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Private Investment Fund Pushes Electronic Arts Shares to Year Long High

The publicly traded shares of video game publisher Electronic Arts have climbed by a healthy 2 percent in order to reach the highest level of the last year as a private investment fund called Relational Investors signaled that it aims to be more involved in the operation of the company. The two entities have annou...

1 June 2011
09:44 GMT

Soon to Be Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt to Sell $335 Million Worth of Shares

Along with the strong financial results for Q4 and the leadership change, Google filed another document revealing that current CEO Eric Schmidt plans to sell a big chunk of his Google shares over the coming year. In total, Schmidt will sell six percent of his stake, valued at today's trading price at around $335...

21 January 2011
10:14 GMT

Palm Reports Low Profits, Shares Go Down

Sunnyvale-based mobile phone maker Palm has recently announced the financial results for the third quarter of its financial year 2010, and reported total revenues on a GAAP basis of $349.9 million. At the same time, the company also revealed that its gross profit and gross margin were of $47.0 million and 13.4 perce...

22 March 2010
06:33 GMT

Apple Was America's Third Most Valuable Company ‘Briefly’

According to a report by CNN Money, Apple is now America’s third most valuable company. The burst is due, in part, to Apple’s move to include iPad pre-orders on Friday. At the time, Softpedia reported that Apple’s online store had been taken offline to be updated with the availability of iPad pre-or...

13 March 2010
14:11 GMT

Clearwire Plans Raising $1.5 Billion for 4G Expansion

On Tuesday, Clearwire Corporation announced plans to raise $1.564 billion in investments, so as to be able to continue the expansion of its 4G wireless network. According to the company, it has signed an agreement with Sprint Nextel Corporation, Comcast Corporation, Time Warner Cable Inc., Intel Corporation, Eagle Ri...

11 November 2009
13:01 GMT

To Buy or to Sell Apple Shares, That Is the Question

Apple watchers say the company's stock valuation is too attractive to ignore, even with concerns about Jobs already being factored in. Most analysts trust Apple to have a good succession plan in place, should its iconic CEO be leaving soon, getting back on track and sustaining its record of innovation. ThinkPanm...

16 January 2009
04:29 GMT

Apple Posts 2009 Proxy Statement Online

Apple released its 2009 proxy statement yesterday. The document outlines the schedule for the company's annual meeting, as well as the board's recommendations for voting. Shareholders will vote on five items at the meeting, starting with the election to the Board from eight nominees. “Apple today anno...

8 January 2009
02:47 GMT

Apple's Stock Is a 'Buy,' Analysts Say

Yahoo! Finance reports that JPMorgan analyst Mark Moskowitz has lowered his sales estimates for the iPhone and the iPod, while raising MacBook forecasts and earnings estimates for the three months ending in December. Most analysts agree that Apple's stock is ripe for the picking, advising clients to do so withou...

24 November 2008
10:54 GMT

iStock 1.5.3 Fixes Bugs, Adds Online Help

iStock, developed by danholt4mac, has reached version 1.5.3. This latest release of the stock and portfolio management tool for Mac OS X fixes a variety of bugs, including non visible quotes from Yahoo! France and help language issues.iStock assists users in keeping track of their favorite stocks and personal portfol...

28 October 2008
11:21 GMT

Apple Execs Get Millions in Bonuses

Regulatory filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission reveal that members of Apple's executive team have been granted more than $122 million in restricted stock-based compensation for their current and future efforts, reflecting the company's growing Mac, iPod and iPhone businesses.Nine grants were...

1 October 2008
02:40 GMT

Cheaper Macs Likely with Apple's Stock Down

On July 21, 2008 Apple's CFO Peter Oppenheimer stated, “We will be delivering state-of-the-art new products that I cannot discuss today that our competitors will not be able to match." It is believed that Apple had foreseen a potential drop in Mac sales, and implicitly its stock, thus the company might be ...

30 September 2008
06:24 GMT

Apple Shares Plummet After Rating Cuts

Apple's shares fell to their lowest level in over a year, to a whopping $105.26 per share, a $22.98 decrease resulted from Mike RBC Capital and Morgan Stanley's cutting their ratings on the company's stock. The two firms are predicting a high probability that consumers no longer be eager to spend cash ...

30 September 2008
04:06 GMT

AMD Shares Slump

This news might not surprise too many people, but it appears that Advanced Micro Devices Inc. has seen its shares fall on Wednesday, after a report released by Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) was made public. According to the report, chips sales are going to grow by only 4.3 percent in 2008, revising down th...

12 June 2008
05:21 GMT

Atari Inc. in New Trouble

There are some game companies that never seem to get a break when they need it, former industry icons that have fallen from their top position and are slowly trying to pick up the pieces and create something new from the glory of old.Atari is such a company. After the arcade success it has enjoyed between 1980 and ro...

27 March 2008
19:06 GMT

GOOG Going Down Like a Plane on Fire

I'm sure everybody interested remembers about the big names at Google saying they are certain that the coming recession will not harm their company and that they have ensured that "everything will be well." This expression is overused in movies, but unlike with the stock market, whenever a character says it, he ...

