The 10-year Treasury hit yet another record low under 1.6% today and stocks are in the tank again due to poor economic data. Europe continues to face a meltdown and the hope…
Leap Wireless International Inc. (NASDAQ: LEAP) is out with the announcement that many consumers have been hoping for. The company will now be the first pre-paid cellular carrier in the United States…
For the two weeks that ended on May 15, short sellers hit old and new Internet site companies alike. Among firms that had IPOs recently, the short interest in Zynga (NASDAQ: ZNGA) rose…
T-Mobile, the fourth-largest wireless company in the United States, needs a buyer, not a partner. However, the chances that a buyer will materialized are unlikely, and even parent Deutsche Telekom admits it.…
At a meeting of cable industry executives in Boston yesterday, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski said the he supports usage-based pricing for Internet service to “help drive efficiency in the networks.” Genachowski also…
You may or may not have heard of Millward Brown, but you might not be surprised who they ranked as the world’s top brand: Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) took the pole position…
Sprint-Nextel (NYSE: S) began a new program to gain customers which may be desperate or brilliant. An evaluation of the results may end up being more important than Sprint’s initial intension. Sprint will offer people…
Douglas A. McIntyre We noted earlier this morning that Verizon Wireless, the joint venture between Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ) and Vodafone Group plc (NASDAQ: VOD), will not offer unlimited data plans to existing customers…
The debate over the state of the housing market continues to seesaw. RealtyTrac reported that April foreclosures fell again and are now back to July 2007 levels. But the research operation’s CEO Brandon…
T-Mobile, the wireless operation of Deutsche Telekom, probably will never recover from a failed takeover bid by AT&T (NYSE: T). The FCC and the U.S. Department of Justice killed the deal, and…
Rumors persist, most recently reported by Bloomberg, that Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) will launch a new super-thin line of laptops. The latest version of the MacBook will be powered by Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) chips, a…
Customer satisfaction with wireless subscriber companies steadied last quarter according to the widely followed American Customer Satisfaction Index. On a scale on which 100 is the best score, AT&T (NYSE: T) posted…
A stock market that sells off eight of nine days is not a good market. Even the Facebook IPO is being viewed as a one-off item rather than a systemic item which…
The major US stock indexes opened significantly lower this morning as investors reacted to the surprise loss of $2 billion by JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) disclosed by the bank’s CEO…
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) may have pulled back but this is still the darling of America. Most analysts have stepped all over themselves to raise their estimates and their price targets all…
