The super committee makes no significant decisions on the budget deficit. (Reuters) The largest shareholder in Olympus cuts its position. (Reuters) Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) launches its new music service. (Reuters) Germany and…
So little is left of Eastman Kodak (NYSE: EK), at least in terms of common equity value, that the board should let shareholders do what they can to salvage what remains of…
Facebook hit by a bug that put porn and graphic violence images onto many pages. (Reuters) Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) names Walt Disney (NYSE: DIS) CEO Robert Iger to its board. (Reuters) Dell…
The economic choppiness is coming to a head with the age of dividend hikes. The pressure is going to remain for companies to continue returning capital to shareholders while also looking for…
No one knows quite how Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) will make money on its Android mobile OS. Some of the software in the OS may violate Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) and Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) patents.…
Japan has a corporate scandal all of its own, proof the larceny and bad management are without borders. An investigation into hundreds of million of dollars in concealed losses at Olympus has…
On a visit to Taiway yesterday, Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) chairman Eric Schmidt told smartphone makers that the company will support its manufacturing partners “because we think the Apple thing is not…
Greece will announce its new government today. (Reuters) Inflation in China drops in October. (Reuters) Olympus investment losses may have gone above $1 billion. (Reuters) Silvio Berlusconi leaves as prime minister of…
If you trust BMO Capital Markets, it looks like ARM Holdings PLC (NASDAQ: ARMH) has more upside than Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC). In a switch around call, BMO raised ARM Holdings to “Outperform”…
Shares in Sprint Nextel Corp. (NYSE: S) and Nokia Corp. (NYSE: NOK) are both down more than -5% in mid-afternoon trading today. There’s not specific news to account for the drop, but…
When Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) reported that it sold 17 million iPhones in the third quarter of this year, that meant that the company’s smartphone market share fell from about 17.4% to…
Japan acts to lower the yen before the upcoming G20 meeting. (Reuters) Beacon Power (NASDAQ: BCON), backed by U.S. funds, goes bankrupt. (Reuters) Young and well-educated Greeks begin to leave the country.…
Walmart (NYSE: WMT) will begin to cut hours at some of its 24-hour stores, a sign of flagging traffic as the holiday retail period begins. Walmart has been in the process of…
Samsung boasted that it sold more smartphones than Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) in the third quarter, but it may not have made much money in the process. Volume is nearly useless without margins.…
The failure of the new Nintendo 3DS and upgraded Wii have caused the Japanese company troubles similar to those faced by Motorola, Research In Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM), and Nokia (NYSE: NOK) in…
