You might have already heard the reports that Apple is sitting on a lot of cash, around the $100 billion mark. You might have even read the scores of recommendations about what…
Jon OggEach weekend we review the many analyst calls we track during the week. Some turn out to be very insightful and some turn out to be not so great. For better…
SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) has some news out that may sound too good to be true on the surface. The company’s executive board has prepared the company’s 2011 consolidated financial statements. More…
The BSA claims that the future of cloud computing has been slowed by a large number of tech laws and regulations which vary widely from nation to nation. Cloud computing is viewed as the…
US markets opened higher this morning and traded higher for most of the day. The DJIA briefly rose above 13,000 for the first time in nearly 3 years. But in the early…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Tuesday morning: ABB Limited (NYSE: ABB) Cut to Equal Weight at Morgan Stanley.…
If you want to know what is hurting Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) and helping Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT), it may be nothing more than continued chatter about an index rebalancing act by…
The U.S. and state attorneys general reach a $25 billion settlement with five banks over mortgage abuses. (Reuters) The Hong Kong division of Alibaba may go private as part of a refinancing…
It is a bit surprising that First Trust ISE Cloud Computing (NASDAQ: SKYY) is not trading higher than it is after a ‘cloud acquisition’ even if it is a thinly traded ETF…
Taleo Corporation (NASDAQ: TLEO) is surging this morning after earnings because it is being acquired. The stock is the most active pre-market stock on the NASDAQ so far. Shares are up 17% at…
Jon C. Ogg Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO) reports earnings after the close. Our guess is that Main Street is going to either really reward or really punish the stock. All companies in telecom and…
Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO) is set to report earnings on Wednesday after the closing bell and all companies in telecom and communications will be watching handily. After a poor earnings report…
Last September a California judge tossed out a verdict that would have given Oracle Corp. (NASDAQ: ORCL) a $1.3 billion payment in a dispute with SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) over a software…
A new software program from SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) is taking direct aim at industry-leader Oracle Corp.’s (NASDAQ: ORCL) relational database software. The program, called HANA, departs from SAP’s historical business services…
For the first time in a long time, short sellers have increased their bets that the stock prices of most large companies and in most large sectors will fall. The NYSE and…
