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Telecom & Wireless
Smartphone Prices Plunge
The press from the new NPD survey has focused on the ascent of the Google NASDAQ: GOOG) Android operating system to first place in the April to June quarter based on US…
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Telecom & Wireless
Special Situation Investors Flocking To Motorola (MOT, GOOG, AAPL, VZ)
Motorola Inc. (NYSE: MOT) may perhaps be the longest turnaround story of the modern era in technology and communications. For about 15 years it has laid off workers, restructured operations, distributed units,…
8:30am ET
Investing
Today’s Best Market Rumors (8/4/2010)
Updated throughout the day Citigroup (NYSE: C) put up its Egg online bank business (FT) Motorola (NYSE: MOT) and Verizon Communications (NYSE: VZ) will launch a tablet to compete with the Apple…
5:14am ET
Media
New Tablet Competition From Motorola And Verizon
It has to be frustrating to Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ) to stand by and watch the success of the Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone and iPad which helps its major rival…
3:58am ET
Media
Media Digest (8/4/2010) Reuters, WSJ, NYTime, FT, Bloomberg
MarketWatch: Toyota Motor (NYSE: TM) upped its full-year forecast Reuters: BP plc (NYSE: BP) began the “static kill” of its well in the Gulf. Reuters: Japan is worried because the yen is…
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Investing
Today’s Best Market Rumors (8/2/2010)
Updated throughout the day. AT&T (NYSE: T), Verizon Wireless, T-Mobile, and Barclays will compete with Visa (NYSE: V) and MasterCard (NYSE: MA) in the online payment business. (WSJ) David Wehner has become…
8:51am ET
Investing
The Twitter-24/7 Wall St. Market Watch (7/30/2010): China Falls Apart, Blackberry Troubles
Twitter has, by most estimates, 100 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…
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Investing
24/7 Wall St.’s Corporate Power Rankings: Week 29
The 24/7 Wall Street Corporate Power Rankings of the 32 most important companies in America are determined by earnings, analyst rankings, important corporate news, trends in each firm’s industry, product introductions, management…
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Investing
The 10 Biggest Dividend Stories of 2010 (GE, SBUX, UNH, MSFT, INTC, JPM, VZ, T, WMT, WY, BP, CSCO, AAPL)
2009 was the year that dividends were cut or went on hold. 2010 is becoming the greatest year of increases and initiations of dividends that the markets have ever seen. There are…
10:29am ET
Telecom & Wireless
AT&T Gets Slammed By S&P, ‘A’ Corporate Credit Rating In Doubt
S&P may lower AT&T’s (NYSE: T) credit rating, on the heels of Sprint-Nextel (NYSE: S) posting a widening loss. “AT&T Inc. may not be able to achieve financial metrics fully supportive of…
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Investing
24/7 Wall St.’s Corporate Power Rankings: Week 28
The 24/7 Wall Street Corporate Power Rankings of the 32 most important companies in America are determined by earnings, analyst rankings, important corporate news, trends in each firm’s industry, product introductions, management…
8:12am ET
Investing
Verizon: One-Time Charges Weigh, Growth Slows, 4G Coming
Verizon posted very modest quarterly result which included a charge for lay-off, slow growth in its wireless and broadband-to-the-home products, and a further deteriorating of its legacy landline business. Verizon reported a…
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Investing
Major Earnings Previews Still on Deck (AMZN, AXP, MSFT, MOS, SNDK, F, MCD, VZ)
Earnings season is now in full swing and we have many major market-movers that are on deck Thursday afternoon and Friday morning with key earnings reports. Many are DJIA components. We have…
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Investing
24/7 Wall St.’s Corporate Power Rankings: Week 27
The 24/7 Wall Street Corporate Power Rankings of the 32 most important companies in America are determined by earnings, analyst rankings, important corporate news, trends in each firm’s industry, product introductions, management…
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Industrials
Next Week’s 11 DJIA Component Earnings On Deck (IBM, JNJ, KO, UTX, MMM, T, TRV, AXP, MSFT, MCD, VZ, DIA)
This week brought about 5 of the 30 Dow Jones Industrial Average components that have reported earnings this earnings season. We have a mixed fanfare so far, but next week we have…