Today’s wrap-up of alt energy news includes a look at the latest investment by Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) in wind energy, another federal loan guarantee for a solar farm, and two acquisitions in...
Alt-energy news today looks at some coming IPOs in biofuels, some comments from a hedge fund manager on clean energy, and a new design for a natural gas-fire power plant.  Biofuel maker Solazyme,...
If you’re self-employed or a small-business owner and your spouse is your only employee, you may be interested in a Schwab 401(k).Officially called the Schwab Individual 401(k) plan or I401(k),...
The three major US stock indexes opened lower this morning following more data from China. Both export and import data fell short, weighing on most Asian markets (more coverage here). There was...
The three major US stock indexes opened mixed this morning following a wealth of data on the Chinese economy. The short version is that the economy is slowing so much and inflation is so low that the...
These are some of the top pre-market analyst upgrades we are seeing this Wednesday morning: AMAG Pharmaceuticals (AMAG) Started as Overweight at JPMorgan Andersons (ANDE) Started as Outperform at...
VMware, Inc. (NYSE:VMW) has been an unbelievably strong IPO after the partial spin-off from EMC Corp. (NYSE:EMC).  Shares opened for trade last Tuesday and are up about 40% from the initial...
The press has focused on mortgage-based CDOs and the huge write-offs that investment banks and commercial lending companies have had to take because of the subprime market falling apart. Morgan...
Microsoft (MSFT) is behind in the virtualization software business. Way behind. Wall St.’s perception, which is probably correct, is that recent IPO VMWare (VMW) has the industry lead. The...
Citrix Systems Inc. (NASDAQ:CTXS) posted earnings of $0.41 non-GAAP EPS on revenues $350 million.  First Call had estimates at $0.38 EPS and revenues at $339.7 million.  GUIDANCE: next...
Citrix Systems Inc. (NASDAQ:CTXS) has officially become a "virtualization stock" as it announced this morning that it has closed upon the $500 million purchase of XenSource, which was...
Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) is acquiring LeftHand Networks Inc., a move that takes the company further into hardware for virtualization.  LeftHand provides storage virtualization and iSCSI storage...
Virtualization leader VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW) is set to report earnings after the close of trading today.  This earnings will likely have an impact on EMC Corp. (NYSE: EMC) and Citrix Systems,...