7:57am ET
Investing
Pre-Market Analyst Calls (November 6, 2007)
Stock Tickers: ANF, ARO, AEO, ANN, ADSK, BMRN, CA, CHS, C, COGN, CWTR, ETR, GPS, GOOG, JCG, LF, MA, MSFT, ORH, ORCL, PAS, PNWIF, PT, RIMM, JAVA, SYMC, UA, URBN Abercrombie &…
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10:43am ET
Media
Barron’s Poll Has Apple (AAPL) And Google (GOOG) As Buys And Sells
In Barron’s semi-annual Big Money Poll, institutional investors are asked about their two favorite stocks and also which shares are most overvalued. For the latest poll, 112 money managers responded. On the…
4:08pm ET
Technology
News Corp’s (NWS) MySpace Joins Google (GOOG) Social Network Group
TechCrunch and Silicon Alley Insider have reported that News Corp’s (NWS) MySpace will join the new Google (GOOG) OpenSocial initiative. The Google program pulls together a number of social networks include the…
5:40am ET
Investing
Apple (AAPL), Microsoft (MSFT), And RIMM Get Huge Benefits From Brands
Landor Associates puts out a study called Breakaway Brands. The survey claims to measure the financial contributions made by individual brands to their parents’ bottom lines. According to the survey, picked up…
2:16pm ET
Investing
Mutual Fund Year-End Window Dressing Meets FOMC Date (MSFT, CSCO, GOOG, AAPL, RIMM, VMW, EMC, KO, YUM, MCD, BIDU, CROX, DELL, SCI, GS, STT, NYX, TXT)
Wednesday is much more than Halloween and it is more than the FOMC announcement date. We have an event that has been perhaps more influential to many key stocks than the upcoming…
11:12am ET
Media
RealNetworks Earnings Expectations (RNWK, TIVO, VIA)
RealNetworks Inc. (NASDAQ:RNWK) is set to report earnings after today’s close. First Call has estimates at -$0.01 EPS on revenues of $143.4 million, but there are some estimates with a break-even to…
7:42am ET
Consumer Electronics
Apple (AAPL) Mac OS Sets Sales Record
Apple (AAPL) today announced that it sold (or delivered in the case of maintenance agreements) over two million copies of Mac OS X Leopard since its release on Friday, far outpacing the…
9:16am ET
Technology
Google (GOOG) To Start Own Social Network, Compete With Facebook
TechCrunch is reporting that Google (GOOG) is "preparing its own major assault on the social networking scene." The project is currently called “Maka-Maka”. Google already owns large social network Orkut, but most…
4:45am ET
Consumer Electronics
Nintendo Plans To Add More Stuff To The Wii And DS
Nintendo, which makes the DS portable videogame device and Wii console, said it hoped to start by unveiling new features for the DS next year that would be more practical than entertaining,…
6:15am ET
Apps & Software
New Analyst Calls To Drive Microsoft (MSFT)
Analysts have now raised the price of poker for Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) stock. We have our own thoughts on this, but we still tend to view this from a value perspective. At the…
Douglas A. McIntyre 12:10pm ET
Investing
The Week’s Best & Worst Analyst Calls (WCG, MSFT, NILE, BRCM)
Wall Street analysts get great kudos sometimes, and other times they get the leper treatment. There were many movers this week, and some of these research notes are actually carryovers from the…
9:44am ET
Media
Somebody Made Money On Sirius (SIRI)
Sirius (SIR) has gone from being a market darling to one of the most maligned companies among those that the press follows with any regularity. The conventional wisdom is that the firm…
7:27am ET
Investing
Pre-Market Earnings Movers (October 26, 2007)
(BEAS) BEA Systems trading down almost 4% ahead of Oracle rejected BEA Systems’ $21 indication.(CFC) Countrywide -$2.85 EPS vs -$1.28 est., but shares indicated up over 10% on writedowns.(COLM) Columbia Sportswear indicated…
4:35am ET
Investing
Microsoft’s (MSFT) Overnight Success
Microsoft’s (MSFT) earnings took Wall St. by surprise. It was a big enough jolt to take the shares to a level they have not seen since 2001, well above $35. The move…
Douglas A. McIntyre 3:02am ET
Media
Media Digest 10/26/2007 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Barron’s
According to Reuters, Microsoft’s (MSFT) strong quarter and forecast sent shares up over 10%. Reuters writes that Oracle (ORCL) has turned down BEA Systems’ (BEAS) proposal that the company be sold at…