http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/blog192697.html http://www.daniweb.com/forums/dani-images/misc/dani/logo.gif http://www.daniweb.com http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry4275.html The Street is still buzzing about Apple and its amazing quarterly performance numbers, boosted by solid iPod and iPhone sales, especially in the month of March. Apple’s stock is selling at $125 per share right now, but there is no shortage of analysts who believe that stock price is a steal, and that Apple could see its stock price reach to $180-per-share. That’s the take from Gene Munster, technology analyst at Piper Jaffray: He has set a target price of $180 per share for Apple, and explains why in a note to investors this week: “We remains buyers of AAPL; March quarter results... Internet Marketing Thu, 23 Apr 2009 16:11:19 CDT Brian.oco http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry4275.html http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry4269.html It’s no secret that one big key to unlocking the business and consumer technology spending lockbox is easier credit from banks and other lenders. On the surface, the better-than-expected earnings news from big banks like Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan Chase gave a much-needed boost to that theory. If the big banks are claiming huge quarterly profits, the thinking goes, then credit should begin easing, borrowers can start getting money again, and tech companies will see a good rebound in sales. That would not only boost tech stocks and provide more cash for research and... Internet Marketing Wed, 22 Apr 2009 11:02:59 CDT Brian.oco http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry4269.html http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry4264.html Will the tech sector lead an economic turnaround? Forbes.com thinks so. This week, Peter C. Beller writes that Monday’s IBM revenues numbers and the fallout from the proposed Oracle and Sun Microsystems could lay the groundwork for an economic rebound. I’ll get to the IBM numbers in a moment, but Beller thinks that, even though IBM’s numbers clocked in lower than analysts had expected, they show enough to indicate that technology spending may just soon be on the upswing. “Those sentiments support claims from other tech companies that a turnaround, for technology spending at least,... Internet Marketing Tue, 21 Apr 2009 09:54:02 CDT Brian.oco http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry4264.html http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry4248.html I want to get to GameStop and the overall video game market, which finally seems to be losing steam. But tech is going nowhere until we straighten the banking mess out and this week’s earnings report from perhaps the biggest bank out there - Citi – is being falsely touted as a harbinger of a big bank rebound. For the first quarter of 2009, Citi claimed a first-quarter profit of $1.6 billion – which, on the surface, would appear to be good news. But if you include the dividends on the preferred shares that Citi paid the government, it actually recorded a loss of $966 million. But it... Internet Marketing Fri, 17 Apr 2009 15:21:59 CDT Brian.oco http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry4248.html http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry4240.html So much for a “glimmer of hope”. Wall Street is looking more skeptically at claims from Washington that the economy is getting better. The stock market is down about 45 points in late morning trading, after more layoffs were announced by U.S. companies (Yahoo (YHOO) being one of them – see below). Also hurting stocks was a lousy US. Labor Department report showing consumer prices unexpectedly declined 0.1 percent last month. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 34.41 points, to 7,885.77 minutes after the market opened. Investors were also mulling over earnings news from Intel... Internet Marketing Wed, 15 Apr 2009 12:51:05 CDT Brian.oco http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry4240.html http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry4235.html Google stock was up yesterday, down this morning and everyone has an opinion for the yo-yo effect currently frustrating Google investors. At the top of the list of issues is actually a projected issue – Google’s first quarter earnings which come out on Thursday. The sentiment is a downward one on Google earnings, with the stagnant economy finally catching up to Google and its decade of fairly unbelievable profit-taking. There have been a lot of firsts for the Internet search giant this year. Its first round of layoffs occurred in March, with 340 heads on the proverbial chopping block.... Internet Marketing Tue, 14 Apr 2009 14:53:44 CDT Brian.oco http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry4235.html http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry4232.html President Obama – who only weeks ago warned of the greatest financial meltdown since the Great Depression if his $1.1 trillion stimulus package wasn’t passed by Congress - now says that he sees a “glimmer of hope” that the financial trauma is ending and that things could be stabilizing. Call me a cynic – and many have – but how do we go from financial meltdown to financial “glimmers” in a period of seven weeks? Especially since most of the money in the President’s stimulus plan isn’t supposed to kick in until 2010? It smells funny to me. Get elected on the heels of next... Internet Marketing Mon, 13 Apr 2009 18:26:36 CDT Brian.oco http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry4232.html http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry4222.html If you’re holding shares in Saleforce.com (StockQuote: CRM) it might be time to sell. So says Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Nemeroff. The analyst slashed his rating on Salesforce.com from “hold” to “sell” and says that the online sales giant’s current stock price of $36 is about $10 higher than his target stock price of $27. Again, it’s all about the lousy economy, especially for Salesforce’s smaller customers. Such firms, says Nemeroff, “could continue to be pressured by negative economic headwinds and that subscriber attrition at existing larger customers could... Internet Marketing Thu, 09 Apr 2009 11:44:11 CDT Brian.oco http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry4222.html http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry4218.html Is it time to get back into the market? I don’t think so – if it walks like a sucker’s market, talks like a sucker’s market, and squawks like a sucker’s market, it’s a sucker’s market. Tech Ticker’s Aaron Task agrees. He says today that the U.S. still haven't dealt with the bank problem; Q1 earnings are going to be horrific; and investors are still too positive--salivating at the thought of calling the bottom and jumping back in. But is he engaging in hyperbole when he says that when this bear market finally bottoms, only whack-jobs will be interested in buying stocks ever... Internet Marketing Wed, 08 Apr 2009 15:45:48 CDT Brian.oco http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry4218.html http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry4214.html The Nasdaq is down 43 points this morning, with Google (down $12) and RIMM (down $3) leading the charge down the hill, so to speak. I think we’re seeing the first symptoms of anther false bottom, which sounds incredible after hearing from so many experts on Wall Street that the end of the recession/depression is near. Not so, I’m afraid. George Soros, who smugly announced recently that he was “having a pretty good financial crisis”, threw more water on Wall Street’s little bonfire of late, saying that the U.S. dollar is nearing its final death throes and any recovery we might have... Internet Marketing Tue, 07 Apr 2009 14:07:54 CDT Brian.oco http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry4214.html http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry4213.html It didn’t take long for CA to pay the price for the lower earnings outlook that popped up among Wall Street analysts last week. The stock fell 3% today after Jefferies analyst Katherine Egbert downgraded CA to “hold” from “buy”, and lowered her target price for the computer giant’s stock to $18 from $20. Egbert was particularly down on the company’s financial picture, saying she anticipated lower earnings and revenue for the 4th quarter. You can’t blame her. CA hasn’t been projecting a rosy image of late. Last week CA’s CEO came out and said that it would eliminate... 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