The online e-commerce business is booming this year. The total value of goods bought online is up 19% for the period from November 1 through December 11 to $20.49 billion. This past Monday total…
Intel’s (INTC) chip revenue is growing faster than the overall semiconductor market. Gartner says that the lare company’s share of the global market will be 12.2% this year compared to 11.6% last year. Reuters…
One of Wall St.’s most widely traded stocks, Conexant (CNXT) is off almost 7% to $.98, breaking below $1 for the first time this year. Volume is an unusually heavy 17.5 million shares. Douglas…
Advanced Micro Devices (NYSE:AMD) shares are not trading well despite its analyst meeting today. The number two processor maker said they expect to be break-even in Q2 2008 and will show operating profits in…
Based on November online audience numbers from comScore, Yahoo! Finance (YHOO) is losing the huge lead that it once had over MSN Money (MSFT) and AOL Finance (TWX). In November 2006, Yahoo! Finance had…
No one is giving out figures on how well the new Fox Business channel is doing on cable. And, rival CNBC is not saying anything either. But, online Fox has made a very quick…
Qualcomm (QCOM) does not lose every legal battle it fights. It just seems that way. After set-backs in patent cases against rival Broadcom (BRCM), it has been in court with its largest customer, Nokia…
It appears that the weakness being seen in many of the mobile handset makers isn’t really hurting Texas Instruments (NYSE: TXN). The company gave its mid-quarter update and narrowed its prior guidance to levels…
Research firm Kaufman put "hold: ratings on content deliver networks Akamai (AKAM) and Limelight (LLNW) with price targets below where the stocks currently trade. The bull theory on the stocks was that as internet…
December 6 was the biggest online sales day in history, at least according to comScore. Online buyers spent $803 million dollars that day. up 28% from the same day last year. It is a…
The most visited website at the 24/7 Wall St. New York news desk is Yahoo! Finance. We actually pay to use Yahoo! (YHOO) real time quotes. Based on syndicated research, Yahoo Finance! is the…
AMD (AMD) told investors and the media that one of its key chip projects is being delayed. The new flagship Barcelona chip will not be ready for use in servers until next year. At…
Google (GOOG), Yahoo! (YHOO), and AOL have spent billions of dollars to buy software firms which target ads based on consumer behavior. They look at which websites people visit and what they do there.…
AMD (AMD) is making another 52-week low today, trading down to $9.44. Concerns that Dell (DELL) may not be committed to using as many of the company’s chips as they did in the last…
The people at research firm iSuppli had unkind things to say about AMD (AMD). The company reported that Intel (INTC) outperformed the overall semiconductor growth rate of 4.1% this year. Expectations are for AMD…