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This weekend in Barron's online: the pros and cons of memory-foam mattresses and the prospects for Facebook's IPO and for aircraft maker Embraer and semiconductor testing equipment maker ChipMOS. Cover Story "Sex or Sleep?" by Miriam Gottfried. Sales of memory-foam mattresses have surged as more...

This weekend in Barron's online: The Dow Jones Industrial Average is overdue for a makeover, and the prospects for eBay, Thermo Fisher Scientific and Oracle. Cover Story "Shake Up the Dow!" by Andrew Bary. Barron's cover story this week suggests that the Dow Jones Industrial Average risks...

Hewlett-Packard is planning to combine its PC and printer businesses. Is this a smart move or a cheap way to delay the company's demise? “Instead of innovating, HP (NYSE: HPQ) is masking the incompetency of the PC business by merging it with the stronger printer business,” Trip Chowdhry, the...

The focus turns to earnings from retailers this week. Abercrombie & Fitch (NYSE: ANF) and Nordstrom (NYSE: JWN) kicked things off last week. The former posted lower earnings per share in line with estimates, while the latter narrowly beat EPS expectations but revenues fell short. Here is a look...

On the cusp of an event for the Windows 8 app store, one research firm has dealt a painful blow to the forthcoming OS. "Windows 8 will be largely irrelevant to the users of traditional PCs, and we expect effectively no upgrade activity from Windows 7 to Windows 8 in that form factor," research...

If you can't beat ‘em, run! That's the message Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) has been sending to tech companies that thought they could compete with the iPad after successfully posing a threat to the iPhone. But unlike the iPhone, which was limited in reach by an exclusive agreement with AT&T (NYSE: T...

The following dividend-paying companies offer attractive returns on equity and are expected to have strong earnings per share growth over the next five years. Their stocks are also trading in the ballpark of their 52-week highs. Estee Lauder (NYSE: EL): The New York-based cosmetics company...

This is what happens when you spend 10 years manufacturing crap. Meg Whitman, the wannabe-politician-turned-HP-CEO, has reportedly told a French newspaper that she believes it is possible Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) could become the world's number-one PC manufacturer. That's according to TechCrunch,...

Some say yes. But is it worth the risk? In an iPhone report released this morning, Rodman & Renshaw discussed a lot of key points, including the likelihood that supply constraints could limit the upside of Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) most successful device. “Layering on the estimated 4 million...

Is today a big day for savings, or just a big day for retailers to cash in on gullible consumers? That depends on where you shop. While Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) shoppers could get lost in the mountain of discounts being offered today, many corporations are taking advantage of the Cyber Monday...

For a holiday-shorted week, there will still be plenty for investors and analysts to mull over on the earnings front. Quarterly results from global tech company Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ), farm and construction equipment maker Deere & Co. (NYSE: DE) and food companies Campbell Soup (NYSE: CPB...

Do they grow on trees? Did they come from another planet? Is there a secret lab in South America that builds them from scratch? No one knows for sure. But after encountering dozens of these creatures myself, I figured it was time to investigate. Let's start by taking a closer look at the four...

Even the most brilliant minds in finance can make terrible mistakes. And when they do, the results are usually as bad as a lame summer blockbuster that ultimately flopped. 3. They Don't Know When to Quit Is there anyone left that believes that MF Global (NYSE: MF) will make a comeback? It's not...

The money was raised to increase its presence in additional markets. With backing from Two and a Half Men star Ashton Kutcher, Zaarly was inspired by the concept of a traditional bazaar. Earlier this year, Bo Fishback, the company's co-founder and CEO, told Benzinga about this premise. “People...

It's a good month for undoing bad mistakes. Earlier this week, Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) announced that it had cancelled its ridiculous plans to split its streaming and DVD businesses into two separate companies. Now it seems that Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) might follow suit. According to the Wall...