It's Time for Apple to Support Android
Filed under: Investing There is logic to the suggestion that Apple needs to break down the walls to its closed garden. If Apple is a devices and services company, as it claims, the company's lack of...
View ArticleNVIDIA Backs Out of Mainstream Phones
Filed under: Investing Take a look at the mobile system-on-a-chip, or SOC, landscape today -- in particular on smartphones. What do you see? You see Qualcomm , essentially owning the high-end market;...
View ArticleLululemon Soars After Earnings: Time to Buy?
Filed under: Investing Source: Lululemon Lululemon  surged by 6.16% on Thursday after the company delivered better-than-expected earnings for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2013. The company seems to be...
View ArticleThe Right and Wrong Reasons for Owning Tesla Motors' Stock
Filed under: Investing This morning's better-than-expected number of initial jobless claims was not enough to lift U.S. stocks today, as the benchmark S&P 500 ended the session with a 0.2% loss....
View ArticleMeet the iPad's Next Blockbuster Game
Filed under: Investing In just a short time, Activision Blizzard will launch its new digital card game, Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft, on to Apple's iPad -- and it could quickly become one of that...
View ArticleMannKind's Upcoming Catalyst(s)
Filed under: Investing MannKind faces an advisory committee meeting on Tuesday that will make a recommendation about whether the FDA should approve its inhaled insulin drug Afrezza. But investors will...
View ArticleFierce Rivalry in the Online Travel Industry Is Playing Into Google's Hands
Filed under: Investing According to FairSearch, more than half of the world's travel sales are consummated online. For online search giant Google , travel ads by online travel agencies, or OTAs, are a...
View ArticleWhy I'm Buying Sirius XM, Again
Filed under: Investing There's been no shortage of activity, or intrigue, for Sirius XM investors since I first bought shares of the satellite radio provider in December. In an apparent attempt to...
View ArticleTextron and Northrop Grumman Win Multiple Defense Contracts
Filed under: Investing The Department of Defense awarded 19 separate defense contracts Thursday, worth $6.64 billion in total. Textron won two of them: A $59.7 million contract modification funding the...
View ArticleWhy Red Hat, Caesars Entertainment, and Exelixis Tumbled Today
Filed under: Investing Favorable economic news helped send the stock market higher despite the usual pre-weekend jitters on Wall Street, as larger gains earlier in the day gave way to traders once...
View ArticleAmazon's Bid for Free TV
Filed under: Investing Amazon is holding a media event next Wednesday to provide an update on the company's video business. Many reports have indicated that it will be launching a free, ad-supported TV...
View ArticleIs Nike a Good Buy Now?
Filed under: Investing Nike  recently reported solid third-quarter earnings results. However, the market did not seem too excited, pressuring the stock by as much as 5% to around $75.20 per share....
View ArticleInvestor Beat -- Office for the iPad, Finally
Filed under: Investing On Thursday, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella made the news that was rumored to be true finally official: Microsoft Office is now available on the iPad. Shares of Microsoft were up on...
View ArticleVisa Plunges as Dow Tapers Gains; Exxon, Microsoft Climb
Filed under: Investing The Dow Jones Industrials gained almost 59 points on Friday, managing to give the Dow a small gain of just over 20 points on the week. Yet, even though positive contributions...
View ArticleDigging Into This New Intel Rumor
Filed under: Investing While at NVIDIA's GPU Technology Conference, I heard a rumor from two independent sources that Intel went ahead and closed an R&D center in Barcelona, Spain. At this...
View ArticleLess Is More for This Boutique Hotel Management Company
Filed under: Investing Source:Â Morgans Hotels Less is more is the antithesis of the beliefs of modern empire-building executives. In the hotel industry, management tends to prefer building...
View ArticleBlackBerry Stumbles Its Way to the Finish Line
Filed under: Investing It's hard to forget that BlackBerry once commanded the brand cachet that Apple and arguably Samsung do today. Of course, a number of strategic blunders, coupled with the rapid...
View ArticleWhy Restoration Hardware and GameStop Shares Jumped
Filed under: Investing Stocks finished higher today, jumping out of the gate on word from China's Premier Li Keqiang that his government would take action to boost its slowing economy, including...
View ArticleMicrosoft Finally Embraces The Enemy
Filed under: Investing After years of speculation, Microsoft has finally brought its well-known productivity software suite, Microsoft Office, to Apple's iPad. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced the...
View ArticleChick-fil-A Stole KFC's Chicken Crown with a Fraction of the Stores
Filed under: Company News, Food & Beverage, Restaurants Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg via Getty Images By Venessa Wong The days when fried chicken was synonymous with a certain white-haired southern...
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