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Posts Tagged ‘ tech stocks ’

Investors Looking to Tech to Pull U.S. Stocks – and the Economy – Out of Their Doldrums

Jul 13th, 2009 | By William Patalon III | Category: Financial News

Stock investors will key next on earnings from tech giant Intel Corp.(Nasdaq: INTC) and banks including J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (NYSE:JPM) for hints of what to expect in the third quarter — and how badly the recession hurt businesses in the second quarter.



Google Fires Shot Across Microsoft’s Bow with New Operating System

Jul 9th, 2009 | By Bob Blandeburgo | Category: Financial News, Stock Market Investing

Google Inc. (Nasdaq: GOOG), not satisfied owning the search engine market, yesterday (Wednesday) revealed it is going to assault Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) on the turf it has dominated for two decades: the operating system (OS).



Investment News Briefs Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Jul 7th, 2009 | By Money Morning Staff | Category: Financial News

World Bank President to G8: Economy Still Dangerous; Service Sector Improves for Third Straight Month; Rio Sells Packaging Business to Bemis for $1.2 Billion; Crude Prices Drop Again; Report: Bank of America Writeoffs to Rise; Brazil’s Credit Rating Could Increase; DOJ Investigating Telecoms; Father of Web Browser Starts New Tech Venture Capital Firm



Investment News Briefs Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Jun 23rd, 2009 | By Money Morning Staff | Category: Financial News

Oil Takes a Spill; SEC Expands Madoff Investigation; Sony Could Lose Largest Game Publisher; Nasdaq Outpaces Other Indices; Walgreens Misses Street Estimates; U.S. Car Brands Close Gap with Toyota Quality…



Research in Motion Still Leading the Smartphone Pack

Jun 22nd, 2009 | By Bob Blandeburgo | Category: Featured, Stock Market Investing

There’s a lot of figures in the news being tossed around about the smartphone market, and while it may be difficult to make sense of it all, one thing is clear: The market is growing at a rapid pace, and will soon take over conventional mobile phones as the device of choice among consumers and corporate users alike.



Hot Stocks: Palm Pre Is No ‘iPhone Killer’

Jun 11th, 2009 | By Money Morning Staff | Category: Financial News, Stock Market Investing

Palm Inc. (Nasdaq: PALM) can’t seem to catch a break. Just days after its stock hit a 52-week high and its new Pre smartphone sold out in its Saturday debut, Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL) stole Palm’s thunder by announcing a new iPhone, the iPhone 3G S, and more importantly, cut the price on its existing 8 gigabyte model to $99-half the price of the Pre.



Robots and Memristors

May 13th, 2009 | By Patrick Cox | Category: Stock Market Investing

There’s something about having servants – even if they seem to love their jobs – that is vaguely disturbing. It offends many Americans’ sense of egalitarianism. But robots are different. They aren’t human. And that’s a big part of their potential appeal. They don’t eat, they don’t get offended and they don’t ask for pay raises. So if a robot could do what a human servant could do, wouldn’t you want a robot?



The Coming Takeover Boom: 3 Sectors Ripe for Mergers & Acquisitions

Apr 23rd, 2009 | By Louis Basenese | Category: Top Story

On Monday, $24.8 billion worth of takeovers were announced. It was the third busiest Merger Monday on record in 2009. Yet most investors remain unimpressed…. They’re convinced it’s nothing more than a short-lived Darwinian event. Weak and unfit companies, exposed by a nasty recession, are simply being forced into the arms of the strong.



Buy, Sell or Hold: Amazon.com Inc. Looks Even Better Now Than it Did in February

Apr 13th, 2009 | By Horacio Marquez | Category: Featured, Stock Market Investing

On Feb. 5, we knocked the ball out of the park with our recommendation on Amazon.com Inc. (Nasdaq: AMZN). After getting pummeled by the worst recession since 1930, it’s heartening to see that at these valuations, and with the massive disequilibrium that’s affecting so many market sectors, we can rewarded much more than during normal times.



Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT): Stock of the Day

Mar 17th, 2009 | By Alexander Green | Category: Featured, Stock Market Investing

When the New York Stock Exchange needed a computer operating system to handle its vast amount of daily transactions, it did not look to the perennial tech-bellwethers like Apple or Google.