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| May 31, 2018 | Nigeria’s Piggybank.ng raises $1.1M, announces group investment product | Jake Bright Contributor Jake Bright is a writer and author in New York City. He is co-author of The Next Africa. More posts by this contributor African fintech startup Chipper Cash raises $30M backed by Jeff Bezos Nigeria’s Autochek raises ... |
| Dec 13, 2017 | Here Come the Bogus Bitcoin Scare Tactics | Steven Hopkins is chief operating officer and general counsel of Medici Ventures, an Overstock.com subsidiary focused on the advancement of blockchain technology. "Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the farthest thing from it.&q... |
| May 9, 2017 | Apple Wins Patent for a Personal Items Network Covering an Advanced Heart Rate Monitor & Live Sporting Events Categories Search | The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office officially published a series of 76 newly granted patents for Apple Inc. today. In this particular report we focus on a patent that potentially covers many sports related inventions like an advanced hear... |
| Apr 12, 2017 | Who owns the world’s largest corporations? | By David Peetz and Georgina Murray, Griffith University When people say share ownership is highly diversified, they think most large public corporations have lots of shareholders — and often the largest shareholder has less than 15%, someti... |
| Oct 28, 2016 | Is Tim Cook Apple’s version of Steve Ballmer? Not even close | Earlier this week, I came across a widely circulated article from Steve Blank articulating why Tim Cook is effectively Apple’s own version of Steve Ballmer, which is to say that Cook is a non-visionary who is adept at increasing sales but n... |
| May 13, 2015 | Cleveland Clinic spinout Juventas Therapeutics raises $13.5M for cardiovascular gene therapy | Juventas has studied JVS-100 in a number of cardiovascular indications, including advanced chronic heart failure, late stage peripheral artery disease and critical limb ischemia. It also shows promise in refractory angina, heart attack, mus... |
| Sep 25, 2014 | How To Be A Social Media Missionary: For Business | Guy Kawasaki is regarded as the father of evangelism in business. Evangelism is a religious term. He drove loyalty to Macintosh computers by converting followers to the gospel of Apple. This loyalty is akin to a religious belief and carries... |
| Jun 10, 2014 | Apple Granted 50 Patents today Covering Hands-Free Services for the Car, Multi-Touch Shape Drawing, Robotic Finishing & More Categories Search | Apple is granted a Patent for Hands-Free Services (for the Car) Apple has been granted a patent today for their invention relating to the field of computer networking; and more specifically for supporting hands-free services for IP video ca... |
| Jun 5, 2014 | MindBlown Labs: Building Games That Matter | When Jason Young and Ty Moore, then undergrads at Harvard University, met some 12 years ago at a convening of Ronald Brown scholars, both young men knew that the chance encounter would blossom into a fruitful partnership. “We’ve been talkin... |
| May 12, 2014 | OpenTV Launched 3 Patent Infringement Lawsuits against Apple in Düsseldorf Germany Today Categories Search | According to their press release, "The Kudelski Group announced today that its OpenTV, Inc. and Nagravision SA subsidiaries have filed three patent infringement suits against Apple in Düsseldorf District Court. The suits allege that Ap... |
| Oct 3, 2013 | Twitter’s Accumulated Deficit Is $418.6 Million And That Figure Is About To Get Much Bigger | It costs a lot of money to build a business of Twitter’s scale. The company raised $1.16 billion prior to its planned initial public offering, which could total $1 billion itself. Here’s another figure: Twitter’s accumulated deficit to date... |
| Aug 25, 2013 | The Board Of The Borg | MG Siegler Contributor More posts by this contributor Twitter’s Small Chance To Maim Email The VP of Devil’s Advocacy On April 17 of this year, I wrote a post that I never published. The following day, Microsoft was set to release their Q3 ... |
| Jun 13, 2013 | Apple Tweaks Important Wearable Computer Patent Categories Search | Patently Apple first covered this ground breaking patent in our June 2009 report titled "Apple TV to Take Sporting Events to a Whole New Level." Then in December of that year we reported on Apple being granted a patent for a paten... |
