Intel (INTC) has decided to push into the chip market for small mobile devices which can access the internet. According to The Wall Street Journal "Intel, which largely missed out on the…
After kicking the tires at Motorola’s (MOT) handset unit China’s Huawei Technologies said it would pass. The Asia-based company is one of the largest makers of handsets in the world. According to…
Douglas A. McIntyre A Wall St. research firm suggested that Apple (NYSE: AAPL) would sell 45 million iPhones in 2009 which would bring in $11.7 billion, according to Silicon Alley Insider. Investors don’t think so.…
A new piece of research shows that Apple (AAPL) has the largest impact of any global brand. Reuters writes that "The poll by online magazine brandchannel.com asked its readers to identify the…
Yesterday’s news that Motorola (MOT) was breaking the business into two pieces sent the stock exactly nowhere. It has occurred to Wall St. that the company’s large handset division may be worth…
According to Reuters, Oppenheimer cut is earnings forecasts for Merrill Lynch (MER) and UBS (UBS) a day after cutting Citigroup (C) and Bank of America (BAC). Reuters reports that the Meriwether hedge…
Motorola (NYSE: MOT) announced this morning that it would break itself into two companies. By sometime next year the handset division will be pulled away from the mobility and enterprise divisions. The…
Douglas A. McIntyre When the global handset market goes South a number of companies get bombed. The worst goes to the handset companies themselves. That is not good news for Motorola (NYSE: MOT). Chip companies…
It is hard to imagine what Carl Icahn is trying so hard to get control of Motorola (NYSE: MOT), or at least to force the company to "improve shareholder value." The firm…
Douglas A. McIntyre Large handset company Sony Ericsson said it would miss Q1 earnings because of lack of handset demand. The company said it will only ship 22 million handsets for the period, which would…
Douglas A. McIntyre New data from ChangeWave Research point to a huge drop in spending on consumer electronics. The most recent data was taken from a survey of 4,427 consumers between February 19th and 25th.…
Below are the top calls that 247WallSt.com is focusing on in pre-market trading this Wednesday: Cal Dive International (NYSE: DVR) Raised To Overweight at JP Morgan. Genomic Health (NASDAQ: GHDX) Cut To…
Texas Instruments (NYSE: TXN) gave its mid-quarter forecast and no one liked it. The company projected slow growth and was especially gloomy about the sales of 3G chips. It said its largest…
According to Reuters, Goldman Sachs says the Fed may make an emergency rate cut. Reuters writes that Nokia (NOK) is likely to sell down now that information from chip company Texas Instruments…
Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) is introducing new tiny chips aimed at the mobile computing market. According to The Wall Street Journal the are "designed to be the calculating engine for pocket-sized gadgets that…