Publicly traded companies, by definition, have many shareholders. The company’s management is supposed to be accountable to those shareholders. As it turns out, however, in some cases shareholders have limited power, and in…
It is not unusual for large American public companies to be controlled by a founder, a founding family or a corporation that bought out the large majority of shareholders at some time…
Dish Network Corp. (NASDAQ: DISH) came close to meeting consensus estimates on earnings and revenues, and in this case, close may be good enough. The company lost 111,000 subscribers in the third…
Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Monday morning. We are tracking news and moves in shares of Cephalon, Inc. (NASDAQ: CEPH), Dish Network (NASDAQ: DISH), Echostar (NASDAQ: SATS), Teva Pharmaceuticals…
Netflix Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) recently joined the waves and waves of public companies which filed their 10-K annual reports with the SEC. We often dig through these and other reports to find…
EchoStar Corp. (NASDAQ: SATS) has agreed to acquire Hughes Communications Inc. (NASDAQ: HUGH) for about $2 billion, including debt, in a deal that would give EchoStar, which makes set-top boxes and satellites…
TiVo Inc. (NASDAQ: TIVO) is one of those companies that has many loyal subscribers and it almost fits into being a cult stock. The shares are lower after earnings and guidance today,…
These are some of this Friday’s key analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls. EchoStar Corp. (NASDAQ: SATS) Raised to Buy at Citigroup. First Solar, Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR)…
Tivo (TIVO) has moved further down the road in collecting huge penalities from Dish Network (DISH) and Echostar (SATS) for violating the little DVR company’s patents. The United States District Court, Eastern…
These are the top 10 pre-market analyst upgrades and downgrades in Wall Street research calls this Tuesday morning: Amgen (AMGN) Started as Buy at RBC. Brightpoint (CELL) Raised to Buy at Citigroup.…
Reuters: GM and Chrysler said closing dealers was essential to their restructuring. Reuters: The Justice Department is probing big tech employee recruiting. Reuters: Medical bills underlay 60% of American bankruptcies.
Tivo (TIVO) got its start as the original digital video recording device company. Consumer electronics hobbyists bought Tivos by the hundreds of thousands to put on top of their TVs to record…
DISH Network Corporation (NASDAQ: DISH) and former partner EchoStar Corp. (NASDAQ: SATS) have both reported earnings this morning. DISH (DISH) earned $0.48 EPS on a 1% decline in revenues to $2.92 billion. …
If you thought that the SIRIUS XM Radio Inc. (NASDAQ: SIRI) situation couldn’t get more complex, it could. It has. Reports of it getting ready for bankruptcy, and then getting a controlling…
Tivo (TIVO) was such a promising consumer electronics start-up. The firm owned the digital video recorder business and then that was taken away from it by the cable companies, satellite companies, and…
