Microsoft Sweden, via Wikimedia Commons In a surprise announcement this morning, Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) revealed that CEO Steve Ballmer “has decided to retire” from the company within the next 12 months. Ballmer’s…
courtesy GameStop Corp.It is very well known that the video game sector is about to get an entire refresh cycle. Sony Corp. (NYSE: SNE) is launching a new PlayStation and Microsoft Corp.…
courtesy of Hewlett-PackardHewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ) is still in the beginnings of its long-term turnaround under CEO Meg Whitman. Earnings were not so bad, but there is this continued erosion in the core…
via Wikimedia CommonsAfter five years at the top of the heap, Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) has relinquished its top spot in comScore Inc.’s (NASDAQ: SCOR) ranking of the top 50 U.S. Web properties.…
Jon OggNow that stocks have pulled back and interest rates have risen, investors are looking for more guidance on which stocks they should still buy and which stocks they should sell or…
courtesy GameStop Corp.Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) announced on Tuesday at the Gamescom show the names of 23 titles that will available at the launch of its new Xbox One game controller now…
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…
