hacking of American-based websites from inside the borders of the People’s Republic. The exact location of the hacking…
ThinkstockCredit Suisse has reviewed and screened the holdings of 857 large cap mutual funds and has seen that technology is very well represented in the top holdings on average at this universe…
ThinkstockWe have tracked the key short interest changes as of March 15 in the following large cap stocks: General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE), Nokia Corp. (NYSE: NOK), Bank of America Corp. (NYSE:…
ThinkstockThis might be one of those times that’s it difficult to tell the players even with a scorecard. The battle for control of the living room is about to be joined in…
courtesy of General Electric Co.No company, perhaps other than Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT), is revisited by investors for its failure to grow and prosper more than General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE). The…
