Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Thursday morning. Biogen Idec Inc. (NASDAQ: BIIB) Raised to Outperform at Oppenheimer. Canadian…
Hewlett-Packard’s (NYSE: HPQ) new CEO faces investors concerned about its prospects. (Reuters) U.S. box office sales near records despite the slowdown. (Reuters) Lenovo posts strong earnings in spite of troubles with global…
In the seemingly never-ending round of intellectual property lawsuits over smartphone technology, Taiwan’s HTC Corp. has fired the latest shot. The smartphone maker has filed a complaint with the International Trade Commission…
Game consoles and handheld game players took another shot to the chin today as Sony Corp. (NYSE: SNE) dropped the price of its Playstation 3 console by $50 on both the $299…
Honestly, isn’t it time for Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) to stop using words like ‘supercharge’ when it spends $12.5 billion? Google isn’t a graduate-student garage start-up any longer. The company announced this…
Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) will buy mediocre handset firm Motorola Mobility (NYSE: MMI). It is probably a play to compete with Apple. The difference is that Motorola has a relatively weak line of…
Short sellers moved into bank stocks ahead of the sell-off based on data for the period that ended July 29. Shares sold short in JPMorgan (NYSE: JPM) rose 17% to 33.6 million.…
Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Tuesday morning. We are tracking news and moves in shares of ARM Holdings (NASDAQ: ARMH), General Electric Company (NYSE: GE), JP Morgan Chase…
The Android operating system from Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) is the leading platform smartphone platform in among 78.5 million US smartphone owners. The iOS operating system that powers the iPhone from Apple…
Smartphone maker Research in Motion Ltd. (NASDAQ: RIMM) has released five new phones this morning, including one, gasp, that does not have a keyboard. While shares are getting a bounce pre-market, this…
Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Wednesday morning. We are tracking news and moves in shares of Comcast Corporation (NASDAQ: CMCSA), Hertz Corporation (NYSE: HTZ), Nokia Corporation (NYSE: NOK), Research…
Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Tuesday morning. We are tracking news and moves in shares of Alcatel-Lucent (NASDAQ: ALU), Nokia Corporation (NASDAQ: NOK), and Sirius XM Radio (NASDAQ:…
The juggernaut that is Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone sales grows more powerful each day. New data show that Apple thrashed its smartphone competitors in the second quarter and may have become the…
Plans for a budget vote by Republicans in the House fell apart (Reuters) Moody’s threatened to downgrade Spain (Reuters) BSkyB will have a $1.6 billion share buyback (Reuters) S&P said the U.S.…
Most of the focus on tech earnings this season has been on the extraordinary gains of Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) and even older companies like Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) and Intel…
