Reuters: Obama’s poll ratings on the economy dropped. Reuters: Bank of America (NYSE:BAC) picked insider Brian Moynihan as CEO. Reuters: Bernanke’s confirmation should pass its first hurdle. Reuters: The US delayed selling…
Updated throughout the day. Citigroup (NYSE:C) will be able to avoid about $38 billion in taxes under an agreement with the government (Washington Post) Playboy’s (NYSE:PLA) buyout talks with Iconix have fallen apart (Bloomberg) Goldman…
According to Reuters, EU regulators accepted a pledge by Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) to allow rival Internet browsers on its systems, ending a long antitrust dispute with the U.S. software maker. Competition Commissioner Neelie…
Douglas A. McIntyre AT&T (NYSE:T) is running out of potential customers to sell wireless handset subscriptions. The US market is nearly saturated and the battle is mostly for market share with Verizon Wireless (NYSE:VZ)(NYSE:VOD), Sprint…
Some of the largest websites in the country had extraordinary swings in their audiences in 2009. Many of the most well-known web destinations lost large portions of their traffic Based on data from…
These are this Tuesday’s top ten analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from early Wall Street research calls: American Electric Power (NYSE: AEP) Cut to Hold at Jefferies. Arcelor Mittal (NYSE: MT)…
Corporate IT spending will pick up in the first quarter of 2010. That is the finding of a new research survey from ChangeWave. A total of 1,753 respondents involved with corporate IT spending…
The Top Fifty websites based on their percent of US online visits from January to November 2009 are dominated by search and e-mail. The top dozen sites according to data from Hitwise include…
M&A activity picked up in the second half of 2009 as the market moved up and access to capital for big companies improved. Corporate debt offerings soared and banks began to make…
Updated throughout the day. Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) will buy Opalis Software (Barron’s) Updated 9.47 AM EST The CEO of Bank of New York (NYSE:BK) is once again a candidate for the top jobs…
The holiday shopping season and price cuts are not helping video game sales. November figures from industry research firm NPD show sales of software and consoles in the US dropped almost 8% to…
Short sellers sharply increased their gamble that financial stocks would fall based on short selling data from NYSE and Nasdaq on the last day of November. Shorts pushed into Citigroup (NYSE:C), increasing…
If new data out of Experian Hitwise is accurate, then Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) is again taking market share in the US search market against competitors Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) and Microsoft…
Reuters: China remains a top investment place for US firms. Reuters: Suzuki sold a stake to VW. Reuters: The Administration will extend TARP until next October. Reuters: The Congressional Oversight Committee said…
There was a rumor, unconfirmed by Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN), that Jeff Bezos’ company would open stores in the UK. It would follow Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) and Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) into the world of the mall…
