NokiaNokia (NYSE: NOK) will begin an assault on tablet computer industry. Late to the market? Damage to its brand because of a lack of popular smartphones will undermine prospects of strong sales. Nokia may believe it has…
Short sellers reduced their positions in major financial firms and their positions in major tech stocks were divided, based on data from the NYSE and Nasdaq for the period that ended February…
The economy of Appalachia may be helped by natural gas and chemical plants. (Reuters) The People’s Bank of China will do more to support the yuan, and the global economic markets hit…
The latest data from comScore Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR) reporting share in the smartphone market has not changed much. The three-month averages for November through January show that Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) was…
Jon OggThese are some of this Tuesday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls. Apollo Group Inc. (NASDAQ: APOL) Raised to Overweight at Barclays. Charter Communications (NASDAQ:…
Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) threatens a patent suit against Facebook, citing a number of violations. (Reuters) TransCanada (NYSE: TRP) cuts the length of its Keystone XL pipeline in the hopes of finishing some…
The smartphone wars have heated up as the industry’s leaders gather in Barcelona for the Mobile World Congress. Most of the companies that currently run behind Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) in smartphone market share…
The BP (NYSE: BP) oil trial is delayed for settlement talks. (Reuters) G20 ministers and central banks say Europe has to add money to its own funds before seeking outside aid. (Reuters)…
Samsung wants to double sales of its smartphones and tablet PCs this year. It is now the world’s largest handset maker, and its growth rate, R&D capacity, and marketing prowess give it…
The Windows Phone 7 operating system from Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) shipped on 2.7 million smartphones in the fourth quarter of 2011. Microsoft’s leading handset vendor was Nokia Corp. (NYSE: NOK), the…
Gartner released its research about Q4 2011 smartphone sales. The data was pretty much as expected. Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) and Google’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) Android based phones added market share. Weaklings which include former market leader…
Investment firm Canaccord Genuity said today in its daily newsletter that Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) garners about 80% of the operating profit among all handset makers. Of $14.4 billion in industry profit,…
The restructuring of the world’s troubled multinationals continues. The trend has been particularly evident in industries like big pharma, where sales have fallen too fast to maintain expense levels. The most recent victim of poor sales,…
The Greeks try to get a financial aid package while some regional leaders say the eurozone does not need the southern European nation. (Reuters) A House committee pushes through plans for a…
Greece continues to demonstrate that it can teeter almost indefinitely between austerity and the grant of aid packages without a short-term resolution to its sovereign debt crisis. The latest development is that the ruling coalition…
