ThinkstockVerizon Talks with Vodafone Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ) apparently wants to buy out the 45% of Verizon Wireless it does not own. The other portion is owned by Vodafone Group PLC…
Wikimedia CommonsIf several media reports are true, Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ: AMZN) will release a set-top box through which consumers can stream premier video content. Even with its huge customer base and tremendous…
Earnings season is still in overdrive. Many companies are meeting or just beating earnings expectations, but the bias has been toward coming in light on revenues. We have seen many corporate earnings…
thinkstockAs with any earnings season, the results that have come in so far for the first quarter of this year have been mixed. There have been some winners and some losers, and…
Jon OggStocks have enjoyed a serious bull market, and we still have the S&P 500 Index and the Dow Jones Industrial Average both up by double digits so far in 2013. As…
ThinkstockRackspace Hosting Inc. (NYSE: RAX) has been an incredible story of growth from remote storage. Now that the share price of Rackspace has come back down to earth, we wanted to take…
Jon OggInvestors often get to see many Buy ratings from Wall St. analysts, but they often do not see when these analysts give lists of stocks to sell nor when the analysts have very cautious…
courtesy of AppleThe patent and intellectual property lawsuits among the world’s leaders in consumer hardware and software products may never come to an end. They have involved, at the very least, huge…
U.S. equity markets opened higher this morning, but struggled to stay in positive territory for most of the morning. There was little economic data released today. In Asia, Hong Kong’s consumer price…
courtesy of MicrosoftManagement inside Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) may be happy to see that their shares are worth more than 3%, versus when they went home for the weekend on Friday. CNBC’s…
courtesy of Apple Inc.Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) keeps getting weaker and weaker ahead of earnings. Maybe this week is finally the charm. On Monday morning we have seen two analyst upgrades from…
U.S. equity markets opened mixed this morning as the DJIA was slammed by a number of weak earnings reports both last night and before markets opened this morning. The was no economic…
Jon OggThe bull market had no economic announcements to propel stocks on Friday. Most earnings reports in the past 48 hours from Dow Jones Industrial Average companies have been lackluster, but investors…
courtesy of IBMInternational Business Machine Corp. (NYSE: IBM) has lost the capacity for revenue growth. The troubling trend began a long time ago. Its recent earnings confirmed that the huge tech firm…
courtesy of MicrosoftThe most recent quarterly results of Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) and Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) show that the growth rates of the two are not terribly different. Given that Microsoft…