| Mar 7, 2013 | Nasdaq Developing Exciting New Way To Lose All Your Money On Tech Stocks | As everyone knows, the well-trodden path for technology startups starts in a garage, runs through angel rounds and seed rounds and other preciously named rounds of venture capital investments, and ends up with the glorious dream of listing ... |
| Feb 22, 2012 | The Hats Swap Heads: Microsoft Uses EU Leverage to Pin Google on Patents | Microsoft confirmed to ReadWriteWeb this morning that the formal competition law complaint it filed this morning with the European Commission is against both Motorola Mobility (MMI) and Google, its would-be parent company. The office of the... |
| Jan 27, 2012 | Third Critical Rambus Patent Invalidated, Nvidia Vindicated | U.S. Patent # 6,591,353, “Protocol for Communication with Dynamic Memory,” tends to refer to a “memory device.” The innovation with respect to this device appeared to be the introduction of a synchronous clock. That way, time-multiplexed tr... |
| Jan 23, 2012 | SigFig: CES Gets Public Investors Excited About Companies, But Stock Prices Don’t Go Up | The Consumer Electronics Show, that turgid January gadget fest in Las Vegas, has been widely seen in the industry as a great place to show off your wares if you’re not Apple. But is that true? SigFig, the stealth investing startup that’s gr... |
| Jan 23, 2012 | RIM's strategy of marketing, Android apps, and low-end devices fails to excite | Canadian smartphone pioneer Research in Motion announced on Sunday that its co-chairmen Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie would be stepping down, and former Siemens CTO Thorsten Heins would be rising from his position of Chief Operating Offi... |
| Dec 15, 2011 | SigFig Shows Its iOS-Owning Investors Big on AAPL, Its Android-Owning Ones Not So Big On GOOG | A study by investment analysis startup SigFig suggests that iPhone-owning investors are 20% more likely than the average investor to also own Apple stock, while investors with Androids are 25% less likely to own Google than average. This is... |
| Nov 7, 2011 | Best Buy Reorganizes in the Cloud, Acquiring 123Together.com | If you’ve ever investigated various sources for hosted Exchange e-mail or SharePoint sites, or virtual cloud servers, for a small business of under 100 employees or so, you’ve probably run into a service called 123Together.com. It’s titled ... |
| Oct 25, 2011 | Wikinvest Brings Its Investment Portfolio Tracker To The iPad | Wikinvest’s realtime portfolio tracker makes tracking a number of brokerage accounts and your investment portfolio easy. The Wikinvest portfolio tracker lets anyone link up their real brokerage accounts to so they can keep tabs on their act... |
| Aug 18, 2011 | Setbacks for Google in Patent Cases Make Motorola Look Less Valuable | If the proposed acquisition of Motorola Mobility (MMI) by Google announced on Monday truly is about the value of MMI’s patent portfolio, then mitigating circumstances over just the past few days may make the $12.5 billion bid seem a bit ste... |
| Aug 15, 2011 | Google: Buying Friends And Influencing Handsets | Google’s purchase of Motorola Mobility is, in the end, a mercenary effort to cement Android’s position in the handset ecosystem and to prop up a stalwart proponent of the platform. That’s fine. Google is a big company and it can now pick an... |
| Jun 6, 2011 | Apple takes away RIM's only advantage: iMessage copies BlackBerry Messenger | In Apple's unveiling of iOS 5 on Monday, the company revealed iMessage, a new feature that brings the functionality of BlackBerry Messenger to all iOS devices: iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch. Advertisement View the full RIMM chart at Wikinves... |
| May 5, 2011 | Wikinvest attracts Facebook vets for stealthy product SigFig | Wikinvest, a finance startup that’s trying to challenge established sites like Yahoo Finance with more interactive, data-rich features, just announced that it will be launching a new product called SigFig. So what does it actually do? Well,... |
| Apr 8, 2011 | FSMS.co.za: Q&A with the new mobile messaging startup | There’s no such thing as a free lunch right? There’s got to be a catch somewhere within a so-called free service? Think of Facebook, Google, and Twitter. These are all based on “freeconomics”. They are free tools. These services are subsidi... |
| Apr 8, 2011 | FSMS.co.za: Q&A with the new mobile messaging startup | There’s no such thing as a free lunch right? There’s got to be a catch somewhere within a so-called free service? Think of Facebook, Google, and Twitter. These are all based on “freeconomics”. They are free tools. These services are subsidi... |
