Twitter has, by most estimates, 145 million members, which makes it one of the largest social networks in the world. All major media companies are on Twitter and some have more than one million…
Infosys Technologies Limited (NASDAQ: INFY) is now a $40 billion IT-outsourcing outfit. The company has reported Q2 earnings at $0.65 EPS versus Thomson Reuters estimates of $0.61; Revenues were up almost 30% at $1.5…
IBM is buying another company. International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE: IBM) announced the acquisition of a company called Unica Corporation (NASDAQ: UNCA) early this Friday. The deal may sound small at a mere $480…
Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. (NASDAQ: CTSH) was featured this week in our daily version of the Top Day Trader Alerts due its price and volume spike after earnings. The highs in the stock were…
Manufacturing is not dead and growth is still alive. The equity markets were already higher ahead of the Institute for Supply Management this morning, but the ISM data is one more report showing evidence…
The preliminary figure for Q1-2010 GDP this morning from the Commerce Department came out at +3.2%. While this is hot as it is above the 3.0% mark, this is south of the 3.3% estimate…
Reply! Inc., an operator of a proprietary auction marketplace that facilitates online locally targeted marketing, has filed today for an initial public offering. While no financial terms were disclosed, the IPO is for up…
The 2010 Super Bowl is expected to be a return of bold advertising. Whether you are a Colts or Saints fan or no fan at all, it seems that even the non-sports lovers enjoy the commercials…
Air Products & Chemicals Inc. (NYSE: APD) may have opened up a can of worms with its planned acquisition of Airgas Inc. (NYSE: ARG). For starters, Air Products has a market cap of $14.5 billion. Airgas has…
It has to sound like the recovery of the century when you hear that the first look at fourth quarter Gross Domestic Product rose to +5.7%. Dow Jones had estimates of 4.8%, while we…
The ongoing Telepresence effort made by Cisco Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO) has some new competition from a rival networking technology company as well as from a rival in the video communications market. While this…
Language Line Services Holdings, Inc. is the latest company which has filed to come public via an initial public offering. The terms were not disclosed, but for filing purposes it listed a sale of…
The Institute of Supply Management has released its November data for the services sector this morning. The ISM non-Manufacturing data had gotten back to growth briefly in October and September. The November figure came…
Ideation Acquisition Corp. (AMEX: IDI) has been freed up to become SearchMedia, as expected. The special purpose acquisition company, or SPAC, issued a release noting that its shareholders approved all of the company’s proposals…
The Labor Department has released the September Producer Price Index, the measure of wholesale inflation. We did see a slightly raised Consumer Price Index last week and that had many of the inflation bugs…