Sprint-Nextel (NYSE: S) is apparently in talks with European telecom giant Deutsche Telekom about combining its US cellular division T-Mobile with the No.3 wireless provider. T-Mobile is No.4 in US cellular customers.…
A combination of Sprint Nextel Corp. (NYSE: S) and the T-Mobile USA bit of Deutsche Telekom AG (OTC: DTEGY) would bring together some 67 million subscribers now currently divided almost evenly between…
Less than two years ago, netbooks sales were going to tear the heart out of laptop makers. Companies led by Asus stormed US consumer electronics stores with $300 machine ideal for web…
Twitter has, by most estimates, 175 million members, which makes it one of the largest social networks in the world. All major media companies are on Twitter and some have more than…
Douglas A. McIntyre Ben Bernanke may indicate to Congress that the recovery is tentative and that the $600 billion QE2 program is still necessary. (Reuters) Future US auto sales may be undermined by high gas…
Consumer Reports issued a note about the reception problems of the AT&T (NYSE: T) iPhone 4 last July. Apple all but denied the trouble and offered free covers for the handsets that…
Garmin Ltd. (NASDAQ: GRMN) is starting to show more cracks in its story against the world of bundled GPS and personal navigation services in smartphones. The GPS leader turned in quarterly results…
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…
They say there is an ETF for everything. Now comes the launch by First Trust Advisors L.P. for a Smartphone ETF. The First Trust NASDAQ CEA Smartphone Index Fund (NASDAQ: FONE) offers…
SIRIUS XM Radio Inc. (NASDAQ: SIRI) filed its annual report this week for 2010. While many investors know many of the larger outstanding issues, annual reports always contain factoids that most investors…
24/7 Wall St. chose the ten most important pieces of news for major US corporations so far this year. Our evaluation was based on the history of the company and industry involved…
Comcast Corp. (NASDAQ: CMCSA) reported fourth quarter and full-year earnings this morning that both beat analysts’ expectations. For the quarter, Comcast posted EPS of $0.36 on revenue of $9.7 billion, and for…
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…
We have many big events to watch for in the coming week at American Water Works Company, Inc. (NYSE: AWK), Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL), AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T), Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE:…
Sprint-Nextel (NASDAQ: S) may not have the Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone but that has not impeded its recover. The wireless provider posted relatively good numbers for the period which ended on December…
