ThinkstockAs we begin to finish up the final month of what has been a tremendous year for the stock market, the 24/7 staff is reviewing what the major Wall Street firms are recommending for…
ThinkstockWhat could unite the world’s leading technology giants, including Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL), Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG), Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT), Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) and Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO)? Turns out it is…
courtesy of MicrosoftMicrosoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) just tanked as news is circulating that Alan Mulally will not be leaving Ford Motor Co. (NYSE: F) to replace Steve Ballmer as chief executive of the software…
ThinkstockAs if there weren’t enough reminders for Internet users to frequently change their passwords, this week came news that more than 2 million accounts on some of the most popular social media sites have…
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) was a company we just featured in two different ways. The first issue is that it is among six known tech stocks under activist investor pressure. The second is that…
ThinkstockWith the huge performance and sales on Cyber Monday of almost $2.3 billion, topping Black Friday’s $2 billion, more and more advertisers are moving their budgets to target Internet sales. This is not going…
courtesy of Google Inc.If you are going to fill the world with the next generation of robots, as the New York Times suggests Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) is preparing to do, who better to…
Apple had spent most of the last year getting no respect. Despite Tim Cook feeling like Rodney Dangerfield, the consumer electronics giant saw an upgrade from the team at UBS to Buy from Neutral.
ThinkstockShort interest in stocks of 3D printer makers has been just as volatile as the stock price at the newly discovered next big thing. The stocks bounce higher, the shorts sell; the stocks dip…
thinkstock3D Systems Corp. (NYSE: DDD) has seen close to a four dollar swing so far on Tuesday. The stock received a very positive research report calling for upside of up to $85 earlier and…
ThinkstockActivist investing firms have been raising the pressure on companies that either have underperformed or that are sitting on a mountain of cash that is returning very little value to shareholders. We have taken a…
courtesy of XeroxThis is a rare event we are seeing today. When was the last time anyone heard about anything great happening at Xerox Corporation (NYSE: XRX)? This document management provider has two positive…
courtesy of MicrosoftWith no fanfare and just a list of all the subsidiaries included in the deal, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Monday granted permission…
ThinkstockGoldman Sachs has made several changes to stocks in its Internet universe coverage on Monday. Two downgrades stood out the most after looking at the calls, and others were boring enough that we decided…
twitter.com/jimmykimmelTwitter Inc. (NYSE: TWTR) has seen the underwriting analyst quiet period come to an end. This means that the analysts at the brokerage firms in the underwriting syndicate have now been freed up to…