courtesy of Apple Inc.In a refrain we’ve all heard more than once already, research firm comScore Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR) reported today that the U.S. market share leader among smartphone manufacturers is Apple…
Frank Golhen, via Wikimedia CommonsThe news of the Dow Jones Industrial Average hitting new highs this week is certainly good news. The problem is that the news comes with some serious caveats.…
courtesy of Facebook Inc.Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) and Beats Electronics discuss a content partnership. (Reuters) The European Union will fine Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) for violating agreements about use of its browser.…
courtesy of Google Inc.Two things happened very recently that might halt the adoption of Google Inc.’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) Android operating system, which is used in the majority of smartphones around the world. The first is…
ThinkstockDuring the bull market for technology stocks in the 1990s, investors eagerly awaited the quarterly results from the large-cap technology leaders. The personal computer was being totally integrated into the home and…
President Obama suggests cuts in Social Security and Medicare to end a battle over budget cuts. (Reuters) Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. (NYSE: BMY) may try a large acquisition to improve its fortunes. (WSJ)…
ThinkstockThough the Internet is made up of tens of millions of websites, people spend the vast majority of time on just a handful of sites. According to comScore, an Internet analytics company,…
courtesy of NetflixChina’s PMI slips to a slow 50.1 in February, a signal of slacking demand for manufactured goods. (Reuters) Groupon Inc. (NASDAQ: GRPN) fires its CEO after poor financial performance. (Reuters)…
ThinkstockThe second half of last year was supposed to bring some improvement in server sales following a first half during which customers were sitting on their wallets waiting for new products. The…
The Fidelity Contrafund has released its 2012 annual report for its shareholders. While the date is December 31, 2012, and the asset size is listed as more than $84 billion as of…
thinkstockWe have tracked the key short interest changes as of February 15 in the following large cap stocks: General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE), Nokia Corp. (NYSE: NOK), Bank of America Corp. (NYSE:…
ThinkstockThe conventional wisdom is that old media online content gets trumped every time by new media properties, at least when it comes to ad revenue. This does not have to be the…
Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ) wants back into the tablet market, an effort that the company previously jettisoned under prior misguided leadership. What is so different about this effort here is that the…
courtesy of Hewlett-PackardHewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ) is hitting the morning wire with a couple of big stories. Yesterday the company said that it was preparing a 7-inch tablet, called the Slate 7,…
courtesy of MicrosoftMicrosoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) got hacked like almost every other large tech company has been over the last several weeks. The world’s largest software firm said there was nothing to worry…
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