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All Recent Tags I know that, technically speaking, airline stocks aren't technology stocks (although I can't think of a more amazing technology that one which enables a 10-ton tube of metal to become airborne in New York and drop you safely in Chicago two hours later) but hear me out.
This could be a good play...
Read More | May 28th, 2008
Want to take a second look at a former high-flying tech stock?
How about CA, the information technology giant, whose slow-and-steady growth is occurring mostly under the radar of most Wall Street observers?
But that might not last too long, especially as CA’s most recent quarterly financials,...
Read More | May 27th, 2008
Taxes, inflation, oil prices – even the price of corn are dominating the economic headlines these days. But should they overshadow the story of the (briefly resurgent) U.S. dollar?
I don't think so - and I don't think anyone in the tech sector should sell the dollar story short, either. The...
Read More | May 22nd, 2008
Is the Tel-Com industry going the way of the dinosaur? If worldwide trends in 2008 are any indication, that very well could be the case.
Speaking of case, the tech industry research and analytical firm Heavy Reading is on it. In a study released this week entitled “Reinventing the Telco: A Heavy...
Read More | May 20th, 2008 | Comments: 1 | Last Comment: May 21st, 2008
An old chestnut with a damaged brand is back in the news and, for once, that’s in a good way.
I’m talking about Tyco Electronics, which suffered a spate of bad press and reduced investor interest after former CEO Denis Kozlowski pleaded guilty to grand larceny in 2005.
But the company is on...
Read More | May 16th, 2008
I've been following the career arch of corporate raider Carl Icahn for years. The billionaire investor specializes in buying up huge chunks of stocks of volatile companies, then going after the company's board of directors to get the deals he wants.
It's worked pretty well with Icahn's investments...
Read More | May 14th, 2008
A friend of mine who works for a medical software company has a problem, and one that he shares with much of America these days - it's costing him $75 per week for enough gasoline to commute to work.
Of course, the rising price of gasoline just doesn't impact people who work at technology...
Read More | May 9th, 2008
Zacks.com is a good place to go for some worthwhile data and solid insight in the technology stock sector. I peruse it at least once a month or more and have dug up some real winners as a result. The firm says its "strong buy" stock selections have generated annual average returns of 31% since...
Read More | May 8th, 2008
Is the Yahoo deal done yet? The stock market thinks so, slicing Yahoo’s financial value by 15% in the last two trading sessions. If the deal were still alive, then the stock would be moving the other way around. Yahoo’s chief Jerry Yang says the $37-per-share demand wasn’t etched in stone but...
Read More | May 6th, 2008
Okay, let the finger-pointing begin. Should Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer take the heat for the proposed Microsoft-Yahoo merger falling apart? After all, didn't he say that Microsoft wouldn't raise its $45.7 billion bid for Yahoo, then weeks later, say he'd raise the bid, from $31 per share to $33...
Read More | May 5th, 2008
