Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) is on deck to report earnings Thursday, October 28, 2010 after the close. Microsoft used to be report at least in the middle of the pack of tech…
Jon C. Ogg These are some of this Monday’s key analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls. Altera Corp. (NASDAQ: ALTR) Started as Hold at Deutsche Bank. Ansys Inc. (NASDAQ: ANSS)…
Earnings season is in full swing and the peak will occur next week. We have several DJIA components reporting earnings along with several other companies which are equally as important to the…
Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) has begun to show its new Slate tablet PC. The company still guards some details about the machine, but the media has ferreted out a bit about how the…
The search engine as a key part of the internet was born with the products of companies such as Altavista back in the late 1990s. The usefulness of search to consumers advanced…
“Double Irish” and “Dutch Sandwich” sounds like action movies or detective novels. The last thing that anyone would suspect them to be were sophisticated tax avoidance strategies that save Google Inc. (GOOG)…
Reuters: Wall St. was disappointed by Yahoo!’s (NASDAQ: YHOO) revenue forecast. Reuters: French police unblocked the fuel deposites held by strikers against auterity. Reuters: The CEO of Research In Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM)…
Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Wednesday morning. We are tracking news and moves in shares of Some of the most active stocks or largest moves…
Skeptics have asked, fairly, why Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) should have a larger market capitalization than Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ), Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), and IBM (NYSE: IBM). The answer is that Apple’s growth…
These are some of this Thursday’s key analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls. Agrium Inc. (NYSE: AGU) Removed from TD’s Action Buy List but target raised to…
The personal computer business is changing. In some ways the changes are better, but in many ways the changes are not good for the sector. Gartner Group’s Q3 preliminary data showed growth…
WSJ: Private equity interests and AOL (NYSE: AOL) may make a bid for Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO). Reuters: RealtyTrac said the number of homes taken by foreclosure topped 100,000 for the first time…
Loose lips sink ships. Maybe mergers are not as secretive as discussing military secrets, but the world of M&A and private equity has some new buzz: AOL Inc. (NYSE: AOL) is considering…
Reuters: Geithner says there is no risk of a global currency war. Reuters: Hedge fund investors favor the stock market Reuters: Oil moved above $82 as China crude imports grew. Reuters: Sony…
There doesn’t seem to be too much excitement among the technorati for the new Windows Phone 7 operating system from Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ:MSFT). The comments generally replay the “too little, too late”…
