Leave it to Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) to grab a headline on the same day that Nokia Corp. (NYSE: NOK) reveals a tie-up with Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT). Bloomberg cites “people who…
NokiaMicrosoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) won a huge victory today. Struggling handset company Nokia (NYSE: NOK), which is still the global leader in its industry, will use Redmond’s mobile OS in its smartphones. Nokia…
Game maker Activision Blizzard, Inc. (NASDAQ: ATVI) posted unimpressive fourth quarter results after the market closed last night, and to make matters worse, offered a weaker-than-expected outlook for the current quarter and…
Bernanke warned that sharp budget cuts could derail the recovery. (Reuters) The Hong Kong exchange said it was open to mergers after marriages began between North American and European exchanges. (Reuters) Facebook…
Data released by comScore about mobile phone sales in December showed that trends from earlier in the year continued. Sales of Samsung handsets bested all of its rivals in the US with…
Regulators will push to keep Wall St. firms from side stepping regulations on financial firm pay. (Reuters) Toyota Motor’s (NYSE: TM) fiscal third quarter profits fell but it increased it forecast for…
A number of news media have recently reported that Nokia (NYSE: NOK) CEO Stephen Elop will replace a large number of the top managers at the world’s largest cellphone company. Among the…
Video game retailer GameStop Corp. (NYSE:GME) today authorized a boost of $500 million in its share buyback program, replacing a $300 million authorization made in September 2010, and about half of which…
Facebook is now worth $50 billion and has become the hottest property on the Internet. The problem is that the site may find it more difficult to generate revenue than many imagine.…
Corporate turnarounds are almost never engineered by a single person. A CEO who takes a failing company and makes it successful again obviously got help from management, a board, along with customers…
Games-maker Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS) is getting a boost in share price today following a better-than-expected third fiscal quarter earnings report, and a buoyant outlook. That outlook depends on extending its…
BP plc (NYSE: BP) may face US charges that it manipulated gas prices. (Reuters) Roche said that regulations in the US could harms its results. (Reuters) Borders Group (NYSE: BGP) may file…
NokiaStandard & Poor’s suspects that the new strategy from Nokia Corp. (NYSE: NOK), set to be announced February 11th, is not going to be enough to boost the company’s competitive position in…
Companies locked in a struggle to remain viable and maintain their profits and sales sometimes begin to run out of customers. This happened to GM (NYSE: GM), which had a 50% share…
Verizon Communications, Inc. (NYSE: VZ) has agreed to acquire Terremark Worldwide, Inc. (NASDAQ: TMRK) in an all-cash deal worth about $1.4 billion. Verizon will pay $19/share for Terremark, which is no doubt…
