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(IBM) IBM Set to Acquire Software Developer Worklight
IBM Corp. (IBM) recently announced that it is set to acquire mobile application and infrastructure software developer Worklight. The financial terms of the deal remained undisclosed but it is expected that the deal will close by the first quarter of 2012. New York-based Worklight...
2Feb2012 | vitalstocks | 0 comments | Continued(MSFT) Semiconductor Stock Outlook – February 2012 – Industry Outlook
The Semiconductor Industry serves as a driver, enabler and indicator of technological progress. Developments in the industry determine the way we work, transport ourselves, communicate, entertain ourselves and respond to our environment. The PCs we work on, the cars we drive,...
2Feb2012 | vitalstocks | 0 comments | Continued(XLE) Stock Market News for January 24, 2012 – Market News
Markets hovered around break-even levels on Monday as encouragement from the energy sector balanced apprehensions over Greece’s debt negotiations. With no major economic data or earnings results from any bellwether coming to forefront, benchmarks took a pause a day ahead of...
24Jan2012 | vitalstocks | 0 comments | Continued(BAC) Stock Market News for January 23, 2012 – Market News
Strong corporate results helped lift the Dow higher to a six month high, while the S&P 500 registered frugal gains. Meanwhile, an earnings miss by Google weighed down the Nasdaq Composite Index. Nonetheless, the markets managed to end another week with gains and each benchmarks...
23Jan2012 | vitalstocks | 0 comments | Continued(MSFT) Microsoft Looks Bright in 2012
Microsoft Corporation’s (MSFT) second quarter results were a couple of cents higher than the Zacks Consensus Estimate. The last month has seen 10 analysts lowering estimates for the quarter, which took the Zacks Consensus down a penny. Therefore, without the revisions, Microsoft...
21Jan2012 | vitalstocks | 0 comments | Continued(GOOG) Google Reports Rare Earnings Miss
Google Inc’s (GOOG) fourth-quarter earnings of $8.22 missed the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $9.06, with revenues missing estimates by 9.7%. Shares were down 9.02% in after-hours trading. Despite strong revenue growth across most geographies and stabilizing in Western Europe...
20Jan2012 | vitalstocks | 0 comments | Continued(INTC) Intel Tops Expectations – Guides In Line
Intel Corp (INTC) reported fourth quarter earnings of 67 cents per share that beat the Zacks Consensus Estimate by 6 cents. The surprise was driven by strength in the server segment, a richer mix of business, lower-than-expected taxes and helped by the fact that estimates dropped...
20Jan2012 | vitalstocks | 0 comments | Continued(GOOG) January 20: Markets to Remain Calm – Economic Highlights
With the economic calendar relatively on the thin side, stocks will remain focused on another busy day of earnings reports. Google’s (GOOG) earnings miss potentially raises doubts about the tech sector’s earnings outlook, but the issue appears to be mostly company specific....
20Jan2012 | vitalstocks | 0 comments | Continued(GOOG) Sampling the Earnings Smorgasbord
With the economic calendar relatively on the thin side, stocks will remain focused on another busy day of earnings reports. Google’s (GOOG) earnings miss potentially raises doubts about the tech sector’s earnings outlook, but the issue appears to be mostly company specific....
20Jan2012 | vitalstocks | 0 comments | Continued(IBM) International Business Machines 2011 Fourth Quarter Earnings Preview
International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) is all set to report its fourth quarter and full year 2011 results on January 19, 2012, after the market closes. We expect IBM to report modest results due to sluggish IT spending partially offset by robust growth from its key growth...
18Jan2012 | vitalstocks | 0 comments | Continued(AAPL) Motorola Mobility Holdings Lawsuit Ruling Goes Against Apple
Apple Inc. (AAPL) recently received an adverse ruling in a patent suit against Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. (MMI) from the International Trade Commission (ITC). An ITC judge set aside Apple’s allegation that Motorola Mobility had violated three of its patents. This is Apple’s...
16Jan2012 | vitalstocks | 0 comments | Continued(IBM) IBM to Focus on Analytics
Analytics has emerged as the new focal point for IBM Corp. (IBM) in 2012.The company looks set to drive significant growth in this fast-growing sector, according to CEO Virginia Rometty. The strong growth of analytics can be attributed to the increasing complexity enterprises...
14Jan2012 | vitalstocks | 0 comments | Continued(DELL) DELL to Enhance Consumer Experience
Dell Inc. (DELL) has started the new year with a new offering — Ultrabook — the thinnest and most powerful iteration of laptops. Earlier this week, Dell introduced the XPS 13 laptop. The ultra portable gadget is expected to enhance user experience with Intel Inc.’s...
14Jan2012 | vitalstocks | 0 comments | Continued(T) AT&T Riding High on LTE Devices
The second-largest U.S. mobile service provider AT&T Inc. (T) plans to roll out seven new smartphones and a tablet based on the 4G LTE network early in the year. These devices will offer mobile broadband speeds up to 10 times faster than 3G. The LTE smartphone portfolio includes...
13Jan2012 | vitalstocks | 0 comments | Continued(ATVI) Gloomy Year for Video Games
Robust holiday sales were always expected to lift domestic video game sales, but it could only improve performance on a sequential basis. U.S. video game sales were up 36% sequentially in the month of December, as new versions of some famous franchises and positive consumer spending...
