ThinkstockEvery one of the 3D printing stocks we follow got pounded on Tuesday and apparently the beatings will continue until morale improves. Wednesday trading has the stocks down in the early afternoon by just…
ThinkstockWhen the top tech companies agree to present at a firm’s technology conference, that firm has the decided advantage of getting some behind-the-scenes due diligence in them. The UBS technology conference is one of…
ThinkstockInvestors love dividends. They also generally tend to love technology stocks. The problem is that the massive growth phase of the sector has moved to selective niche businesses now that we are in the…
Yahoo! has made two announcements hidden in one announcement after the close on Tuesday. The more important announcement is that Yahoo! has increased its common share buyback authorization.
ThinkstockThe $7.4 billion sale of the handset business of Nokia Corp. (NYSE: NOK) to Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) was approved by Nokia shareholders at a special meeting on Tuesday. There was very likely some…
ThinkstockIn the relatively small and closely watched 3D printing sector, a move by one of the stocks usually causes the others to move as well. On Monday, raised price targets for two of the…
courtesy of Cisco SystemsSomething very strange is happening in the world of networking and data communications players. The earnings miss and earnings warnings out of Cisco Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO) present two interesting takes.…
Microsoft Sweden, via Wikimedia CommonsMicrosoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) is said to be narrowing down its list of candidates to replace Steve Ballmer as chief executive officer. While equity investors may be glad to see…
Frank Golhen, via Wikimedia CommonsFor much of the past two years, technology has dominated both long/short exposure and long/short performance in the hedge fund world. This has changed over the past quarter with technology dropping…
courtesy of Cisco SystemsCisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO) took a beating this last week. It was a bad enough drop that it made our own worst major blowups of the week feature on Saturday.…
courtesy of TwitterTwitter Inc. (NYSE: TWTR) has completed its initial public offering, and now it has a sky-high valuation of more than 50-times sales. The stock options began trading on Friday and the stock…
ThinkstockMicrosoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) is about to potentially be a far different company. Steve Ballmer’s resignation, retirement, or force-out, was sooner than some investors were expecting. Now we have a Bloomberg report that the…
ThinkstockVarious sites owned by Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG), including YouTube, drew nearly 165 million unique U.S. viewers in October. Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) clocked in with more than 70 million unique viewers, the second…
ThinkstockE-commerce and daily deals website for moms Zulily Inc. (NASDAQ: ZU) sold 11.5 million Class A shares Friday morning in an initial public offering (IPO) that priced shares at $22, above the expected range…
twitter.com/jimmykimmelThe equity analysis team at Standard & Poor’s offers truly independent research because it is not a brokerage firm. So how good does it sound when they initiate coverage of Twitter Inc. (NYSE: TWTR)…