This was no good week for stocks even if the markets have bounced off the lows numerous times on Friday. The low of the DJIA on Friday morning of 10,638 was down…
It is old news that Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) sells more iPads by a huge margin than any rival can sell other tablet PCs. Apple is so successful that it is almost unfair.…
Just in case anyone believed that Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) was being seriously threatened by competitors to its iPad tablet, that belief can probably be put to rest for a few years.…
Computer peripherals maker Logitech International SA (NASDAQ: LOGI) has been having a tough year and its going to get tougher. The company posted an EPS loss of -$0.17 in its first fiscal…
There may be a few financiers and hedge fund managers at the top of the Forbes 400 rich list. Most of the people on it, however, are individuals who have founded or…
Advertising revenue at the New York Times (NYSE: NYT) will be off 8% in the third quarter, according the company’s CEO, Janet Robinson. She made the comments at a gathering of analysts.…
Web site visitors didn’t set any records last month, but they also didn’t lose any ground. Among the leading sites, some had small gains and others had small losses. Overall though, more…
Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) posts strong earnings due to corporate IT strength. (Reuters) Federal Reserve probably will ease monetary policy to help a struggling economy. (Reuters) GM’s (NYSE: GM) labor deal will create…
Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), with too much cash and too little growth in Wall St.’s opinion, increased its dividend. But, investors could well be wrong. Microsoft may be about to experience a surge…
Today marks another milestone for Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL). You might see a new 52-week high of $411.00, but that is no ordinary 52-week high. That is an all-time high! Dominance of…
Some companies become so badly damaged because of changes in the competitive markets or due to poor management decisions that their employees lose hope. This may be due to the fact that…
Parties of Merkel and allies parties beaten in Berlin elections. (Reuters) Obama jobs plan geared toward Democrat voters. (Reuters) Greece must take more austerity measures to get bailout money. (Reuters) Moody’s bias…
Carol Bartz, former Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) CEO, was right about one thing. The only way to substantially improve margins was to fire thousands of people. A new owner, if there is one,…
Douglas A. McIntyre The borrow-a-patent, rent-a-patent, buy-a-patent industry is growing by the day. Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) just bought 1,023 patents from IBM (NYSE: IBM). The big hardware company will hardly miss them. It files more…
UBS (NYSE: UBS) trader loses $2 billion in unapproved trades. (Reuters) The head of the World Bank says the global economy has entered a danger zone. (Reuters) General Motors (NYSE: GM) and…
