When you see close to a 10% drop in the broad market, you just automatically assume it punishes the speculative names even worse. Being Hi-Beta has a price. That wasn’t any different…
Douglas A. McIntyre The two big Asian PC makers, Acer and Lenovo, are in talks to buy European PC company Packard Bell, according to Reuters. That would give one of them a strong foothold in…
Heelys, Inc. (NASDAQ:HLYS) has been a like a ride at an amusement park since coming public. The stock is actually close to its post-IPO lows now. But all of a sudden shares…
Douglas A. McIntyre First, Wal-Mart (WMT) announced a joint venture with India retailer Bharti Enterprises to begin opening stores in India. But, that was not he end of it. Today, Wal-Mart’s man in India said…
Douglas A. McIntyre Asia Special Situation Acquisition Corp. has filed to come public via an IPO. This is a Cayman-based blank check company that has signaled it will sell 11.5 million units at $10.00 per…
Douglas A. McIntyre From Silicon Alley Insider Edgar Bronfman, Tom Lee, Bain Capital and every other Warner Music shareholder will likely want to send a thank you note to EMI Music Group today, for making…
Douglas A. McIntyre (AAPL) Apple has mac conference today.(AGN) Allergan noted positively by Jim Cramer on MAD MONEY. (BHI) Baker Hughes July 2007 rig count was 1,018, up 3 from June and up almost 100…
Douglas A. McIntyre EMC Corp. (NYSE:EMC) and VMware Inc. (NYSE:VMW) announced early this morning that the exchange offer for certain employee stock options is being extended to 11 AM EST on August 13, 2007. The…
AMD (AMD) came within a few pennies of its 52-week low yesterday. It traded at $12.41. Perhaps traders caught wind of the fact that the x86 processor company will be cutting prices…
Douglas A. McIntyre From Silicon Alley Insider The Post’s Holly Sanders notes the trend that scorched AOL, Yahoo, CNET, and other major online display-ad companies this quarter (i.e., everyone but Google): the wide availability of…
Douglas A. McIntyre ARJ started as Buy at Oppenheimer.ASEI raised to Hold at Jefferies.ASX raised to Buy at Citigroup.AUTH started as Outperform at Cowen.BKC raised to Buy at Citigroup.BMC raised to Peer Perform at Bear…
Douglas A. McIntyre Microsoft’s (MSFT) Zune does not seem to be doing much good getting the company a piece of the Apple (AAPL) iPod digital music player market. So, the world’s largest software company is…
First, Alcatel-Lucent (ALU) turned in another bad quarter, leading Wall St. to question whether the merger between the US and French telecom equipment companies makes sense. Its shares are down 21% over…
Douglas A. McIntyre Market in Europe were higher at 6.15 AM New York time. The FTSE rose 1.3% to 6,271. Prudential (PUK) was up 2.8% ot 704.5. Vodafone (VOD) was up 1.6% to 157.1. The…
It is not enough that internet revenue at companies like Gannett (GCI) and The New York Times (NYT) are not growing fast enough to offset drops in print revenue, and that this…