These are some of the top pre-market analyst upgrades and positive research calls we have seen from Wall Street early this Wednesday morning: Analog Devices (ADI) Raised to Buy at Deutsche Bank;…
Several of the best-funded and most-publicized tech launches of the last ten years have ended in failure. Many large technology companies which had significant market share and product advantages in large industries…
The inadequacy of 3G networks to carry data and video for large numbers of handsets simultaneously is hurting the performance of the Apple (AAPL) iPhone. The problem only starts there. The weakness…
The evidence keeps mounting that competing with the Apple (AAPL) iPhone is a losing game. According to the new JD Power survey of customer satisfaction among smartphone owners, the iPhone beat competition…
Qualcomm’s (QCOM) management has not done its investors any favors by fighting wars with its largest customer, Nokia (NOK), and its largest rival, Broadcom (BRCM). The battles, over royalties and intellectual property…
As the executives at Apple (AAPL) were passing around the Dom Perignon, their counterparts at other companies which design and manufacture smartphones were putting all sharp objects out of reach. In a…
The recent earnings numbers from China’s big telecom firms illuminated more than their profitability. One of the assumptions about the health of the global handset makers and companies that build hardware for…
Douglas A. McIntyre These are the ten top analyst calls we have seen early this Tuesday morning with about two hours until the open: Allegheny Tech (ATI) Cut to Sell at Citigroup. Apollo Group (APOL)…
There are not so many brokerage calls this morning for it being earnings season, but these are the top 10 analyst calls of upgrades and downgrades from Wall Street we have seen…
According to Reuters, banks may be hard hit by the bankruptcy of General Growth (GGP) and future commercial real estate defaults. Reuters reports that VW may overtake Toyota (TM) as the No.1 car…
It won’t be a nice day to go to work at Motorola (MOT), Samsung, or Sony Ericsson. Their larger competitor, Nokia (NOK) said it sold 19% fewer phones in the first quarter…
Nortel Networks Corp. (OTC: NRTLQ) may be adding some insult to serious injury. Shares surged today, by a huge percentage basis on merely a few cents move, after the WSJ reported yesterday…
Douglas A. McIntyre For a company which may have the most well-regarded premium brand in the world, Apple’s stock has been certainly been buffeted by unsatisfied investors. The shares have recovered some since the beginning…
Based on recent data on handset sales from research groups, Motorola (MOT), and Nokia (NOK) reinforced their forecasts that global cellphone demand could drop modestly this year It would be the first…
These are the top upgrades and positive research calls we have seen from Wall Street analysts so far early this Thursday morning: Alcoa (AA) Raised to Overweight at JPMorgan. Aqua America (WTR)…
