Walt Mossberg, the tech columnist of The Wall Street Journal, made a good point recently. Smartphones like the Apple (AAPL)iPhone are not phones at all. They are miniature portable computers. Suddenly, there…
Verizon Wireless (VZ)(VOD) plans to flank the AT&T (T) Apple (AAPL) iPhone marketing plan by any means available. It will launch versions of the Palm (PALM) Pre, which has to be a…
Micro-blogging platform Twitter has 32 million users, which is an increase from about 2 million a year ago, according to research mentioned in The Wall Street Journal. Some Internet measurement services show…
Reuters: The Treasury is keeping banks guessing about when they can repay TARP funds. Reuters: Bank of America (BAC) has raised more than $13 billion in share sales. Reuters: Hewlett-Packard’s (HPQ) financial…
Reuters: Small businesses are having trouble finding financing. Reuters: VW has stopped tie-up talks with Porsche. Reuters: The US budget chief says there are signs the economic free fall is over. Reuters: …
The inadequacy of 3G networks to carry data and video for large numbers of handsets simultaneously is hurting the performance of the Apple (AAPL) iPhone. The problem only starts there. The weakness…
These are some of the top pre-market analyst downgrades and cautious research calls from Wall Street this Thursday morning: American Superconductor (AMSC) Cut to Hold at Deutsche Bank. AT&T (T) Cut to…
Verizon (VZ) and AT&T (T) are in a race to see whether the growth in their cellular and broadband businesses can accelerate faster than their residential landline businesses are shrinking. The fate…
Sprint (S) keeps getting smaller and smaller and its two larger competitors Verizon Wireless (VZ)(VOD) and AT&T (T) keep getting larger. For the most recent quarter, Sprint’s revenue fell 12% to $8.2…
According to Reuters, the days of the CEOs of Bank of America (BAC) and Citigroup (C) may be numbered. Reuters reports that a deal has been reached to cut Chrysler’s debt but…
Yesterday, there were a number of rumors in the press that Verizon Wireless (VZ) (VOD) was talking with Apple (AAPL) to get a franchise to sell the iPhone after AT&T’s (T) exclusivity…
AT&T (T) has made it clear, very clear that the Apple (AAPL) iPhone is critical to its strategy to increase cellular revenue as its residential landline business shrinks. The iPhone helps AT&T get…
According to Reuters, a new generation of netbooks may reshape the PC industry. Reuters reports that concerns about swine flu have spread across the globe causing health alerts. Reuters reports that John…
According to Reuters, a bill to restrict credit card charges cleared a key committee in Congress. Reuters reports that Ken Lewis of Bank of America (BAC) says his firm what urged by…
AT&T (T) earnings were within the range of Wall St. forecasts. That is not saying much. The results were modest and pushed the stock up about 3%. AT&T’s first quarter revenue totaled…
