According to several media sources, Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) has signed a confidentiality agreement with Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) that would allow the software giant access to Yahoo! financial statements and senior management. Microsoft has…
Douglas A. McIntyre Last quarter, China passed the U.S. as the world’s largest smartphone market. That means the fortunes of companies like Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) will be decided as much in China as in the U.S. Some…
Stocks opened a bit lower this morning, but almost immediately turned around without being able to break through the opening numbers. Revised third-quarter US GDP numbers were worse than expected, falling to…
These are some of Tuesday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls. Amgen Inc. (NASDAQ: AMGN) Cut to Market Perform at BMO. AutoNation Inc. (NYSE: AN) Raised to…
The supercommittee appears unlikely to settle on a deficit agreement. (Reuters) A senior Chinese official says he expects the global recession to last for some time. (Reuters) Spain’s center-right People’s Party gains…
Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) should have bought Facebook four years ago, when it might have had to pay only a few billion dollars. Since then, the social network has cruised past MSN, Aol…
Douglas A. McIntyre Greek citizens stage large protests. (Reuters) Citigroup (NYSE: C), Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) and Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) could be affected when S&P updates its credit ratings on the world’s 30 largest…
Among the hundreds of technology stocks, there are a relative handful of companies that stand out as bellwethers for the entire industry. Some are on the list for historical reasons; others are…
Concerns about the price of oil have returned after a summer in which both crude and gasoline prices fell. Slow production from OPEC nations is not to blame. Libyan production is actually…
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…
