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Dell Drops Hard on Q2 Earnings Results
Tuesday, August 16, 2011 - 3:11pm | 204Shares of Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) are trading lower in the after-hours following the release of the company's Q2 earnings results. Currently, shares are lower by 6.65%, trading at $14.75; they ended the regular session higher by 1.94%, at $15.80. Dell reported non-GAAP Q2 EPS of $0.54 ($0.48 per...
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Zings Of The Day, August 16, 2011
Tuesday, August 16, 2011 - 2:53pm | 136The planned purchase by Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) of Motorola Mobility (NYSE: MMI) is making allegiances of some companies involved murkier and intensifying the playing field even more. Yea, because it wasn't already an Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL)-Android war before. THIS, and only this, will muddy things...
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HTC Sues Apple for Patent Infringement
Tuesday, August 16, 2011 - 1:13pm | 55HTC Corporation today took legal action against Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) filing a complaint with the United States International Trade Commission and the U.S. District Court of Delaware for patent infringement by Apple's Mac computer product lines as well Apple's iPhone, iPad and iPod product...
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Resilient Stock Market Shows Future Upside
Tuesday, August 16, 2011 - 11:03am | 334The stock market is trading slightly lower. This is a classic pull back after a 100 point S&P 500 move in the last week. Essentially, the markets are digesting the recent bounce and looking at the big picture. The heads of Germany and France met today and will hold a conference call at noon....
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Five Stocks Elvis Might Have Enjoyed
Tuesday, August 16, 2011 - 10:00am | 482Today marks the 34th anniversary of the death of the King, Elvis Presley. Like many pop culture icons, he died with a mix of drugs in a system (14 were active in his bloodstream at time of death, including 10 in significant quantities) and a hole in his heart (more or less metaphoric, although he...
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Tech Has Early Short Circuit
Tuesday, August 16, 2011 - 9:44am | 243This morning, it is the tech heavy NASDAQ Composite that is leading all of the major stock indexes lower. The NASDAQ Composite is declining lower by 1.49 percent. Many of the market leading NASDAQ stocks are coming under heavy selling pressure and this is certainly weighing down the index. Apple...
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Not-so-Stunning News: iPad 3 Not Coming in 2011
Tuesday, August 16, 2011 - 7:19am | 215Were we supposed to be surprised? If you're sick of the back and forth nonsense of the iPad 3 and its release date reports, get in line: we're all getting sick of this. Did the rumor-starters forget that the iPad 2 was released this past winter? Did they forget that, if Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) cares...
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Apple Forges Samsung Galaxy Photo to Win Lawsuit? Yeah Right!
Tuesday, August 16, 2011 - 6:59am | 246Don't believe everything you read on the Internet. There's an image floating around the Web that supposedly came from one of Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) legal filings in Europe. Engadget has the full report (as well as the full, un-cropped image). Anyone who has used the Galaxy Tab 10.1 will recognize...
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Google Bought Motorola to Keep it Out of Microsoft's Hands: Report
Tuesday, August 16, 2011 - 5:35am | 255Google's (NASDAQ: GOOG) $12.5 billion purchase of Motorola Mobility was a calculated defensive play against Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), according to a report from Gigaom.com. Monday's announcement of Google's newest acquisition sent the tech blogosphere into hyper mode, as critics and supporters...
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US Stock Futures Down; Wal-Mart Earnings In Focus
Tuesday, August 16, 2011 - 5:11am | 533US stock futures are lower this morning, as investors are awaiting earnings from Wal-Mart Stores Inc (NYSE: WMT). Futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average dipped 77 points to 11,326.00 and S&P 500 index futures fell 12.60 points to 1,185.80. Nasdaq 100 futures dropped 23.50 points to 2,183....
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Earnings Scheduled For August 16
Tuesday, August 16, 2011 - 3:19am | 481TJX Companies Inc (The) (NYSE: TJX) is expected to report its Q2 EPS at $0.89 on revenue of $5.44 billion. Home Depot Inc (The) (NYSE: HD) is projected to report its Q2 EPS at $0.83 on revenue of $19.96 billion. Saks Incorporated (NYSE: SKS) is estimated to post a Q2 loss at $0.09 per share on...
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Stocks To Watch For August 16
Tuesday, August 16, 2011 - 2:52am | 299Some of the stocks that may grab investor focus today are: Wall Street expects Dell Inc (NASDAQ: DELL) to report its Q2 EPS at $0.49 on revenue of $15.76 billion. Dell shares jumped 4.19% to $16.15 in after-hours trading. Agilent Technologies Inc (NYSE: A) reported a 61% rise in its fiscal third-...
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Sony's "Oh, Crap!" Moment: Nobody Wants a PS Vita
Monday, August 15, 2011 - 5:15pm | 500And all this time I thought that a delay was the worst thing that could happen to Sony's (NYSE: SNE) next-gen handheld. It turns out that there was something far worse brewing: the simple fact that people don't care about PS Vita. At all! That's according to Lyle Hall and Matthew Seymour at Heavy...
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oBaz's Brian Ficho: "We're Entirely Community-Driven"
Monday, August 15, 2011 - 2:55pm | 1107There are a lot of bizarre sites in the world. Lately, there have been a few bazaar sites as well. But only one combines the art of haggling with the benefits of crowdsourcing: oBaz.com. “The group is very important,” said Brian Ficho, the founder and CEO of oBaz. “We're entirely community-driven...
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Google-Motorola Puts Microsoft on Call
Monday, August 15, 2011 - 1:08pm | 181(TheStreet) -- Google's (NASDAQ: GOOG) $12.5 billion all-cash deal for Motorola (NYSE: MMI) drew new battle lines Monday as the leading software shop jumped into phone making. Beyond the obvious boost in the patent arms race, Google's combination with Motorola creates a crucial hardware/software...