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Dow Jones (DJ) MarketWatch launched a new series of features that allows its readers to organize news and other features from the website and share them with others. MarketWatch Community provides a live view…
The trail of broken shareholder hearts does not seem to be coming to an end. Data management company Acxiom (ACXM) is in talks with ValueAct Capital and Silver Lake about breaking off their plans…
GE (GE) has been hoping that growth in the developing world would begin to offset slower sales in places like the US and Europe. It may be that they are finally getting their wish.…
Markets in Europe were narrowly mixed at 6.30 AM New York time. The FTSE rose .2% to 6,482. BT (BT) was up 311. Northern Rock fell 15.8% to 148.1. The DAXX rose .1% to…
There is word from The Wall Street Journal that Nokia (NOK) is in negotiations to buy Navteq (NVT), a navigation software company. The paper describes the company "as is one of the world’s leaders…
Microsoft (MSFT) will allow people and companies that license it office software to put documents online so that they can be accessed from multiple computers and shared by people who want to read or…
The Nigerian government is suing Pfizer (PFE) claiming that it "deceived patients and caused the death of 11 children in 1996 when it performed clinical trials for a new drug." According to the government,…
According to Reuters, UBS (UBS) will write-off $3.4 billion, another victim of the credit crunch. Reuters writes that the Teamsters and UPS (UPS) have come to a new contract. Reuters writes that Pfizer (PFE)…
The Hang Seng and Shanghai were closed for holidays. The Nikkei rose .3% to 16,847. Docomo (DCM) fell 1.2% to 162000. Sony (SNE) rose 1.4% to 6650. Douglas A. McIntyre
Apple (AAPL) probably already knows what its September quarter looks like, but, it could be more successful that many on Wall St. can imagine. Mac sales are being put as high as 2.17 million…
Yahoo!’s (YHOO) international operations are OK, especially if you compare them to the domestic part of the company. In the last quarter, Yahoo! US grew only 5% to $1.11 billion. International operation grew 15%…
The Wall Street Journal is reporting the UBS will write off the value of a number of instruments held in its fixed income division. Some of these are securities tied to mortgages. The Journal…
Telecom was supposed to be a business that time had passed by. VoIP, cable, and wireless internet technology like city-wide WiFi was going to bury the phone companies. But, last week AT&T (T), Verizon…
Online retailer Amazon (AMZN) hit a 52-week high last week. So did Priceline (PCLN), Expedia (EXPE), and eBay (EBAY). Even Overstock (OSTK) made the list. On the 52-week low side of the ledger, Wall…
Big tech continued to do extraordinarily well in the third quarters. Stocks that would seem to have outrun their earnings continued to climb. Among the members of the S&P 500, Apple (AAPL) rose 27%…