| Mar 27, 2011 | Cleveland Clinic’s sale of spinoff Intelect Medical brings $28 million windfall | It’s no wonder that Cleveland Clinic has placed an increased emphasis on commercializing medical innovations by its doctors. Cleveland Clinic CEO Toby Cosgrove revealed in a recent interview that the $78 million sale of Clinic neurotechnolo... |
| Jan 5, 2011 | Boston Scientific doubles down on neuromodulation with $78 million Intelect Medical buyout | UPDATED: Jan. 5, 2011, 5:10 p.m. EST Just a few weeks after taking its pain management arm off the auction block, Boston Scientific Corp. (NYSE:BSX) doubled down on the division with a $78 million buyout of Intelect Medical Inc. After shopp... |
| Jan 3, 2011 | Intelect reportedly finds a buyer from its new Boston digs | The neuromodulation medical device company Intelect Medical Inc. recently left its Cleveland headquarters for Boston. Now it may be in for a departure of another order — namely, an exit. Three sources confirm a deal is done for Intelect, a ... |
| Dec 24, 2010 | Cleveland Clinic neuromodulation device spinoff close to acquisition | Promoted This Patient Experience Checklist Is Your Key To Success in 2021 As healthcare systems strive to recover from losses due to the pandemic, patient acquisition and retention have never been more urgent, and patient experience has nev... |
| Nov 18, 2010 | Wikinvest Brings $16 Billion In Portfolio-Tracking To Android And Blackberry | Charles Schwab doesn’t have an Android app, a Blackberry app, or even an iPhone app. Many brokerages are in the same boat, or if they do have a mobile app it is only on the iPhone. Starting later today, brokerage customers of Schwab, Fideli... |
| Oct 4, 2010 | Chris Coburn: Captain of the Cleveland Clinic Innovations crew | Coburn, the son of a thoracic surgeon, grew up eating politics and policy. He cut his commercialization teeth at Battelle, building the research institute’s Cleveland-based commercialization unit to 60 people. He has been executive director... |
| Aug 26, 2010 | Wikinvest brings your stock portfolio to your iPhone | Wikinvest, a startup trying to take on sites like Yahoo Finance, is releasing a new iPhone app today. Back in June, it launched a feature on its website for importing and tracking your stock portfolio in real-time. Now it’s allowing users t... |
| Aug 25, 2010 | Wikinvest Launches On The iPhone | Wikinvest today launches its mobile initiative with its iPhone app, now live in the Apple store. As brokerages and the finance industry in general are usually late to the mobile and Internet game, the Wikinvest app is one of the first that ... |
| Jul 7, 2010 | Cleveland Clinic Innovations starts next decade with 33 companies | Perhaps most impressive, those companies — 33 in all — have attracted more than $340 million in follow-on funding from other investors. “That’s a darn good number” for a 10-year-old innovations group whose average spin-off is about five yea... |
| Jul 7, 2010 | Cleveland Clinic Innovations makes the VC ranks | By Mary Vanac Cleveland Clinic Innovations — the corporate venturing arm of the nation’s top heart hospital — is entering its second decade with a first-of-its-kind venture ranking, a brand-new incubator building and a growing portfolio of ... |
| Jun 21, 2010 | Wikinvest Already Tracking $1 Billion In Portfolio Assets | Sometimes a startup rolls out a new feature, and it just hits the sweet spot of what consumers are craving. It looks like Wikinvest has a hit on its hands with its new realtime portfolio tracker. Less than three weeks after its launch, Wiki... |
| Jun 2, 2010 | Wikinvest Introduces A Portfolio Tracker Linked To All Your Brokerage Accounts | The problem with most portfolio trackers on financial sites like Yahoo Finance is that they are a pain to set up and an even bigger pain to maintain. Typically, you have to enter each stock position by hand, and every time you buy or sell a... |
| Jun 2, 2010 | Wikinvest tracks your stock portfolio in real time | A startup called Wikinvest has been trying to challenge established financial sites like Yahoo Finance by offering interactive, data-rich features. And it’s showing even more ambition today with a new tool that allows users to import and tr... |
| May 28, 2010 | International iPad debut paves Apple's roadmap for even higher market cap | Whether the "Windows era" is genuinely over for PCs is a matter of some debate; but the last week in both US and international markets is making clear that the dominance of PCs as technology platforms is now fully challenged by mo... |
