Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) will announce its highly awaited earnings after the close today. Analysts are expecting $0.39 EPS on $14.09 billion in revenues. That Thomson Reuters consensus number would compare to $0.47…
Douglas A. McIntyre As the executives at Apple (AAPL) were passing around the Dom Perignon, their counterparts at other companies which design and manufacture smartphones were putting all sharp objects out of reach. In a…
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) is set to report earnings after the close of trading today, and Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) is set to report earnings after the market close tomorrow. What we…
According to Reuters, PepsiCo (PEP) is offering $6 billion for a number of its bottlers. Reuters reports that GlaxoSmthKline (GSK) is in talks to buy Stiefel Laboratories. Reuters writes that the US…
According to Reuters, banks may be hard hit by the bankruptcy of General Growth (GGP) and future commercial real estate defaults. Reuters reports that VW may overtake Toyota (TM) as the No.1 car…
Dell (DELL) has done a modest amount of what it could do to keep pace with its PC competition. It recently launched a high-end laptop, the Adamo, which mimics the look of…
The deal for Microsoft (MSFT) to take over the search business owned by Yahoo! (YHOO) and pay the portal company a share of the advertising revenue in the venture is looking worse…
Douglas A. McIntyre Intel (INTC), which is the largest maker of PC and server chips in the world, announced earnings that beat analyst expectations. No one would have known that by looking at the collapse…
Citi adds Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) to the Recommended List, saying more upside could play out. Citi has a Buy rating and $22 price target on MSFT. Citi analystsays, “While the tech sector…
Douglas A. McIntyre There have been a number of news reports recently saying that Microsoft (MSFT) and Yahoo! are back in the process of negotiating a combination of their search businesses to take on the…
Douglas A. McIntyre According to Reuters, GM (GM) has been told by Treasury to begin work on a bankruptcy. Reuters reports that China’s growth has started to move inland from the coast. Reuters reports that…
From The Wall Street Journal, Steve Jobs is working from home and is still involved in critical decisions at Apple (AAPL). From AllThingsDigital and to no one’s surprise, Microsoft (MSFT) and Yahoo! (YHOO)…
Nintendo executives are almost certainly upset that the Sony (SNE) PlayStation outsold the company’s Wii gaming system in Japan last month. The Wii has held a large margin in unit sales for…
The CEO of Intel (INTC) is not sure that the government stimulus package will do him or his industry any good. According to Reuters, the firm’s CEO Craig Barrett said stimulus packages…
These are some of the top analyst upgrades or positive initiations we have seen early this morning with about two hours until the open: Adobe Systems (ADBE) Raised to Outperform at RBC.…