Apple has determined that the best way to reach and ultimately exceed its goal of selling 10 million iPhones this year is by adding more features and opening up the code and…
Several brands which were extremely powerful during the last few decades are about to disappear. Many of them no longer drive big sales. Some are a part of companies that are in…
These are not all of the analyst calls moving stocks this morning, but these are the top ten individual analyst calls that 247WallSt.com is focusing on this morning: DuPont (NYSE: DD) started…
Word got out overnight that Yahoo! (YHOO) is at the bargaining table with Time Warner (TWX) about AOL being merged into the larger portal. Yahoo! is grasping at every straw to stop…
The rich get richer. Despite all of the concerns about the rate at which people click on Google’s (GOOG) text ads, at least it share of the market is still growing. Based…
The government is fond of using taxes and tax benefits to change behavior. Put a big tax on cigarettes and people will smoke less. Put a "gas guzzler" tax on big cars…
Recessions make strange bedfellows. Of all the truly huge businesses in the US, save the oil companies, Wal-Mart (WMT) and Microsoft (MSFT) are having unusually good runs. Yesterday, the CFO of Microsoft…
Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) has not felt the impact of slower spending. Software must be sitting outside the vortex which is dragging the rest of the economy under. Redmond’s CFO says that the…
It is now plain that part of the reason Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) wants to buy Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) is to use its customers as targets for Redmond’s big push into online delivered…
Options trading often shows some key insight on trade bets as far as upcoming events. It appears that at least some options traders may be speculating that a higher bid is coming…
Douglas A. McIntyre Google’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) Apps software, which offers spreadsheets, word processing, and presentation features has signed up 500,000 customers by some accounts. The product is popular because it runs off of Google’s servers,…
According to Reuters, the NABE semiannual Economic Policy Survey show that the subprime crisis and heavy debt are still the biggest threats to the economy. Reuters writes that Microsoft (MSFT) will expand…
No matter how bad the markets were in February, they were worse for some stocks than for others. Shares in Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) dropped 16% during the second month of the year,…
Sony’s (NYSE: SNE) PS3 may have a better year in 2008 than it did in 2007. That would not be hard. The game console was beaten like a red-headed mule by the…
No one in Redmond wants to admit this, but Apple’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) new Leopard OS may be getting the better of Vista, at least in enough cases to make it hurt. Almost…