A number of media outlets say that Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) bought global VoIP service Skype for $8.5 billion. Skype’s subscriber base has been put at 655 million. Skype’s S-1, a step toward…
Howard Stinger, Sony’s current CEO, is 69 and most analysts expected him to step down in the next year. The hack of the PlayStation Network, which has happened not once but twice…
NokiaNew Nokia (NYSE: NOK) CEO Stephen Elop received a signing bonus of 5 million euros to join the struggling handset company. His base salary is 1.1 million euro. The new chief executive…
Samsung filed patent lawsuits against Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) over smartphone technology (Reuters) The Japanese government will release $50 billion to cover initial costs of the earthquake (Reuters) The Administration will create a…
Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Thursday morning. We are tracking news and moves in shares of Apple Corporation (NASDAQ: AAPL), Allied Irish Banks (NYSE: AIB), Nokia…
Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) earnings surpassed expectations and the company said iPad 2 units were backlogged (Reuters) BP plc (NYSE: BP) sued Transocean (NYSE: RIG) for $40 to cover costs related to Deepwater…
Reuters: Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) will begin to ship the new version of its iPhone in September (Reuters) Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) and VMWare (NYSE: VMW) both posted strong earnings (Reuters) A drop in…
Almost no one mentions also- ran handset company Sony Ericsson anymore. The firm lost money and market share over the last two years. That trend may be in reverse now. Sony Ericsson…
Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Monday morning. We are tracking news and moves in shares of Biosante Pharmaceutical Inc. (NASDAQ: BPAX), Identive Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: INVE), and Nokia…
Douglas A. McIntyre American Depository Receipts, or ADRs, are generally called American Depository Shares, or ADSs, now. We found after some routine screens that there were many 3%, 4%, and 5% or higher dividend yields available…
Jon OggThese are the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Wednesday morning. Alcatel-Lucent (NYSE: ALU) Raised to Overweight at Morgan Stanley. Altera Corporation (NASDAQ: ALTR) Raised…
The Fed’s exit from QE2 may involve rate increases (Reuters) Deutsche Bank will restructure its US bank business to avoid regulation (WSJ) Google’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) new CEO will be carefully watched as…
Updated throughout the day. Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) financial executives were not told about plans that would prevent the firm from reinstating its dividend (WSJ) Deutsche Boerse will not raise its offer…
NokiaNokia (NYSE: NOK) launched two new smartphones based on the aged Symbian operating system. Symbian has been rejected by the developer market to the extent that Nokia will phase out its use…
Japan raised the severity of its nuclear crisis to the same level as Chernobyl. (Reuters) Alcoa (NYSE: AA) beat earnings but missed sales.(Reuters) Nasdaq OMX (NASDAQ NDAQ) and Deutsche Boerse have approached NYSE Euronext’s (NYSE: NYX) largest…
