According to Reuters, car company executives went before Congress and pleaded for billions of dollars. Reuters reports that governments are bracing for a long crisis ahead. Reuters reports that Paulson says the…
Nokia (NOK) can’t keep up with the falling demand for cellular handsets. It cuts its forecasts for Q4 and 2009 again. That is probably not good new for Motorola (MOT), Samsung, RIM…
PCs. cell phone, and video games. Winners every year. Rock solid growth driving remarkable industry earnings. Nokia (NOK), RIM (RIMM), and PALM (PALM) have destroyed the hope that 2009 will be a…
RIM (RIMM) warned it would not make its numbers for the current quarter. Some of that is due to the value of the dollar. The balance is because a weak economy is…
24/7 Wall St. will name its annual CEO of the Year next week. The executive will be picked from a field of ten which we will profile this week The CEOs are…
According to Reuters, JP Morgan (JPM), Bank of America (BAC), and Merrill Lynch (MER) will cut a total of almost 20,000 jobs. Reuters reports that Boeing (BA) will sign a new deal…
According to several media accounts, Nokia (NOK) is forecasting real trouble in the handset market both in the fourth quarter and into 2009. According to MarketWatch,Nokia warned that industry volumes for the…
Douglas A. McIntyre Apple’s (AAPL) iPhone does everything. It is a phone, a multimedia player, a web browser, and a washing machine. Now, Apple wants the iPhone to be a gaming platform and it is…
Motorola (MOT) missed a lot of its numbers for the third quarter. Much more important than that it fudged when it might dump its handset unit. The deal was supposed to happen…
Douglas A. McIntyre Motorola (MOT) has not introduced a successful handset since the Razr three years ago. Its global market share has dropped from 22% to 12% in just a few quarters. The firm had…
These are some of the top pre-market analyst upgrades and downgrades we are seeing from Wall Street firms this Tuesday morning with more than two hours to the open: China Telecom (CHA)…
Most corporations have bylaws about how many board members they must have. The federal government requires that boards of directors keep enough outside members to maintain independent audit and compensation committees. Ford…
By some estimates the handset business that Motorola (MOT) plans to spin-out to shareholders next year has no value at all. If the parent company puts some cash in the handset firm’s…
Douglas A. McIntyre Nokia (NOK) is a great company for two reasons. It has been run so well that it has nearly 40% of the global cellphone business even though it is headquartered in an…
According to Reuters, the House will vote on the bailout bill today. Reuters reports that JP Morgan (JPM) will not keep the CEO of WaMu. Reuters reports that John Thain of Merrill…
