The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has announced more toy recalls today for lead paint violations.  There is a full list of product recalls here, but interestingly enough this...
Last April Dish Network Corp. (NASDAQ: DISH) paid $320 million to acquire Blockbuster Inc. out of bankruptcy. Speculation at the time suggested that Dish would enter the streaming video and...
Disney’s (DIS) Pixar division did fairly well with its new film "Ratatouille" which was No.1 at the North American box office this weekend, bringing in $47.2 million. But, according...
These are this Tuesday’s early analyst downgrades and cautious research calls which we have seen from Wall Street research firms: Alcatel-Lucent (ALU) Cut to Neutral at Credit Suisse. American...
Disney stock jumped by around 6% shortly after Thursday's opening bell. Cost-cutting and new subscribers were important, but there's more.
News Corp. (NASDAQ: NWS) is considering the launch of a new national sports network to compete with the 600-pound gorilla, ESPN, owned by Walt Disney Co. (NYSE: DIS), and the recently re-branded NBC...
With the market down 300 point in a day and off more than 10% from its recent highs, Wall St. is looking at some of the most active stocks and scratching its head. GM (GM) is off 7% today, very near...
Streaming video provider Hulu LLC has been taken off the auction block by owners News Corp. (NYSE: NWS), Walt Disney Co. (NYSE: DIS), Comcast Corp. (NASDAQ: CMCSA), among others. Rumored potential...
The day that many feared for Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) has arrived.  Steve Jobs is formally leaving Apple as CEO.  He has requested to still serve as Chairman of the Board, director, and...
The CEO of Time Warner Cable Inc. (NYSE: TWC) today told an investor conference that programming is “just starting to cost too much,” and that his company will be taking a “hard look” at...
An unusually large block of put contracts in Walt Disney has been sold.
Source: courtesy of Sony Corp.A division of Sony Corp. (NYSE: SNE) and Starz (NASDAQ: STRZB) have extended a multi-year agreement under which Starz will remain the exclusive first-run TV outlet for...
These are some of the top pre-market analyst upgrades and positive research calls we have seen from Wall Street this Wednesday morning with more than two hours until the market opens: Alcatel-Lucent...
Earnings season is getting thinner on which companies are reporting earnings, but we still have 5 key earnings due the rest of the week.  Computer Sciences Corp. (NYSE: CSC), Cisco Systems Inc....