Sales of video games fell by 10% in June according to market research firm NPD Group, from $1.15 billion in June 2010 to $1.03 billion. This past May was even worse, with…
Hitachi and Mitsubishi may merge (Reuters) Japan intervened in the yen (Reuters) Spain will offer bonds and the European Central Bank meets to examine option to help the country’s debt problems (Reuters)…
Vonage Holdings Corporation (NYSE: VG) is now a consistently profitable company. Concerns remain, but the focus so far seems to be more on the positive side of the equation. The VoIP telephony…
Smartphone maker Research in Motion Ltd. (NASDAQ: RIMM) has released five new phones this morning, including one, gasp, that does not have a keyboard. While shares are getting a bounce pre-market, this…
Fitch and Moody’s kept the U.S. rating at Aaa (Reuters) Years of slow growth and aging populations in the West could hasten the rise of BRIC economies (Reuters) Google+ (NASDAQ: GOOG) and…
Google’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) Android mobile OS has the largest share of the smartphone market worldwide, research company Canalys reports. Based on its survey of 56 countries, Android’s share was 48% in the second…
The trend among short sellers for the last two months is that they gamble against shares in the weakest public companies. Perhaps they sense that an economic downturn or U.S. debt default…
The odds that the U.S. will default on its debt on or after August 2 increase each day. Some credit analysts believe the odds are in favor of insolvency. In the event…
NokiaWhy does troubled handset company Nokia (NYSE: NOK) own NAVTEQ, which is a map and traffic software company? The unit competes with several powerful rivals, including Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), Google (NASDAQ: GOOG),…
Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) posted strong results, but Windows revenue may continue to drop as PC sales fade (Reuters) The Justice Department will look into whether the advertising operations of News Corp (NYSE:…
Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) appears to be yet one more titan of tech that has managed to beat earnings. While its shares will likely never again see the former peak, the numbers…
Jon C. Ogg Germany and France reached a deal on how to handle the Greek debt crisis (MarketWatch) China’s PMI growth rate slowed to the lowest level since July 2010 (MarketWatch) Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) may…
Some of the best known publicly traded companies in the world have stocks that will never reach their all-time highs again. Many of them are not troubled firms. In a number of…
Earnings dominated the press coverage of today’s shares. Novartis and Harley-Davidson released numbers Icahn Enterprise was thumped after it made a bid for Clorox, which was rejected. Boeing was hit because large…
Parliament will question Rupert Murdoch of News Corp (NYSE: NWS) today (Reuters) IBM’s (NYSE: IBM) service business rose, driving earnings up (Reuters) Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) will fire 15% of its workers (Reuters)…
