Palm: What Would a Buyer Need to Pay?
Well the reports are rampant again on Palm (PALM) being a takeover candidate with a bid as soon as Thursday. Why Thursday? Because its earnings are Thursday. This batch of rumors now reported everywhere…
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Yahoo! (YHOO) has launched a local search agent for mobile phones. According to Reuters, Yahoo! plans to "take advantage of the inherently local nature of many Web searches performed on phones." Instead of bringing…
Nokia Fires On Qualcomm
Qualcomm’s (QCOM) license with its largest customer Nokia (NOK) expires in April. Wall St. has been concerned about the amount of revenue involved and that has helped hold down Qualcomm’s stock. The news just…
Sprint Chases The Profitable Customer
Sprint (S) has decided to try to attract the cell phone customer who keeps a handset glued to his head 24 hours a day. Perhaps it is a bigger market than Wall St. realized.…
Qualcomm Starts To Get Smart
Ever since Qualcomm (QCOM) upped its revenue estimate for the current quarter, the stock has moved back onto a positive track. The shares are up from $39.04 on March 5 to $43.68. But, the…
Nortel Stalls
Nortel’s (NT) comeback seems to have gotten off track. It lost $80 million on $3.32 billion in revenue in the fourth quarter of 2006. But, 2007 revenue will be flat to down. The company…
Hand Set Chip Companies Get Bad News
Wall St. analysts are already concerned that sales of new Motorola (MOT) phones are off to a slow start this year. Now, according to Barron’s, the research arm of Baird is writing that the…
Analyzing Impacts of a Google Phone
Everyone loves talking about Google (GOOG). It has almost become the national sport. So it is no wonder that the discussions are pointing again toward a Google phone of some sort. There has been…
Motorola News Bad For Chip Companies
Merrill Lynch thinks that Motorola (MOT) is not selling as many of its new RIZR phones as Wall St. would like. And, sales of its older RAZR seem to be slowing faster than expected.…
Skype Gets Hot In China, Maybe They Will Pay
No one on Wall St. raises his hand when asked the question of why Ebay (EBAY) bought Skype, the big VoIP service. It already gave away its base service, so getting consumers to pay…
Qualcomm’s Rosy Forecast: Too Good To Be True?
Qualcomm (QCOM) raised its forecasts for the next quarter and the stock was one of the few large caps that rose yesterday during the market sell-off. The company said that chip sales to handset…
Microsoft & Friends Go After Cable And Telecom
No one likes disruptive technology, except the disruptor. Microsoft (MSFT), Google (GOOG), Dell (DELL), and Intel (INTC) are backing a new wireless technology that could be extremely troublesome for the country’s largest cable and…
Clearwire Open Price Chatter
In a call placed into NASDAQ the first IPO indication times have not yet been released for when the Clearwire (CLWR-NASDAQ) IPO will hit the tape. After talking with various traders ahead of the…
Motorola Should Invite Mr. Icahn In
Motorola (NYSE:MOT) opposes investor Carl Icahn’s bid to join its board. He is pretty annoying buy it would appear that he does something for the other shareholders in other companies where he buys large…
US Cellular Left in the Lurch by TDS
US Cellular Corp. (USM-AMEX) shareholders were just delivered some less than great news. Telephone & Data Systems (TDS-AMEX) is ceasing its activity related to acquiring the rest of US Cellular Corp. due to "uneconomic…