Short sellers believe that they have seen the bottom for financial shares and exited the industry en masse. Shares sold short in Merrill Lynch (MER) fell 12.6 million to 42.3 million. Short…
It looks like Google (GOOG) will strike a deal to be the default search feature on all of Verizon’s (VZ) cellular handsets. Since the phone company has about 70 million subscribers, the…
Jerry Seinfeld can be a vicious and cruel comedian. Microsoft (MSFT) has changed that by putting $10 million in his pocket. The people from Redmond have finally acknowledged that a huge portion…
According to Reuters, Nissan says it will start exporting cars from it China joint venture. Reuters reports that Micorosft (MSFT) will enlist Seinfeld for its new ad campaign. Reuters reports that the…
Novell Inc. (NASDAQ: NOVL) got some decent news after Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) expanded its Linux support relationship for interoperability. If it seems that Microsoft is warming up to Linux and open source,…
Douglas A. McIntyre This week was a huge week as far as getting to see what the large funds and key money managers or investment gurus were putting into their portfolios. We compiled lists and…
Tonight we received the quarterly filings for Cascade Investment LLC, which shows the personal investments of Bill Gates. While the investment vehicle listed many unique holdings out there that were much the…
If you think the long-gone uptick rule or naked shorting was important for financial stocks, you might wonder what was going on in technology stocks with short sellers. In the major NASDAQ…
Shorts sellers suffered from a lack of conviction on the direction of financial stocks in the period that ended July 31. They were clear that betting against tech was no longer a…
Several stocks made big moves today and substantial moves in volume. Included in equity and options action were Sirius (SIRI) and Microsoft (MSFT)
Microsoft (MSFT) is going to buy back $20 billion of its shares. Take that to the bank. Maybe. UBS says that investors should expect the move by the world’s largest software company…
Nintendo owns so much of the video game console market that it may be coming up against market share problems. But, the entire industry could be facing the issue of whether it…
It has to gall corporate leviathans Microsoft (MSFT) and Sony (SNE) that Nintendo trumps them in the video game console business. The modest Japanese company did it again in the last quarter.…
Google (GOOG) has a new rival, Cuil. Out of the box, it seems hopelessly broken. The news search engine claims it covers three times as many web pages as Google.
China now has more people online than the US, 253 million to be exact. The China Internet Network Information Center says that the number of internet users was up 56% from June…