| May 17, 2010 | Microsoft to pay $200 M to VirnetX to make future patent suits go away | Two months ago, VPN builder VirnetX was awarded $105.75 million by a Tyler, Texas jury, for Microsoft's infringing upon its patented tunneling protocol for private networks. Realizing that this could actually be the first home run by Virnet... |
| May 14, 2010 | One big do-over: Appeals court vacates its TiVo decision against EchoStar | It has been said that a win is a win. That notion was effectively proven false today, as the US Federal Circuit Court of Appeals granted EchoStar's and former sister company Dish Network's motion to throw out its own decision last March. In... |
| Apr 29, 2010 | HP execs: Fate of Palm's R&D team, iPaq, Pre, and Pixi still undecided | If financial analysts had concerns about Hewlett-Packard's ability to resurrect Palm's flailing fortunes, those concerns may have actually deepened following HP's announcement call with analysts Wednesday afternoon. During the call, which l... |
| Mar 19, 2010 | Palm posts third quarter results: disappointing sales, more net loss | In late February, Palm issued a shareholder warning which said that profits for the full year were going to be "well below" expectations due to a surprisingly slow demand for Palm's smartphones. Thursday evening, the company issue... |
| Mar 4, 2010 | $1 billion takeover bid may mean the end of Novell's makeover addiction | Yesterday's surprise $1 billion buyout offer for Novell from the New York-based private investment group Elliott Management came with a letter, made public yesterday, spelling out the investors' goal for the company. "Novell is a long-... |
| Mar 4, 2010 | Appeals court rules redesigned EchoStar box still infringes on TiVo's DVR | In a precedent-setting win for the company perceived as the originator of "time-shift" video recording, the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals has fully affirmed a lower court's judgment that satellite service provider EchoStar's so... |
| Feb 1, 2010 | The battle over e-book prices hits authors and readers the worst | Over the weekend, the e-book ecosystem shuddered a bit. Major publisher Macmillan met with Amazon.com last Thursday to discuss terms of e-book distribution, and the two parties could not establish terms. Macmillan CEO John Sargent took an a... |
| Nov 6, 2009 | The iPhone's China syndrome: Sales of 5,000 and climbing | The iPhone went on sale last week in China, and it landed more or less with a thud. Cupertino's carrier partner in that country, China Unicom, announced on Tuesday that only 5,000 customers had purchased the phone thus far. At this rate, th... |
| Nov 2, 2009 | Amazon Closes Zappos Deal, Ends Up Paying $1.2 Billion | Amazon earlier this morning announced the official closing of the acquisition of Zappos, a deal which we broke the news about back in July. Turns out the valuation of the online footwear and clothing retailer went up from the reported $928 ... |
| Oct 12, 2009 | Wikinvest lets you find financial data with new Bling search engine | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today! Wikinvest has been taking on popular finance site... |
| Oct 12, 2009 | Wikinvest lets you find financial data with new Bling search engine | Wikinvest has been taking on popular finance sites, especially Yahoo Finance, since its redesign in June. Now it’s adding a feature that Yahoo lacks — a finance-focused search engine, which it calls “Bling.” Visitors to sites like Yahoo and... |
| Aug 28, 2009 | The Dell surprise: A turnaround suggests the warnings were unnecessary | Just last month, Dell issued an out-of-cycle earnings warning telling investors the underpinnings of its business didn't look as solid as it thought, and gross margins could be headed for a freefall rather than the anticipated steep decline... |
| Aug 19, 2009 | HP fumbles its recovery as economic complexion changes | After CEO Mark Hurd led Hewlett-Packard through the aftermath of Carly Fiorina and then the boardroom scandals, you'd think it would have been prepared for the downturn in the global economy. But more than one factor surprised analysts toda... |
| Jul 30, 2009 | Expedia Takes A Hit On Revenues And Net Income, Shares Soar | Online travel services group Expedia has reported its results for Q2 2009, and the financials aren’t looking spectacular, but they are not as bad as expected. Although the number of booking transactions handled by the company actually saw a... |
| Jul 24, 2009 | Fiscal Q4 numbers for Microsoft disappoint, net income down 29% | Analysts had been settling on 13% as the average earnings hit that a company in the IT sector should take in this down economy, which some believe may be finally on the mend. But the early report from Microsoft, minutes in advance of its qu... |
