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IBM Earnings Preview: Another Revenue Decline Expected
Monday, October 15, 2012 - 10:21am | 568Read More...International Business Machines (NYSE: IBM), whose share price pulled back last week from a multiyear high, is scheduled to report its third-quarter 2012 results Tuesday, October 16, after the closing bell. Investors will be looking for the company to get back on the right track after last quarter'...
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PC Sales Expected to Decline for First Time Since 2001
Thursday, October 11, 2012 - 9:08am | 603Read More...After 11 years of growth, sales of PCs -- including notebooks, netbooks and desktops -- are expected to decline. This revelation comes from three different researchers. In a report by IHS (NYSE: IHS) iSuppli, the researcher showed that worldwide PC shipments will contract this year by 1.2 percent...
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Earnings Expectations for the Week of August 20
Monday, August 20, 2012 - 12:33pm | 943Read More...Last week, big-box retailers Walmart (NYSE: WMT) and Home Depot (NYSE: HD) said their earnings and sales rose in the most recent quarter, and they both boosted their full-year earnings per share (EPS) guidance. More earnings reports are due from retailers this week, highlighted by second-quarter...
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Hewlett-Packard Outsourcing Decision is Bad News for Apple's Chief Manufacturer
Tuesday, August 14, 2012 - 3:03pm | 176Read More...Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) has decided to shift its manufacturing efforts away from Foxconn, the legendary manufacturing corporation that produces Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) hottest gadgets. According to DigiTimes, "upstream supply chain" sources indicate that while Foxconn currently holds 20 percent...
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Earnings Expectations for the Week of August 13
Monday, August 13, 2012 - 6:33am | 938Read More...Retail earnings season got off to a start last week when drug store chain CVS Caremark (NYSE: CVS) and department store operators Kohl's (NYSE: KSS), Macy's (NYSE: M) and Nordstrom (NYSE: JWN) bested second-quarter earnings estimates, while JCPenney (NYSE: JCP) reported a net loss. Many more...
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Barron's Recap (8/11/12): China's Top Brands
Monday, August 13, 2012 - 6:14am | 683Read More...This weekend in Barron's online: 10 top Chinese brands, a look at Sears, GameStop, and Reading International, and how to play American exceptionalism. Cover Story "10 Chinese Brands You Must Know" by Kopin Tan. The Chinese government would like nothing more than for its 1.4 billion citizens to "...
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Acer Thinks Microsoft Could Destroy Its PC Partners
Wednesday, August 8, 2012 - 1:23pm | 440Read More...Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) hopes to turn its first tablet, Surface, into a successful competitor to Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPad. However, Windows PC and tablet manufacturer Acer fears that the Surface could also have a detrimental effect on their prized industry. "On one hand Microsoft is our...
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EMC-Lenovo Deal Troubles HP Investors
Wednesday, August 1, 2012 - 4:26pm | 539Read More...EMC Corp.(NYSE: EMC), the biggest maker of data storage devices, and Lenovo Group, the world's second-biggest personal-computer maker, announced a major partnership Wednesday intended to help boost sales of storage equipment and servers that run corporate networks. That could may be bad news for...
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HP Tanks on Jim Chanos Critique, Instantly Rebounds
Wednesday, July 18, 2012 - 1:13pm | 228Read More...Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) declined sharply this afternoon after famed hedge fund manager Jim Chanos spoke at the Delivering Alpha conference in New York, referring to the stock as the ultimate value trap. Chanos added that it reminded him of Kodak (EKDKQ), and that the business is going from PCs...
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Hewlett-Packard is Doomed if This Happens
Monday, July 16, 2012 - 1:52pm | 229Read More...Hewlett-Packard (NASDAQ: HPQ) is on the cusp of losing its title as the world's largest manufacturer of PCs. According to Reuters, Lenovo could be the firm that steals that crown. The Beijing, China-based corporation, which acquired IBM's (NYSE: IBM) personal computer business in 2005, could...
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Analyst: Microsoft Should Give Away Surface for Free
Tuesday, June 19, 2012 - 12:48pm | 584Read More...Instead of spending hundreds of millions of dollars on marketing, one analyst believes that Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) should give away its new tablet. "One hundred million to two hundred million dollars [worth of these] devices should be given away for free," Trip Chowdhry, the Managing Director of...
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IBM Powers the World's Most Powerful Supercomputer
Monday, June 18, 2012 - 8:21am | 395Read More...After a two-year loss, the United States has regained the top spot in supercomputing, thanks to a machine built by IBM (NYSE: IBM). The supercomputer -- which can be found at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory -- can produce 16.32 sustained petaflops. According to...
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Hewlett-Packard, Yahoo! and Other Stocks Insiders Are Buying
Tuesday, June 5, 2012 - 7:01am | 1093Read More...Insiders may sell shares for any number of reasons, but there is really only one reason insiders buy shares of a company -- they believe the stock price will move higher and they want to profit from it. Pullbacks and sell-offs provide a perfect opportunity for investors who have faith in a company...
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This is what a $200 MacBook Pro Looks Like
Thursday, May 24, 2012 - 9:27am | 336Read More...Some might say it's a work of art. Others might say that it's the work of thugs at a nightclub. In either case, there's no denying the originality of this MacBook Pro, which features a Core i5 2.4 GHz, 4GBs of RAM, and the unbelievable price tag of just $200: Image Source: Craigslist Ad Yes, it...
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Earnings Expectations for the Week of May 21 (BBY, LOW, DELL, HPQ)
Sunday, May 20, 2012 - 9:34am | 990Read More...This earnings season may be starting to wind down, but there are still plenty of quarterly reports on the schedule. This week we will hear from more retailers, including Best Buy (NYSE: BBY), Lowe's (NYSE: LOW) and Tiffany (NYSE: TIF). Tech companies Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) and Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:...
