Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) has trouble in some of the largest markets overseas. As its share price rockets to more than $900 and reaches all-time highs, investors anticipate that its advertising revenue, its near-ubiquity…
courtesy of DellActivist Investor Carl Icahn is keeping up his hard court press against Michael Dell. Icahn said last week that he was raising his offer to acquire Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) in his…
courtesy of Google Inc.Baidu Inc. (NASDAQ: BIDU) should not be pleased at all that growth in mainland China keeps ratcheting lower to a new base. But on a day that might have been a…
AppleThe disagreements between smartphone leaders Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) and Samsung Electronics apparently do not extend to the chip fabrication part of the business. A report in The Korean Economic Daily this morning claims…
ThinkstockFlash memory maker OCZ Technology Group Inc. (NASDAQ: OCZ) this morning announced that its first fiscal quarter revenues will fall far short of the consensus estimate. The company now expects revenues for the quarter…
courtesy of MicrosoftThe flagship of Microsoft Corp.’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) consumer PC products, the Surface, just got less expensive. The price of the base model dropped to $349, which is certain to be a reaction…
ThinkstockTechnology stocks continue to severely underperform the overall market this year. Through the end of last week, the sector was down 3.28 year to date, and it was the only S&P 500 sector in…
Microsoft Sweden, via Wikimedia CommonsThe management changes engineered by Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) CEO Steve Ballmer are the largest since he became CEO more than 13 years ago. The Windows PC OS business took…
We have tracked the key short interest changes as of June 28 in the following semiconductor leaders: Intel Corp. (NASDAQ: INTC), Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (NYSE: AMD), Micron Technology Inc. (NASDAQ: MU), SanDisk Corp.…
ThinkstockWe have tracked the key short interest changes as of June 28 in the following 3D printer and services companies: 3D Systems Inc. (NYSE: DDD), Stratasys Ltd. (NASDAQ: SSYS), The ExOne Co. (NASDAQ: XONE)…
courtesy of Apple Inc.In a U.S. District Court ruling this morning, U.S. Department of Justice charges against Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) for colluding to fix prices for e-books with several publishers were upheld. Apple.…
ThinkstockIt looks like Internet stocks are going to be back in focus on Wednesday. Citigroup’s Mark May, who is the former Internet analyst at Barclays, has issued new coverage of key internet stocks. Citigroup’s prior…
ThinkstockClaiming to be the world’s largest digital coupon marketplace, RetailMeNot Inc. has filed for an initial public offering (IPO) and set an offering price range of $20 to $22 a share. The firm expects…
ThinkstockFlash memory maker SanDisk Corp. (NASDAQ: SNDK) announced this morning that it has signed a definitive agreement with private equity firm Silver Lake Partners to acquire SMART Storage Systems, a developer of enterprise solid-state…
ThinkstockFor all the news that sales of personal computers (PCs) and laptops are declining, chipmakers are doing all right, thank you very much. Semiconductor sales rose 4.6% in May to post their largest month-over-month…