| Jul 22, 2009 | AMD foresees strength in server CPUs, big market opportunity for ATI | In the PC industry, it's the OEMs that are the first to feel the effects of a recovering global economy, as demand for PCs from four of the world's top five producers has picked back up. It could actually be a good holiday quarter for HP an... |
| Jul 2, 2009 | Dish users may continue using DVRs as appeals court stays injunction | As first reported by Dow Jones this morning, the ongoing technology infringement battle between DVR pioneer TiVo and Dish Network has only entered yet another new chapter. A federal appeals court early this morning granted Dish Network's re... |
| Jun 26, 2009 | Roundup: Schmidt is bullish, Yahoo spikes New York Times traffic, Windows 7 on a thumb drive | Google chief executive Eric Schmidt says it’s “reasonable to be optimistic for 2010” — Reuters has more. Michael Jackson traffic set off cyberattack alarms — Google’s automated defense systems interpreted a sudden tsunami of “Micheal Jackso... |
| Jun 24, 2009 | Wikinvest Hopes Redesign Will Attract The Yahoo Finance Crowd | Finance sites like Yahoo Finance and Google Finance haven’t changed much in the past ten years. The fonts are different. Maybe there’s some more real-time quotes and fancier, interactive charts. But at their core they all follow pretty much... |
| May 14, 2009 | Sony loses a billion, but it's not alone | Sony has marked 2008 as a billion dollar loser. But this is slightly good news. In January, the Japanese consumer electronics giant braced the public for 2008 earnings that it expected to be more than two and a half times worse. The bad par... |
| May 5, 2009 | Has Sprint Nextel stopped hemorrhaging subscribers? | They're clotting: Sprint Nextel's Q1 '09 earnings report reported a loss per share of 21 cents in its latest report released Monday, but the long struggle back from consumer service perdition seems to be paying off as subscriber losses dimi... |
| Apr 24, 2009 | The Evolution Of Twitter Spin-Offs: Twitter Begat StockTwits Begat Chart.ly | It was only a matter of time before an app was was built to support another app that was built for Twitter. Chart.ly is a stock charting app to be used directly in conjunction with another Twitter app, StockTwits. Chart.ly lets Twitter user... |
| Apr 22, 2009 | Apple reports the best non-holiday quarter in its history | Another Apple earnings report, another vacation from dreary recession news in the Cupertino Reality Field: The company reported on Wednesday its best non-holiday quarter in history this afternoon, with year-to-year sales of iPods and iPhone... |
| Apr 21, 2009 | IBM feels good, if not 'Sun-ny,' about the months ahead | Here's something unusual: A company that actually wants to talk turkey about its financial outlook for the next year or so. That would be IBM, which brought forth on Monday a slightly softer than expected revenue report for Q1, but which is... |
| Apr 17, 2009 | Google posts its first-ever revenue decline | Describing the current economic landscape as "uncharted territory," Google CEO Eric Schmidt acknowledged that his company hasn't been immune from the prevailing mayhem as he announced the search giant's first-ever quarter-to-quart... |
| Apr 16, 2009 | Google defies economy, ekes out decent Q1 | Google has announced its first quarter financial earnings, and so far the results look decent — given the economic climate. The search giant reported net revenue of $5.5 billion, or $5.16 per share. In terms of historic earnings, Google’s Q... |
| Apr 16, 2009 | Nokia looks up from bottom of well, sees the sky | For all those who find the stock market maddening, here's something else to add to your list: After digesting reports that mobile-phone makers Nokia saw a 90.6% year-to-year drop in net profit, the stock market sent shares in the Finnish fi... |
| Apr 15, 2009 | Amid the minus signs, Intel says there's a bright side | If it wasn't the general state of the economy taking a toll on Intel this quarter, the numbers from Santa Clara would send stockholders racing toward the nearest open window: Operating income nosedived 68% over the prior year's first quarte... |
| Apr 7, 2009 | The clock ticks down for Blockbuster: 35 days and counting | Blockbuster's recent filing with the US Securities and Exchange commission clearly portrays the gravity of the company's current situation. For the company to maintain day-to-day operations, Blockbuster is in the process of refinancing its ... |
