Fuel-Tech, Inc. (NASDAQ:FTEK) is finding itself in a bit of a conundrum this morning. The pollution control company for a greener world, or a less-brown world, is feeling some pain this morning. …
Douglas A. McIntyre According to the FT, Intel (INTC) plans to push hard to move into the market currently held by the Blackberry and Apple (AAPL) iPhone. Its championing for the distribution of WiFi and…
VMware, the soon-to-be partial IPO and partial spin-off out of EMC Corp (NYSE:EMC), has announced the general availability of VMware Fusion. This will now allow Mac users to run Mac OS X,…
(ABS) ACCO Brands $0.21 EPS vs $0.14 est.(ACA) ACA Capital noted as one that could endure or implode by Barron’s.(BSC) Bear Stearns’ Co-President Warren Spector has resigned.(DPHIQ) Delphi reached tentative labor pact…
Douglas A. McIntyre AMTD raised to Buy at UBS.ANN raised to Hold at Citigroup.AUTH started as Overweight at Lehman; started as Outperform at Bear Stearns.CVH raised to Neutral at B of A.CFR raised to Outperform…
A falling market often demonstrates how the rich get richer and the poor… get nothing. Much of the last month, AMD’s (AMD) shares have out-performed Intel’s (INTC). Just over a week ago,…
HP (HPQ) is a curious stock by many measures. Over the last year, it has whipped shares in competitors including IBM (IBM) and Dell (DELL). But, what may be more telling is…
Markets in Europe were off modestly at 5.50 AM New York time. The FTSE fell .2% to 6,211. Barclays (BCS) was up 2.4% to 594.5. BHP Billiton (BHP) was off 1.4 to…
Management at Skype is under pressure from its parent Ebay (EBAY) to deliver some revenue. The company’s last 10-Q shows "communications revenue", Skype, with revenue of $89 million. Skype had 220 million…
Tom LaSorda, Chrysler’s CEO, was kicked out of the corner office today. Maladroit manager Robert Nardelli, who did his best to sink Home Deport (HD) while CEO there, gets the top job…
According to Reuters, Bear Stearns (BSC) pushed out one of its presidents after problems that closed two of its hedge funds. Reuters writes that Robert Nardelli, former CEO of Home Depot (HD),…
Markets in Asia were down with the exception of Shanghai. The Nikkei fell .4% to 16,914. Canon (CAJ) was off 2.3% to 6370. Sony (SNE) was down 3.8% to 5820. Toyota (TM)…
In the last quarter, revenue at CNET (CNET) hit $97.2 million. That was only 5% better than the same quarter a year ago. Given that CNET is perhaps the premier provider of…
Douglas A. McIntyre Cable companies don’t have cell phone service to market to customers. And, Sprint does not have a broadband-to-the-home operation like the ones the big cable guys operate to market their internet and…
The Nintendo Wii has done it to Sony (SNE) again. During July, the Wii outsold the new PS3 in Japan by a margin of four to one. According to Reuters, Nintendo sold…
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