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NokiaTroubled handset maker Nokia (NYSE: NOK) cannot get a break. Its alliance with Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) was supposed to allow it to produce attractive new smartphones meant to help it claw back...
Tablet PC sales will reach 119 million units this year, according to research firm Gartner. Apple is by far the dominant player in the market, and Gartner forecast that will be the case for at least...
The Sony (NYSE: SNE) train wreck continues. The Japanese company has appointed a new CEO and will fire 10,000 workers. But, annual earnings for the year which just ended are much worse than expected....
There is more speculation about the release of the new Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone 5 than about who will win the presidential election. Both may be settled at about the same time. Companies which do...
Investors have plenty of reasons to want disoriented Best Buy (NYSE: BBY) CEO Brian J. Dunn to be dismissed. Dunn has lost his way as he tries to find a path to compete online with firms like...
Owners of bricks-and-mortar bookstores, from Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) to independent shops on many city corners, have hoped that the American love of physical books eventually would stem the...
SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK) has just provided a “business update” which is actually nothing less than an earnings warning. With this being the leader in flash memory it is going to spill...
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) is no stranger to analysts ratcheting their price targets higher and higher.  While one case was recently made for Apple shares going to $1,650 by the end of 2015, a new...
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) has one more bit of evidence that it is acting as if it was its own stock index.  Its exceptional share performance is worth a substantial portion of the overall broad...
Three companies recently announced plans to improve their fortunes. Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) will launch its own tablet PC to challenge the Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPad, the Wall Street Journal reports....
The race for the $1,000 share price is still underway, but one call on Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) almost sounds as though Apple-mania is in full swing.  Shares hit a new all-time high today of...
Speculation continues to grow that Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) will release a tablet device later this year and join the gaggle of competitors chasing the iPad from Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL). The New...
NokiaNokia’s (NYSE: NOK) new flagship smartphone, the Lumia 900, will not carry a premium price in the U.S. The smartphone’s retail price will be as low as $99.99 and AT&T (NYSE: T) will...
Many investors cannot mentally buy high-priced shares.  It was not really an accident that Warren Buffett split the A and B shares of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A).  Logic and mental...
HTC was the hottest smartphone company in the world not long ago. Its recent earnings and manufacturing figures show it has lost some of its competitive edge. It has been badly damaged by the...