| Apr 3, 2009 | BlackBerry looking mighty tasty as RIM reports record Q4 earnings | iPhone who?, Research in Motion's Q4 2009 earnings report seemed to say on Thursday, as the Canadian firm's forth-quarter earnings report showed that the time is now for sales of its BlackBerry smartphones. The 50 millionth BlackBerry hands... |
| Mar 20, 2009 | Palm, holding tight for Pre, reports Q3 earnings | Thursday's Palm Q3 2009 earnings call in a nutshell: Analysts: Are we there yet? Palm: No. Analysts: Are we there yet? Palm: No. Analysts: Are we there yet? Palm: No. Analysts: Hey, are we there yet? You can't blame them for asking. As pred... |
| Mar 19, 2009 | Oracle brings in Q3 results, delivers first-ever cash dividend | As the company did last quarter, Oracle during their Q3 earnings call on Wednesday blamed currency exchange rates for hamstringing their earnings. As it was, the company reported revenues precisely meeting expectations for the third quarter... |
| Mar 2, 2009 | The plan for Sirius XM may wait another two weeks | Sirius XM shareholders may already have reached a boiling point in their efforts to learn how it is working through a mountain of financing debt, the first stage of which came due at the end of last month. Now they will have to wait at leas... |
| Feb 27, 2009 | Dell's Q4: 'Flat' is not a bad place to be | When former CFO Don Carty left Dell Inc. to rejoin his retirement, after having pulled one more rabbit out of his hat and perhaps saved the company, it was last May, and the first signs of the economic crisis (the collapse of the housing ma... |
| Feb 20, 2009 | Apple Mac sales are down, but maybe not everywhere | Although Apple no longer seems immune to the PC industry sales slump, analyst figures released this week don't actually show the entire sales picture. On Tuesday, analyst firm NPD Group released an estimate that Apple computer sales in US r... |
| Feb 19, 2009 | Shareholders approve AMD's foundry spinoff gamble | It is perhaps the most colossal gamble in the history of the semiconductor industry, and now, the chips are down. AMD shareholders yesterday voiced their approval for a deal that effectively spins off the crown jewel of their company -- its... |
| Feb 17, 2009 | Liberty Media deal may keep Sirius XM solvent | When XM and Sirius Satellite Radio merged last year, the acquirer took on financing debt from XM that it didn't expect. Now a white knight may have emerged to help the merged entity meet obligations due now. Very few analysts doubt the abil... |
| Feb 11, 2009 | Report fuels speculation that Sirius XM may find a suitor in EchoStar | Spokespersons for both Sirius XM and EchoStar Communications are declining comment to Betanews this morning after a New York Times story last night cited unnamed sources as saying the two are in business negotiations. According to the story... |
| Feb 3, 2009 | Why a Dell entry into the smartphone field may be premature | Despite a rash of reports to the contrary, Dell isn't necessarily about to take a long rumored step into the smartphone market any time soon, and here are five reasons why. Evidently, Dell's been internally eyeing the mobile phone space sin... |
| Jan 30, 2009 | 25 things you didn't know about Sony's earnings report | As Facebook groans under a blizzard of forwards for the latest "25 Things You Didn't Know About Me" meme, a savvy observer suspects that we're all doing that project to keep our minds off the economy. And based on photo evidence a... |
| Jan 22, 2009 | Nokia profits drop 69% in Q4 | There's not much fun in Finland either today, as mobile-phone giant Nokia turned in an earnings report reflecting glum economic outlooks worldwide. The company's 69% drop in Q4 net profits surprised analysts, and the company also took the e... |
| Jan 22, 2009 | Apple reports best quarter ever, but gets snarly re Palm Pre | For the first time in history, Apple surpassed $10 billion in quarterly revenue during its previous quarter. But a question late in Wednesday's earnings call raised interesting questions about IP and the company's multitouch interface. Appl... |
| Jan 22, 2009 | Windows weighs down on Microsoft, which will cut jobs now | The news from Redmond is actually worse than analysts estimated, with sharply lower revenue from the Client segment (Windows Vista) triggering one of the most substantial layoffs in its history. Choosing not to wait until its originally pla... |
