GigaOm pointed out yesterday that Verizon (VZ) now has about 1.1 million FiOS fiber-to-the-home customers being delivered voice, broadband and TV. The telecom is adding 2,600 customers a day. For those in…
A federal judge ruled yesterday that Novell (NOVL) is the owner of the critical copyrights for the Unix operating system. Another company SCO Group (SCOX) had claimed these rights. As The New…
In his From the Horse’s Mouth (http://www.stockhouse.ca/blogs.asp?page=viewblog&blogid=245) blog, 3cpxbro reports about company meetings and investment conferences. The Victoria Resource Corp (TSX: V.VIT) General Meeting (http://www.stockhouse.ca/shfn/article.asp?edtID=20060) was covered in great detail. Reporter Robert…
Douglas A. McIntyre It was hard to imagine that things could get worse for Qualcomm (QCOM) but they have. The company announced strong earnings this month and guided higher, but all of the other news…
This coming week is going to be dominated by 5 top earnings. We have included the name and a link through to a full earnings preview we did for each on Friday,…
Chuck Prince is likely to be on the hot seat again, but, his troubles may be worse than in the past. According to The FT the bank "lost more than $500m in…
On Wednesday August 15, we’ll get earnings from Deere & Co. (NYSE:DE). First Call estimates are $1.99 EPS and $6.65 Billion revenues. Next quarter will mark the end of its fiscal year…
Douglas A. McIntyre From Silicon Valley Insider It’s easy to say that the New York Times (NYT) and other newspaper companies are screwed, but sometimes it helps to actually run the numbers. Do you know…
Douglas A. McIntyre The Blackstone Group, LP (NYSE:BX) will post earnings for its units on Monday morning, August 13. First Call looks like the estimates were $0.46 EPS, but investors should be cautious on any…
Douglas A. McIntyre The world retail behemoth that goes by the name of Wal-Mart will report earnings pre-market on Tuesday, August 14. We just saw the July same store sales Thursday, so much of the…
Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HPQ) reports next week on Thursday, August 16 and Wall Street is looking for roughly 10% revenue gains and more than 20% earnings gains. Analysts according to First Call are expecting…
Applied Materials (NASDAQ:AMAT) reports on Tuesday, August 14. This will be interesting for chip equipment stocks as this is the largest chip equipment stock out there, but the main reason this will…
The new RIMM (RIMM) Blackberries, called the 8310, 8820, and Pearl 2, will have Wi-Fi capability and will be able to switch back and forth between the wireless standard and EDGE .…
Douglas A. McIntyre This morning we have had an IPO filing with the SEC from a company called CreditCards.com. If this is not ironic because of the current credit meltdown and liquidity squeeze, then irony…
Douglas A. McIntyre The DJIA is down more than another 150 points today, although it had been down 200 in pre-market activity before the Fed added liquidity this morning. We have been down actually less…