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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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”...

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...

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,...

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...

Apple is reportedly coming out with a new iPhone that will be so popular to consumers that it will drive the price of Apple’s stock up to over $140 per share.

That’s the view of Barclays Capital...

Cisco isn’t putting the fear of God into Hewlett-Packard over its new entry into the blade server market. But even so, Cisco is seeing a nice run-up in its stock over the last three weeks - from...

My first job on Wall Street was on the equity options floor of the Philadelphia Stock Exchange, running trades for Bear Stearns’ clients, mostly market maker and floor brokers trading on their own...

I’m back from a timely and tropical Florida break, and now I’m tanned, rested and ready to talk tech stocks.

Issue #1 is Research in Motion, a stock on the upswing (at $44 per share) on news that...

On January 9, Google’s stock was at a historic low – at $290 per share – it spiked upward to $380 per share in mid-February before settling in at its current state at $340.

Now, that’s a lot of...

Now that the news is out on IBM’s proposed $6.5 billion purchase of Sun Microsystems, analysts are in a lather over why Big Blue wants to make the deal.

The Wall Street Journal originally broke...

When you rush legislation through Washington, like Congress did with the two financial sector bailout bills, you lose the right to complain when the outcome blows up in your face

That means you...

One more note on the solar energy piece I wrote about yesterday.

Evidently, the bad news on solar energy has made its way across the country. According to Barclays Capital analyst Vishal Shah...

CNBC has a list of big name U.S. companies that could slide into default – meaning they won’t be able to meet their financial obligations, including paying their employees.

There are a few...

There’s a lot of talk about ‘dead cat” bounces in the financial markets these days.

Nobody really knows if the stock market has hit bottom, but last week’s rebound continues into Monday, after...

Tech employees are starting to take matters into their own hands, with some apparently not above kidnapping.

Our story begins in southwestern France, at a soon-to-be-closed Sony plant where...

The stock market is up about 10 points, trying to find some buoyancy after yesterday’s big 400-point gain.

Traders credit two events for the quick market turnaround: Citi coming out and saying it ...

Rumors are rampant over a proposed Verizon-Nokia deal on a 4G mobile device, as equity options traders snapped up calls (options to buy a given stock at lower prices) in anticipation of a big run-up...

When Warren Buffett talks, Wall Street – and Main Street – listen.

And now he’s talking about the future of the U.S. economy.

In a wide-ranging, three-hour interview on CNBC yesterday, Buffett...

Charlie Payne, sounding a lot like Revolutionary War pamphleteer Thomas Paine, says that we're in the 2009 version of “these are the times that try men’s souls”.

Of course, the historical Paine...

Two pieces of dispiriting information on the economy hit the big wire services today:

The Associated Press -- The economy contracted at a staggering 6.2 percent pace at the end of 2008, the worst...

Rumors were rampant all over Wall Street that Barack Obama trotted Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke out yesterday to calm the markets by declaring the recession could be over by the last half of...

Is there hope for stocks in 2009?

At all?

A University of Iowa business professor things so, and he claims he has the data to prove it.

It’s all about upside potential – and the fact that...

Are small company software stocks – especially medical technology companies -- a safe, even profitable, haven for investors these days? Could be – especially if you’re looking to forego higher-risk...

Just one follow-up note (as promised) on the Sirius XM situation.

Just days before Sirius XM purportedly was going to default on its next loan payment, Direct TV came through with a $534 bridge...

A new normal?

That’s what one financial services guru says America consumers can expect now that the housing market has collapsed and people are losing their jobs in droves.

“The worst is yet...

The bearish global economic environment just keeps adding pressure to technology stocks.

As gross domestic product (GDP) drops in bourses around the globe, tech traders are nervous, at least for...

Earlier in the year I clipped out a few expert predictions on technology stocks for 2009.

From time to time, I’ll check in and see how those stocks are doing. It’s only six weeks into the new...

Some slivers of sunshine amidst the economic clouds today.

First, retail sales are up for the first time in six months, perhaps signaling that consumers aren’t as bearish on the economy as...

I’m a big fan of satellite radio. I have XM Radio in my car, and right now, at my desk as I’m writing these words, I’m listening to Frank Caliendo on XM's Laugh USA on channel 151.

So I was very...

Boy. What does a tech outfit have to do to get some love on Wall Street?

Intel announces a $7 billion effort to upgrade a pair of chip manufacturing centers in the U.S. and Intel’s stock price...

I really don’t write enough about the biopharmaceutical market, which in tough economic times, can be a good defensive play relative to the rest of the market – even when compared to uniform...

Beacon Research is out with its monthly, and highly useful take on technology stocks, focusing on Google and Yahoo, among others.

In its “Traders Alert” report, Beacon says that a new alliance...

The Nasdaq was able to shake off the lousy jobs number today, and is up 31 points in mid-day trading. Apple, Dell, and Verizon are also way up – at around 3% each – as the market waits for Washington...