| Jan 21, 2009 | IBM is in its happy place for Q4 | The once oft-heard phrase, "No one ever got fired for buying IBM," certainly extends to IBM's stocks today, as the company released a sunny fourth-quarter earnings report. Late this afternoon, IBM reported a gain in net income to ... |
| Jan 15, 2009 | Nvidia braces its shareholders for a loss | In a warning to investors, Nvidia said it expects its total revenue for fiscal Q4 to be 40 - 50% lower than the previous quarter, "as a result of further weakness in end-user demand and inventory reductions by Nvidia's channel partners... |
| Jan 15, 2009 | Intel releases its Q4 earnings report; revenues soft | After announcing last week that the company expects rather unattractive fourth-quarter results, Intel scheduled its usual fourth-quarter earnings call for 5:30 pm EST Thursday. CEO Paul Otellini, CFO Stacy Smith, and finance and enterprise ... |
| Jan 14, 2009 | Mitigating the bad news that may emerge from Sony | Just last October, Sony gave guidance suggesting it could post a $1.5 billion profit for its entire fiscal year ending next March. But the Japanese business news service Nikkei said this morning that the company may actually now be preparin... |
| Jan 13, 2009 | The Palm Pre: Final thoughts (for now) | It could be here in five months; it could be here sooner. But even before the Palm Pre has a firm release date, there are a few datapoints and checkpoints you need to keep an eye on. Dollars and demand. In the wake of CES, the pricing and s... |
| Jan 10, 2009 | Reading Palm's fortune: Does its life line now lead to glory? | It's a question worth asking: With the Pre looming upon the horizon, is this the same Palm we were talking about only 48 hours ago -- the Palm that was very near to being buried in the desert and fed upon by vultures? The Pre is a tremendou... |
| Dec 31, 2008 | Wikinvest Stock Charts Find Their Way Onto USAToday.com and Forbes.com | Stock charts and data are the lifeblood of all investing sites, even in these slumping times. Most major media sites have investing sections powered by stock data that they license for a pretty penny. San Francisco startup Wikinvest is maki... |
| Dec 23, 2008 | CES Countdown #11: Are the desktop PC's days waning? | Is there anyone you know whose holiday wish list includes a computer weighted down, by design, to his desk? Lack of portability may be becoming a real liability for the desktop PC, but that doesn't mean it'll disappear anytime soon. It shou... |
| Dec 22, 2008 | Add Stock Quotes To Every Post With Upcoming Wikinvest Plugin | Financial bloggers are going to like this one. Wikinvest is getting ready to release a Livequotes plugin that automatically adds a stock quote every time a publicly traded company is mentioned in a post. It auto-detects company names and ad... |
| Dec 19, 2008 | RIM reports a season of good cheer | Research in Motion's Q3 2009 report confirmed that the company met its revised projection from earlier in the month, and indicated that perhaps things aren't so bad in the "land-grab" wireless-handset market. Last December 2, Palm... |
| Dec 19, 2008 | Oracle earns, though flat year-to-year | Second quarter 2009 looked much like second quarter 2008 for Oracle's per-share earnings, announced Thursday in its quarterly call. It would have been better if the dollar hadn't muscled up. GAAP earnings for the Redwood Shores, Calif-based... |
| Dec 18, 2008 | CES Countdown #13: Can automotive electronics maintain forward momentum? | Beginning today and proceeding into the new year, as we come closer to our annual Consumer Electronics Show coverage, BetaNews will be bringing you in-depth analyses of the major issues facing the conference this year. We've compiled a list... |
| Dec 17, 2008 | Adobe really reports record revenue | The software manufacturer reported record revenue for 4Q 2008 and a sixth consecutive year of double-digit growth, making Tuesday's earnings call much more upbeat than the announcement earlier this month of layoffs. Adobe registered fourth-... |
| Dec 17, 2008 | Western Digital to lay off 2,500, close plants | Storage company Western Digital today joined the ranks of companies scaling back their workforces, announcing a cost restructuring that will involve a worldwide headcount reduction and closure of manufacturing facilities. "We expect de... |
| Dec 16, 2008 | Analyst: Sony needs fundamental changes | Sony Corp's shares closed nearly 6% down in Japanese trading today, after financial group Credit Suisse AG classified the company's stock as "underperforming." In a reiteration of statements he made earlier this month, Credit Suis... |
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