13Jan2012 | vitalstocks | 0 comments | Continued(DUK) 2012 Predictions for Income Investors
by Marc Lichtenfeld, Investment U Senior Analyst Wednesday, December 28, 2011: Issue #1674 Last week, I reviewed my brilliant (and a few, let’s call them sub-brilliant) market calls for 2011. As the year winds down, here are my thoughts for what lies ahead in 2012 for income...
9Jan2012 | InvestmentU | 0 comments | Continued(IBM) IBM Further Spreads Wings in Cloud
IBM Corp (IBM) recently announced that it has agreed to acquire Green Hat, a cloud-based software testing provider. This would mark IBM’s first acquisition in 2012. The to-be-acquired company will be integrated into IBM’s Rational Software business, which enables software...
9Jan2012 | vitalstocks | 0 comments | Continued(ADP) Stock Market News for January 6, 2012 – Market News
A slew of better than expected economic reports helped the indices to close flat, after fresh eurozone worries weighed on the markets which opened lower. For the very first time this year, the Dow closed in the red, while the Nasdaq and the S&P 500 index registered small...
6Jan2012 | vitalstocks | 0 comments | Continued(CHKP) Check Point Software Technologies Initiated at Neutral
We are initiating coverage on Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (CHKP) with a Neutral recommendation and a target price of $56.00. Tel Aviv, Israel-based Check Point was founded in 1993 and entered the information technology (IT) security market with its breakthrough product,...
3Jan2012 | vitalstocks | 0 comments | Continued(RNOW) Oracle’s RightNow Technologies Buy Approved
At a recent special meeting conducted at RightNow Technologies, Inc. (RNOW), its shareholders finally gave their whole-hearted consent for the company’s merger with Oracle Corporation (ORCL). Almost 99.8% of the shares voted in favor of the acquisition agreement represented...
29Dec2011 | vitalstocks | 0 comments | Continued(YHOO) Yahoo Revisits Sale of Asian Assets
Yahoo Inc. (YHOO) is revisiting a proposed deal to reduce its 40% stake in Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and sell its 35% ownership position in Yahoo Japan. The proposal values Yahoo’s 40% stake in Alibaba at about $12 billion and its 35% stake in Yahoo...
27Dec2011 | vitalstocks | 0 comments | Continued(AKAM) Akamai Technologies Buys Competitor Cotendo
Confirming earlier rumors, Akamai Technologies Inc. (AKAM) recently announced that it is buying competitor Cotendo for $268.0 million in cash. The deal is expected to close in the first half of 2012. Shares jumped 18.6% to close at $31.63 following the news. Cotendo specializes...
26Dec2011 | vitalstocks | 0 comments | Continued(XLF) Stock Market News for December 23, 2011 – Market News
Investors received a pre-Christmas gift in the form of encouraging economic data, which led the benchmarks higher on Thursday. The Dow and S&P 500 registered their third-straight finish in the green, but trading volumes continued to be on the low side. The Dow Jones Industrial...
23Dec2011 | vitalstocks | 0 comments | Continued(RHT) Red Hat Beats The Street by a Penny
Red Hat Inc. (RHT) reported third quarter 2012 earnings of 20 cents per share, which beat the Zacks Consensus Estimate by a penny. Earnings per share (EPS) (including stock-based compensation expenses but excluding amortization) increased 37.4% from 15 cents reported in the year-earlier...
20Dec2011 | vitalstocks | 0 comments | Continued(ATVI) Video Games Out of Summer Slump
Buoyed by the pre-holiday season rush and strong sales performance of the newly released games, the video games industry recorded growth in the month of November 2011. According to the NPD Group, the video games industry logged revenues of $2.93 billion in November, significantly...
15Dec2011 | vitalstocks | 0 comments | Continued(AAPL) Who Is the Smartest of Them All?
With the whole world increasingly going mobile, top phone makers such as Samsung, LG, Motorola, Apple (AAPL) and Research In Motion (RIMM) are scrambling to bring smarter devices to the market. In fact, phone makers are touting screen size, resolution, virtual or real QWERTY...
9Dec2011 | vitalstocks | 0 comments | Continued(AAPL) Get a Piece of the Next Nuclear Energy Boom
by Carl Delfeld, Investment U Senior Analyst Thursday, December 8, 2011: Issue #1660 “My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.” - Charles Franklin Kettering There’s a lot of pessimism out there amongst investors as they worry about...
9Dec2011 | InvestmentU | 0 comments | Continued(GOOG) Google Takes on Amazon With Same-Day Shipping Service
by Jeannette Di Louie, Investment U Research Monday, December 5, 2011 I’ve said for a while now that Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) wants to take over the world. First, it debuted the search engine, which changed how we use the internet so significantly that English dictionaries everywhere...
5Dec2011 | InvestmentU | 0 comments | Continued(T) The Going May Get Tough in Wireless
We believe that the wireless majors, AT&T (T) and Verizon Communications (VZ) may be lulled by the proverbial calm before the possible storm. While these giants remain eminently solid, yet their outlook is opaque. Also, issues such as huge capital costs, uncertain returns...
5Dec2011 | vitalstocks | 0 comments | Continued(DELL) Dell to Overshadow Hewlett-Packard Servers
Tech major Dell Inc. (DELL) is looking to grow its share of the server market, something that could hurt Hewlett-Packard Co. (HPQ) in the longer term. Dell missed its chance of becoming the leading PC shipment vendor after H-P’s PC segment spin-off was called off by current...
28Nov2011 | vitalstocks | 0 comments | Continued