Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT), which has failed to catch Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) in search, is now trying to battle it the in mobile operating systems market. It’s a longshot at best.…
Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) may be late to launch a line of smartphones with its Windows 7 Mobile OS, but it plans to make up for that with a major foray into the…
Reuters: Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HP) named the former CEO of SAP (NYSE: SAP) as CEO and a former president of Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) as chairman. Reuters: A trade by Waddell & Reed Financial…
Reuters: China said legislation aimed at a devaluation of the yuan violated WTO regulations. Reuters: IPOs do poorly in the People’s Republic now but can raise money from overseas investors. Reuters: The…
Democrats in the U.S. Senate were dead wrong to try and punish U.S. companies for shipping jobs overseas. The effort was thwarted by the Republican minority but is not going away in…
Updated throughout the day. American International Group (NYSE: AIG) is close to a deal to make good on its obligations to the Treasury. (Reuters) BMW and Saab may set up an engine…
The term “innovation” is difficult to quantify when it comes to large companies across different industries. 24/7 Wall St. chose to look at global patent filings, filings by field, and increases in…
Short sellers increased their positions in a number of telecom and tech stocks. Shares sold short in AT&T (NYSE: T) rose 14% to 58.2 million. The short interest in Verizon (NYSE: VZ)…
Active traders and day traders have several key stocks to watch. We are tracking moves in Adobe Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADBE), Biogen Idec Inc. (NASDAQ: BIIB), Deutsche Bank AG (NYSE: DB), Microsoft…
The recession is, by the standard measurement, over. The National Bureau of Economic Research’s Business Cycle Dating Committee said the downturn ended in June 2009. Most polls of individuals and company executives…
Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) has struggled with a stock price which is stuck where it was five years ago. The world’s largest software company’s revenue in its last fiscal year is not much…
The concerns that people have about employment are supposed to get better and not worse as the economy comes out of a recession. That is not true among most Americans, according to…
Douglas A. McIntyre Reuters: White House adviser Larry Summers will leave. Reuters: There is more support in Washington to press China hard on the yuan. Reuters: The prime minister of Japan said its intervention on…
Twitter has, by most estimates, 100 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…
MarketWatch: The Chinese let the yuan rise perhaps because of pressure from the US. Reuters: The BHP Billiton (NYSE: BHP) bid for Potash (NYSE: POT) may go into 2011 as the Australian…
