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Top 4 Tech Trends for 2011
Tuesday, December 21, 2010 - 10:00am | 227(TheStreet) -- It was a busy, rollercoaster year for the technology sector, marked by enterprises' return to tech spending, a slew of M&A in storage and security, Cisco's (NASDAQ: CSCO) sector-wide setback and, lest we forget, the debut of Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPad, which juiced the over-...
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KANZAN Licenses NCR's Two-Sided Thermal Paper IP
Tuesday, December 21, 2010 - 9:33am | 55KANZAN Spezialpapiere GmbH has agreed to license two-sided thermal paper intellectual property (IP) from NCR Corporation (NYSE: NCR). This license gives KANZAN the worldwide right to make, use and sell two-sided thermal paper under NCR's two-sided thermal paper intellectual property.
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Mad Money Lightning Round: Cramer Likes Oracle, American Tower (ENTG, JBL, PFE, ORCL, AAPL, AMT, S, T, VZ)
Tuesday, December 21, 2010 - 4:24am | 261On CNBC's Mad Money, Jim Cramer said during the Lightning Round that Entegris (NASDAQ: ENTG) is “good. A nice little speculative stock. It's a packaging play on semiconductors.” He also likes Jabil Circuit (NYSE: JBL). For Pfizer (NYSE: PFE), he said, "Nah, there's nothing there. They don't have...
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Barry Ritholtz Nervous About Markets
Monday, December 20, 2010 - 6:27pm | 75Barry Ritholtz is on CNBC's Fast Money and he believes that the market is likely to top sometime in the first half of the year, as retail investors come back into the market. Ritholtz said he is worried when retail investors begin to make claims about companies like Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) or Netflix...
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Huge Purchase Of Dell Shares (DELL)
Monday, December 20, 2010 - 4:51pm | 103Shares of Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) are down almost 2% today, despite news just coming out that CEO Michael Dell purchased a large block of shares on Friday, some 7.37 million of them, at a price of $13.87. There has been recent speculation that Dell could go private, but those rumors have been...
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Dell Inc. Chairman buys 7.37 Million Shares of DELL
Monday, December 20, 2010 - 4:47pm | 56In a Form 4 filed earlier today, Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) Chairman of the Board, Michael Dell, reported that he bought 7,370,000 shares of DELL on December 17th for an average price of $13.57. The transaction totaled $100,002,056. Mr. Dell owns 232,912,682 direct shares and 30,047,885 indirect...
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Top 5 Corporate Scandals of 2010
Monday, December 20, 2010 - 4:05pm | 382(TheStreet) -- I write this column with hesitancy. Is it really advisable to discuss the top five corporate scandals of 2010 when there are still 11 days to go? Some of the biggest unpleasant surprises of past years have taken place in December, with Bernie Madoff's unwinding being the best example...
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Best Buy Eliminating Restocking Fees (BBY)
Monday, December 20, 2010 - 1:29pm | 135Best Buy (NYSE: BBY) announced that it is eliminating restocking fees, according to CNET. Best Buy eliminated most restocking fees on returns this past Saturday. The retailer will still charge a restocking fee on special order items, a whopping 25 percent. Cutomers who were charged restocking fees...
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What's Hot on TheStreet
Monday, December 20, 2010 - 1:10pm | 272Here's what Benzinga's reading on our friend, TheStreet.com. What's Hot On TheStreet In College Bowls, Payoffs Are Ahead of Playoffs College football is three games and $3.7 million in payouts into its bowl season with three weeks to go until the national title game. Let the holiday money parade...
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Monday's Mid-Day Options Volume Leaders (C, BAC, AAPL, MTG, CHK)
Monday, December 20, 2010 - 12:11pm | 107The overall market is essentially flat to start the holiday-shortened week. Currently, the S&P 500 (CBOE: SPX) is trading at $1,242.17, off by 1.74 points. Here are your mid-day options volume leaders… 1. Citigroup (NYSE: C) 184,514 contracts, 80.6% calls, 19.4% puts 2. Bank of America (NYSE:...
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Larry Ellison: Watch Out H-P (HPQ, ORCL)
Monday, December 20, 2010 - 11:26am | 317Larry Ellison and Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) are gunning for you Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ), so you better watch out, and you better not cry. You better not pout, because he's about to tell you why. Oracle is rapidly gaining ground on HP and IBM (NYSE: IBM) in the high-end server market Ellison said...
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Fluor Wins Facility Management Contract - Analyst Blog
Monday, December 20, 2010 - 9:33am | 600Fluor Corporation (FLR) has been offered a design and construction management contract by International Business Machines (IBM) for capital projects at three new locations in the northeast United States. Fluor is currently working at eight other IBM sites in Arizona, California, Colorado,...
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Fluor Wins Facility Management Contract - Analyst Blog
Monday, December 20, 2010 - 9:00am | 600Fluor Corporation (FLR) has been offered a design and construction management contract by International Business Machines (IBM) for capital projects at three new locations in the northeast United States. Fluor is currently working at eight other IBM sites in Arizona, California, Colorado,...
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BMC Software Seals CenITex Deal - Analyst Blog
Friday, December 17, 2010 - 4:33pm | 804Leading large enterprise software company, BMC Software Inc. (BMC) recently announced that CenITex, the shared-services information technology (IT) agency of the government of Victoria (Australia) has successfully implemented its proactive operations monitoring and management solution. Financial...
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BMC Software Seals CenITex Deal - Analyst Blog
Friday, December 17, 2010 - 4:00pm | 804Leading large enterprise software company, BMC Software Inc. (BMC) recently announced that CenITex, the shared-services information technology (IT) agency of the government of Victoria (Australia) has successfully implemented its proactive operations monitoring and management solution. Financial...