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My Blackberry Is Not Working! Great Technology Humor
Saturday, January 22, 2011 - 5:40pm | 216Some great British humor for the weekend, mentioned in a recent Casey Research newsletter. You will hear about Apples (AAPL), Research In Motion's (RIMM) BlackBerry, and Microsoft's (MSFT) Windows. By the way, non-techies should know before they watch: Orange is a European cell phone service...
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Earnings Preview: CA Inc - Analyst Blog
Friday, January 21, 2011 - 6:31pm | 795CA Inc. (CA) is scheduled to announce its third quarter 2011 results on January 25, 2011 and we do not see too much variation in analyst estimates at this point. Second Quarter Overview The company reported decent second quarter 2011 numbers, with earnings per share (EPS) of 46 cents,...
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Stock Market Trouble as Weakness Shows - Voice of the People
Friday, January 21, 2011 - 6:31pm | 610Zacks' Voice of the People Highlights user inthemoneystocks: "Stock Market Trouble as Weakness Shows" from the People & Picks community. For more Voice of the People, visit http://at.zacks.com/?id=5851 Featured Post Stock Market Trouble as Weakness Shows Earnings from the big name companies...
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Stock Market Trouble as Weakness Shows - Voice of the People
Friday, January 21, 2011 - 6:15pm | 610Zacks' Voice of the People Highlights user inthemoneystocks: "Stock Market Trouble as Weakness Shows" from the People & Picks community. For more Voice of the People, visit http://at.zacks.com/?id=5851 Featured Post Stock Market Trouble as Weakness Shows Earnings from the big name companies...
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Earnings Preview: CA Inc - Analyst Blog
Friday, January 21, 2011 - 5:25pm | 795CA Inc. (CA) is scheduled to announce its third quarter 2011 results on January 25, 2011 and we do not see too much variation in analyst estimates at this point. Second Quarter Overview The company reported decent second quarter 2011 numbers, with earnings per share (EPS) of 46 cents,...
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IBM Vice President Chucks Holdings (IBM)
Friday, January 21, 2011 - 5:18pm | 121Is it nearing a top? Who knows, but one International Business Machines Corporation (NYSE: IBM) Vice-President is chucking his holdings in the name fast and furious. Robert C. Weber, a VP at the company, was busy today selling a total of 37,662 shares of IBM in addition to the exercise and sale of...
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iPhone 5, iPad 2 to focus on social networking
Friday, January 21, 2011 - 3:13pm | 584Social networking is apparently Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) new motif. The company has filed six social networking patents in the past year. The development of social networking apps are a key part of plans for the next generation iPhone 5 and iPad 2. An Apple trademark patent application was recently...
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The Most Amazing Thing I've Ever Seen (AAPL, AOL, GOOG, YHOO, MSFT)
Friday, January 21, 2011 - 2:30pm | 446Search engines have come a long way, from the days of searching the internet through AOL (NYSE: AOL). Remember when we had to use the exact address or it wouldn't return a search result? It seems like forever ago, but it was really only around 15 years ago, which is less than a generation....
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[Video] CNBC - Interview with F5 Networks (FFIV) CEO John McAdams
Friday, January 21, 2011 - 12:46pm | 477This was not the highest quality of questioning by the CNBC anchors... comparing F5 Networks (FFIV) to Apple (AAPL)? Asking the CEO to comment on if the stock price is correct? Cmon now folks - you can do better than that. Anyhow for those interested here is a 6 minute piece with the CEO of F5,...
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Options Ex Concludes: What You Should Know Next Time
Friday, January 21, 2011 - 11:01am | 477Options expiration week is always a very volatile and sometime violent trading week. This is a time period when the institutional money will bully stocks around like a nerd on the playground. It is always important to realize that the institutional money(hedge funds, bank prop firms, mutual funds)...
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Shake Up At H-P (HPQ)
Friday, January 21, 2011 - 10:59am | 263Not happy with the direction the company was going, Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) decided it shake up its board, ousting 4 board members, and bringing in 4 new ones, including former eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY) CEO Meg Whitman. In addition to Whitman, HP added Shumeet Banerji, CEO of Booz & Co; Gary...
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Board Shake-Up Should Be Positive For HPQ Shares, J.P. Morgan Reports
Friday, January 21, 2011 - 9:16am | 176Overweight-rated Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) announced a Board shake-up yesterday, J.P. Morgan reports. “We believe that the director changes and the pedigrees of the new directors should be a positive shot-in-the-arm for the stock,” J.P. Morgan writes. “The prior Board had been under pressure...
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What's Next For Google, Post-Schmidt (GOOG, AAPL, VZ, T)
Friday, January 21, 2011 - 8:35am | 377As Benzinga readers know, Larry Page, Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) co-founder, will take the title of CEO from Eric Schmidt in April. Google has dominated the internet for 13 years as both a search engine and as an advertising machine. As newer sites like Facebook emerge and become popular, however,...
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US Stock Futures Signal Higher Start On Wall Street, General Electric Reports Upbeat Earnings
Friday, January 21, 2011 - 8:19am | 372US stock futures are higher this morning after General Electric (NYSE: GE) reported upbeat quarterly results. Google Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG) also reported better-than-expected quarterly earnings after the Thursday's closing bell. Futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 31 points to 11,805 and...
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Value Buying for Las Vegas Sands
Friday, January 21, 2011 - 6:09am | 438It's been a while since The Stock Trading Advisor has announce any buying trades. Over the past 1-2 months, we've been selling off counters at decent profits and waiting for the right opportunity to enter. Do not worry, no, we have not forgotten how to buy. A few days again Apple seems to...