Investment firm Sterne Agee has lowered its estimates on Research in Motion Ltd. (NASDAQ: RIMM) while maintaining its ‘neutral’ rating on the company. Sterne Agee noted in its report that RIM’s “Blackberry…
Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) is in patent talks with Facebook. The portal claims that the social network has used some of its intellectual property without permission or license fees. Yahoo!’s claims are based on…
Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) threatens a patent suit against Facebook, citing a number of violations. (Reuters) TransCanada (NYSE: TRP) cuts the length of its Keystone XL pipeline in the hopes of finishing some…
The Windows Phone 7 operating system from Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) shipped on 2.7 million smartphones in the fourth quarter of 2011. Microsoft’s leading handset vendor was Nokia Corp. (NYSE: NOK), the…
A panel suggests that Vivus diet drug Qnexa be approved by the FDA. (Reuters) Japan may cut crude oil imports from Iran by 20%. (Reuters) Poor results cause shares of Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ)…
If you want to know what is hurting Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) and helping Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT), it may be nothing more than continued chatter about an index rebalancing act by…
Apple wants to sue Kodak over patent infringement. Since Kodak is in Chapter 11, Apple has to ask the court which has supervised the process. The suit is part of a very…
In another round of the global intellectual war between Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) and Samsung, Apple has filed a lawsuit in the US which claims the South Korean firm violates four of its patents.…
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) has been hitting new all-time highs of late, and analysts have been ratcheting up their price targets. We recently noted one analyst call for a $665 price target…
The U.S. and state attorneys general reach a $25 billion settlement with five banks over mortgage abuses. (Reuters) The Hong Kong division of Alibaba may go private as part of a refinancing…
An monthly rite among tech reporters is to cover the NPD Group video game data. The information shows which of the three large console companies–Micorosft, with its Xbox, Nintendo, and Sony which makes the…
The search engine wars are rarely front page news any more. Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) has had two third of the US market for so long that the positions of its competitors hardly…
Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) is preparing to distribute computers with a version of its upcoming Windows 8 operating system for devices using ARM processors from ARM Holdings plc (NASDAQ: ARMH). This marks…
Investment firm Canaccord Genuity said today in its daily newsletter that Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) garners about 80% of the operating profit among all handset makers. Of $14.4 billion in industry profit,…
Sometime next week, the US Department of Justice is expected to give its stamp of approval to Google Inc.’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. (NYSE: MMI) and…
