24/7 Wall St. wrote Baidu (NASDAQ: BIDU) and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) about their new English search joint venture and the response was “Baidu and Microsoft announced that Bing, Microsoft’s decision engine, will…
Congress and the Administration are closer to a conclusion of negotiations on the debt cap (Reuters) The finance minister of Greece said its viability is essential to the euro zone (Reuters) Canon…
Twitter has, by most estimates, 225 million members, which makes it one of the largest social networks in the world. All major media companies are on Twitter and some have more than…
There are several ways in which companies can return money to shareholders, but the two most common methods of returning cash to shareholders are dividends and stock buybacks. Dividends are rarely controversial…
Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) launched its new cloud product, Office 365. Many of the business clients of the world’s largest software company no longer want Office to run on their PCs and servers.…
Updated throughout the day. Germany’s big banks will meet to discuss Greek debt (Bloomberg) Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) will release a cloud-based version of Office (Bloomberg) Douglas A. McIntyre
Douglas A. McIntyre Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) will launch a cloud version of Office to compete with Google (NASDAQ: GOOG). (Reuters) Oil fell on Greek debt concerns. (Reuters) Sony (NYSE: SNE) said its protected content made…
courtesy Facebook Inc.Everyone wants to get a piece of Facebook. Shares have been sold by the company and shares have been sold by employees and insiders on private market exchanges. Now a…
China is worried that inflation will be above the government goal and result in higher interest rates as its economy slows. (Reuters) David Solomon may be the next CEO of Goldman Sachs.…
Updated throughout the day. French aerospace firm Safran will pay 4 billion euros for Italian company Avio. (La Lettre de L’Expansion) Airbus may increase production A320 due to strong demand (WSJ) Microsoft…
Douglas A. McIntyre Nokia (NYSE: NOK) will launch its new N9 Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) Windows-powered smartphone later this year. It does so as the entire industry faces slowing sales and a dizzying number of new…
Fitch said a voluntary roll-over of Greece sovereign debt would be viewed as a default. (Reuters) This week is critical to US budget talks as an August 2 deadline looms. (Reuters) Wal-Mart…
Updated throughout the day Japan’s PM told associations what the terms of his resignation would be (Kyoto) Ford (NYSE: F) will spend $1 billion to upgrade Lincoln (WSJ) Airbus received a $17.2…
We have a lot to expect from the cast of characters in what we call The Unusual Suspects in the coning week. We will be watching trading in shares of Apple Inc.…
Research in Motion Ltd. (NASDAQ: RIMM) is about to come clean on its earnings report. Needless to say, expectations are low and our take is that anyone who thinks that guidance won’t…