11 March 2008
04:07 GMT

Google Share Price Drops 8% on Recession Fears

A comScore US industry report, published earlier this week, indicates a decline in the key measure for how the Mountain View-based company is getting paid by advertisers, and that freaked everybody out. Despite Google's repeated statements that any upcoming recession would not affect it, it saw an 8 percent fall...

27 February 2008
06:58 GMT

Yahoo!'s Doing Better and Better after Rejecting Microsoft

Rejecting Microsofts unsolicited bid has put Yahoo! in the best spot it could be in, and at the same time, in a very sticky situation. By having the power to refuse Software giant MS, it showed its stockholders that it is a company that has a future ahead, well crayoned, and that the demeaning offer that the Redmond...

11 February 2008
13:41 GMT

Blow to Microsoft: Yahoo!'s Shares Worth More than Offered

What seemed to be a done deal, with grief over Yahoo!'s passing as a free and independent company, now has turned into a circus. The offer of $31 per share in combined cash and own shares that Microsoft laid on the table is now almost worthless, because Yahoo!'s stock has risen so much that owners would be ...

8 February 2008
06:43 GMT

Cisco to Post $9.8 Billion in Quarterly Profits

Networking giant Cisco Systems announced a 7.2 percent rise in quarterly profit. The company has announced increased revenue especially by selling its telephony gear. The company's figures were just as expected by the Wall Street analysts, and brought Cisco a raise of 1.2 percent in its shares."One of the key is...

7 February 2008
02:51 GMT

Google Going Down

Is it worrying time for Google after seeing its shares drop below 500 bucks for the first time? No, Google is still Google and will be, unless there's a cataclysm that wipes out all mankind. There's a reason for the decline in value, of course, but it's only circumstantial.Following last week's fo...

5 February 2008
07:06 GMT

Dell: Thumbs Up for Taking Their Shares Back Home

Dell's chairman and Chief Executive Officer Michael Dell announced the company is currently elaborating a plan of repurchasing stock shares worth $10 million. This initiative is not a novelty among the company, since the executives already started a program for taking back the company shares, but it was suspende...

5 December 2007
06:33 GMT

Ericsson, Over Its Head in Lawsuits

The list of class action suits for Ericsson started at the beginning of this month and now problems have been piling up for the company. The Swedish telecoms equipment maker now has to face four lawsuits filed against it.All the four lawsuits come from US companies that disapproved with the telecom giant's actio...

22 November 2007
08:42 GMT

The Million Dollar Massage

There's an old saying, "What goes around comes around" and it seems to be catching on big time. Something to do with karma or something in that area, I'm not really sure.But when karma decides to drop by for a visit, it's either: you are going to get very lucky or have your life and moral plummet to ab...

13 November 2007
04:53 GMT

Google Shares Go Down 5.3%

One of the many things I regret and will always regret is that I did not buy shares in Google when the opportunity was presented to me. It would've probably added me to the long list of millionaires that Google has created throughout its short existence. It is very frustrating to watch the shares go up by say 1...

9 November 2007
09:29 GMT

Spam Mastermind at 63 Years!

Three Americans and one French, aging from 26 to 63 have been implicated in a pump-and-dump spam campaign. They have been caught and have pleaded guilty in front of the court while their sentence will be pronounced sometime between the end of November and the beginning of February.Such spam campaigns are not somethi...

7 September 2007
04:11 GMT

Shares Beat Porn in Spam Race!

A recent study done by BitDefender experts shows us that spam messages have seriously outnumbered normal mail activity. I guess you have noticed that as well, I know I sure did - out of 10 messages I got, about 6 or 7 were crap. In the first six months most spam was actually image spam, a fact which only seems natura...

6 September 2007
06:52 GMT

Prime Time Spam

A lot of users have received a huge amount of junk-mail, promoting share acquisition from the Prime Time Group Inc. Apparently, there is no way the company could be associated with the spamming process, and they are looking into this matter themselves, in order to see who has done it.The scheme that the hackers had u...

16 August 2007
15:06 GMT

Wester Digital and Its Numbers

Wester Digital announced the end of a very strong fiscal year. During the last quarter of the 2007 fiscal year, the company shipped no less than 24.9 million hard disk drive units, a serious jump from the 19.2 million units from a year ago. For this year, Western Digital registered $5.5 billion in revenues and an ad...

27 July 2007
04:31 GMT

Intel Loses Share to AMD

Take one look into the future of computing, see where it can go in the next couple of years, or maybe even in a decade or two. It's a hard thing to predict, the future that is, I believe that people that actually have the ability to foresee events that are going to take place in a large enough industry such as t...

26 March 2007
11:18 GMT

ThinkEquity Too Raised Apple Estimates

The group of firms that decide to raise Apple estimates in anticipation of future events widens every day. According to recent news, ThinkEquity has issued a note to clients yesterday expressing their confidence in Apple's power over the market. "With the Leopard launch just around the corner, we have revisited ...

13 March 2007
09:56 GMT


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