Telephone handset maker Nokia Corp. (NYSE: NOK) posted a loss of -$1.4 billion early this morning as the company’s sales of smartphones has all but disappeared and operating margins have fallen to…
For the first time in a long time, short sellers have increased their bets that the stock prices of most large companies and in most large sectors will fall. The NYSE and…
Nintendo earnings collapsed and so did its forecast. The firm said it would launch a new version of the Wii by year end in the hope that it can reverse its fortunes. That…
Just because you’re retired doesn’t mean you don’t have to work. As of the end of last year, 7.3% of Americans 75 and older were employed — the highest level since 1966,…
Apple’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) extraordinary earnings and the size of its iPhone sales helped move its market cap well above $400 billion. The press constantly reminds readers that this is greater than any…
Yahoo!’s (NASDAQ: YHOO) earnings were weak, which raised the matter of a business combination with Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) or Aol (NYSE: AOL) again. A more suitable merger would be with a major…
Shares of Nokia Corp. (NYSE: NOK) are tumbling today following a glum forecast from one of the company’s main chip suppliers. ST-Ericsson, a joint venture between STMicroelectronics N.V. (NYSE: STM) and LM…
It was no accident that Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) earnings were good and Google’s bad (NASDAQ: GOOG). The assumption that search is one of the best businesses in the world has proved inaccurate.…
Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) shares stumbled after it released fourth-quarter earnings. Revenue rose 25%, but net income barely rose to $2.7 billion. The markets were puzzled about why Google now has 32,467 full-time workers,…
Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) has posted its earnings after the close and the tempering of estimates before earnings seems to have been more or less the right call. The software giant’s second…
Jon C. Ogg Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) is set to report earnings after the close of trading Thursday. The software giant has already tempered some PC sales expectations at the Consumer Electronics Show, which was…
The powerful surge of purchases of the Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone 4S has helped close the gap between Apple smartphones and those which run the Google Android based OS. According to Nielsen…
Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) is trading higher after the announced departure (a firing no doubt) of Jerry Yang in all functions of the company he co-founded. After the resignation news, Gabelli &…
Jon C. Ogg Research In Motion Limited (NASDAQ: RIMM) has been the ongoing subject of takeover rumors and that has put in at least a near-term floor after the death spiral took away three-quarters of…
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) is expected to announce a new version of its iPad tablet by the end of March. There is plenty of speculation about what will be included in the…
