4 Tech Stock Stories to Kick Off the New Trading Week
Baidu Inc. (NASDAQ:BIDU): Closing price $142.59 On Monday, the Chinese search major Baidu officially released a HDMI TV plugin, which appears to be a clone of Google’s Chromecast. The devise is being...
View Article3 Telecom Stocks Seeing Action: AT&T to Sell Towers, Sprint Expands LTE,...
AT&T (NYSE:T): AT&T is looking to sell $5 billion worth of cellular towers on the market. This would allow the company to focus on other operations, such as European expansions or a potential...
View ArticleMicrosoft Announces $40 Billion in Buybacks, 5-Cent Dividend Hike and 2...
Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ:MSFT): Current price $33.32 Microsoft has authorized the repurchase of shares worth as much as $40 billion during its fiscal year 2013. The new program supplants the previous...
View ArticleDo CEOs Believe the U.S. Economy Will Soon Pick Up Steam?
There is no doubt that the U.S. economy is still struggling to make a convincing recovery from the financial crisis. Asset prices have been pushed higher by the Federal Reserve while the labor market...
View ArticleSprint Launches Sprint One Up and 2 More Heavily Traded Stocks to Follow
Sprint Nextel Corp. (NYSE:S): Current price $6.26 Sprint debuts a new program that affords customers unlimited talk, text, and high speed data and also the opportunity to upgrade their smartphone every...
View ArticleCan Phone Unlocking Spur Healthy Wireless Competition?
Wireless carriers like Verizon (NYSE:VZ) and AT&T (NYSE:T) received some news earlier this week that is likely to have them looking over their shoulders. On Tuesday, the White House filed a...
View ArticleSprint Adds 34 New Markets to LTE Coverage and 2 More Heavily Traded Stocks...
Sprint Nextel Corp. (NYSE:S): Current price $6.049 Concurrent with Apple’s debut of its latest iPhones, Sprint has added 34 new markets to its burgeoning LTE coverage. The number-three domestic...
View Article4 Merger and Acquisitions Stock Stories Ready for a Midweek Appraisal
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE:GS): Current price $162.86 Goldman Sachs will acquire Deutsche Bank’s stable value arm to expand in defined-contribution plans. The buyer expects to finalize the purchase...
View Article4 Tech Stock Stories Buzzing Away on Thursday
Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG): Closing price $878.17 Google has redone its search algorithm, which is the foundation of the Internet’s dominant search engine, so as to better deal with the longer, more...
View ArticleHere’s Why T-Mobile Is Giving iPad Customers Free Data
T-Mobile Inc. (NYSE:TMUS) — never before a iPad merchant – plans to use the release of the newest Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPad to take down its meanest opponents, AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T), Sprint...
View ArticleDendreon Jumps on Word It’s Seeking a Suitor and 2 Other Hot Stocks to Watch
Dendreon Corp. (NASDAQ:DNDN): Current price $2.75 Dendreon shares are up by more than 10 percent Monday in high volume after the manufacturer of the prostate-cancer drug Provenge gained the most in...
View ArticleVerizon’s Dividends Shine: So Why Are Investors Worried?
AT&T (NYSE:T) has a lot of hungry eyes pointed its way recently, especially after a good dividends this year, sitting pretty at 5.1 percent. The company’s shares are at $35, up 5 percent this...
View ArticleAlcatel-Lucent Is Chosen By Sprint for TDD-LTE Network and 2 More Heavily...
Alcatel-Lucent (NYSE: ALU): Current price $3.31 Alcatel’s new ultra-broadband TDD-LTE mobile access network has been chosen by Sprint, making use of newly-purchased 2.5GHz spectrum for a network...
View ArticleJPMorgan Strategist Says Bull Run Gets No Respect and 2 More Heavily Traded...
JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE:JPM): Current price $52.06 Commenting during CNBC’s Halftime Report, JPMorgan’s chief United States equity strategist Tom Lee remarked that the stock market’s current...
View ArticleFDA Okays Pfizer’s Embeda Extended Release Capsules and 2 Other Hot Stocks to...
Pfizer Inc. (NYSE:PFE): Current price $31.24 Pfizer has announced that the FDA has given a nod t0 a Prior Approval Supplement for Embeda (morphine sulfate and naltrexone hydrochloride) Extended Release...
View ArticleMicron Develops New Computing Architecture and 2 Other Hot Stocks to Watch
Micron Technology Inc. (NASDAQ:MU): Current price $19.86 On Monday, Micron reported that it has developed a fundamentally new computing architecture that can perform high-speed, comprehensive search...
View ArticleSprint Laments Customers’ Lack of Greenness and 2 More Heavily Traded Stocks...
Sprint Nextel Corp. (NYSE:S): Current price $7.35 According to Sprint Chief Executive Dan Hesse, American consumers are so far not demanding sustainable products, like mobile phones made with recycled...
View ArticleDish and DirecTV: Two Different Strategies to Stay Relevant
The so-called act of “cord-cutting” — the movement away from pay-TV providers and toward Web-based services — is increasingly putting the television industry at risk of becoming obsolete. But no area...
View ArticleSprint Will Offer HTC One Max Smartphone and 2 Other Hot Stocks to Watch
Sprint Nextel Corp. (NYSE:S): Current price $6.29 On Wednesday, Sprint said that by the end of 2013 it will offer HTC One Max smartphone to customers. It is expected that the new device will support 4G...
View ArticleHere’s Why T-Mobile Is Giving iPad Customers Free Data
T-Mobile Inc. (NYSE:TMUS) — never before a iPad merchant – plans to use the release of the newest Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPad to take down its meanest opponents, AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T), Sprint...
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