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Apple Down 2% After Q4 Earnings Beat, 33.8 Million iPhones Sold
Monday, October 28, 2013 - 4:49pm | 540Read More...Shares of Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) are down more than two percent after the company announced its fourth fiscal quarter results. The Mac maker reported a Q4 EPS of $8.26 versus the street estimate of $7.88. Earnings per share were down five percent from the year-ago period. Revenue arrived at $37.5...
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Keeping an Eye on the Four 'New' Horsemen of Tech
Wednesday, October 9, 2013 - 1:15pm | 611Read More...According to Forbes, analyst Jonathan Krinsky of Miller Tabak recently drew an interesting parallel between four contemporary tech stocks – Facebook (NASDAQ: FB), LinkedIn (NYSE: LNKD), Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX), and Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) – and the so-called “Four Horsemen” of the 1990s – Cisco (...
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Six Tech Stocks Below Their 50 Day Moving Average
Tuesday, September 24, 2013 - 7:57am | 571Read More...The stock market continues to move higher despite a few days of slight correction and consolidation. This is making it more difficult to find value-priced stocks. If you’re looking for names in the tech field, we put together a list of stocks priced below their 50 day moving average. AOL (NYSE...
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BlackBerry Workforce May be Cut Up to 40 Percent (BBRY)
Friday, September 20, 2013 - 9:32am | 669Read More...Things are not going well at BlackBerry (NASDAQ: BBRY). Everybody knows that. The company is getting ready to cut its workforce by as much as 40 percent by the end of the year, according to The Wall Street Journal. As of March, BlackBerry had 12,700 employees. Under the worst-case scenario, by...
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Don't Be a Jerk! You'll Make More Money
Wednesday, September 4, 2013 - 7:59am | 676Read More...Regardless of your industry, the push towards a kinder and gentler office environment is here to stay. Whether you’re a small business owner, a manager or a trader, know this: If you work for, invest in or act like a jerk, you’re probably not making as much money as you could be. Here’s why...
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SLIDESHOW: Who Could Replace Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer?
Sunday, September 1, 2013 - 11:43am | 135Read More...Last month, Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) CEO Steve Ballmer announced that he planned to retire in 2014. Between now and Ballmer's retirement, Microsoft will embark on a journey to find a suitable replacement. Who will it be? Which execs -- in and outside of Microsoft -- are most likely to get the job...
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TiVO Rises After Slight Earnings Beat (TIVO)
Tuesday, August 27, 2013 - 6:26pm | 538Read More...Shares of TiVo (NASDAQ: TIVO) are up more than one percent in after hours trading following news of the firm's slight earnings beat. TiVo reported an adjusted second quarter EPS of $(0.09) versus the Street estimate of $(0.10). The company also reported revenue of $100.1 million (up 85 percent...
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Tech Stocks Are Paying Record Dividends - But Are They Still Sexy? (DELL, IBM, MSFT, ORCL)
Thursday, July 11, 2013 - 10:16am | 773Read More...What happened to the good old days when stocks were priced in fractions, brokers had a telephone handset on each ear, and tech companies were growth stocks? All of that, including the latter, has changed—at least to some extent. Technology stocks are supposed to be a trader’s dream. If you’re...
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What Does Apple Have Planned for Today's Shareholder Meeting?
Wednesday, February 27, 2013 - 12:27pm | 571Read More...All eyes will be on Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) at 9:00 a.m. PST (12:00 p.m. EST) when the company meets with shareholders. Unlike a traditional Apple event, the company is not expected to announce any new products. While there have been rumors of a watch and other new products (along with a few...
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Meraki Acquisition Brings "Simple" and "Secure" Cloud Managed Networks to Cisco
Monday, November 19, 2012 - 1:33pm | 438Read More...Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) announced this weekend that it plans to acquire Meraki, a cloud-managed network infrastructure company, for $1.2 billion. The company, which "brings the benefits of the cloud to edge and branch networks," aims to deliver easy-to-manage wireless, switching and security...
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Cisco Spikes 6% After Earnings
Wednesday, November 14, 2012 - 11:25am | 551Read More...Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO) is up more than six percent Wednesday morning after the company reported that its fiscal first-quarter revenue came in at $11.9 billion (an increase of six percent year over year), beating the analyst consensus of $11.78 billion. Net income arrived at $2.6 billion --...
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Barron's Recap (5/26/12): The Top 50 Annuities, and Tech Firms Hoard Cash
Sunday, May 27, 2012 - 8:05am | 1041Read More...This weekend in Barron's online: the top 50 annuities, Intel finally goes mobile, what tech companies should do with all that cash, and the prospects for Snap-on. Cover Story "The Top 50 Annuities" by Karen Hube. A year ago, guaranteed payouts and benefits on all kinds of annuities were far more...
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RingCentral Goes Down, Raising Questions About its Stability
Thursday, May 10, 2012 - 1:31pm | 287Read More...Is the cloud-based phone service worth the trouble of enduring one major outage a year? Benzinga uses RingCentral. In 2011, on our company's most important day of the year, the service went down, effectively terminating our ability to make or receive calls with our office phones. It was awful, to...
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Does Apple Still Want to Buy TiVO?
Wednesday, April 11, 2012 - 10:21am | 1068Read More...The Mac maker was once rumored to be interested in a TiVo takeover. But with rumors of a buyout heating up, it isn't Apple's name that continues to come up. Rather, it is Apple's chief rival, Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), that is making waves this week with what could be a top-secret plan to take...
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Intel Finally Goes Mobile
Wednesday, September 14, 2011 - 1:47am | 637Read More...In our previous article on whether one of the old-tech troika, Intel, can grow again, the question was whether Intel can put itself on the map in the new world of mobile computer. On Tuesday, Intel finally scored a card when it unveiled its partnership with Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) to optimize its...











