Caterpillar: Tackling the Competition and Beating Expectations
The theme of Caterpillar’s (NYSE:CAT) fourth-quarter is one of recovery and of growing strength. Chair Chief Executive Officer Doug Oberhelman told shareholders in the quarterly earnings press release...
View ArticleHere’s Another Way Amazon Refuses to Be Undersold
Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/aurelijus/ Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) will not be undersold. That’s the beauty of this company and how it has taken market share from competitors from everything from...
View ArticlePandora Investors Worry About Future After Earnings
“2013 marked notable growth from user metrics to financial achievements,” Pandora (NYSE:P) CEO Brian McAndrews said in the company’s fourth-quarter and full-year earnings press release. “We remain...
View ArticleAnalyst: Here’s Apple’s ‘Next Big Thing’
Smartphone growth is slowing, and that is a problem for Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL). In the company’s first fiscal quarter, iPhone sales hit a record: The 51 million phones sold during the period were the...
View ArticleA Fracturing Industry Is Forcing Merck to Make Touch Choices
Merck (NYSE:MRK), the second-largest drugmaker in the United States after Pfizer (NYSE:PFE), is looking to narrow its focus and gain scale in the increasingly fragmented consumer and healthcare...
View ArticleWhich Drugmaker Will Snap Up Merck’s Consumer Health Unit?
Source: Thinkstock Merck (NYSE:MRK), the second largest drugmaker in the United States after Pfizer (NYSE:PFE), is looking to narrow its focus and gain scale in the increasingly fragmented consumer...
View ArticleFacebook Reigns as King of Social e-Commerce — for Now
Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ:FB) drives the most purchases of any social network, according to an infographic from Shopify this spring, which analyzed data related to social e-commerce from 10 social...
View ArticleSamsung Tablets Are Growing in Web Usage and Market Share
Source: Getty Images The world’s top smartphone manufacturer is also gaining serious traction in the Android (NASDAQ:GOOG)(NASDAQ:GOOGL) tablet market, especially in the United States and Canada,...
View Article10 Companies You Didn’t Know Had Near-Monopolies
Source: iStock The Sherman Anti-Trust Act goes back to 1890, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t still companies out there with way too much power and market share. The law was intended to prohibit...
View ArticleCaterpillar: Tackling the Competition and Beating Expectations
The theme of Caterpillar’s (NYSE:CAT) fourth-quarter is one of recovery and of growing strength. Chair Chief Executive Officer Doug Oberhelman told shareholders in the quarterly earnings press release...
View ArticleHere’s Another Way Amazon Refuses to Be Undersold
Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/aurelijus/ Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) will not be undersold. That’s the beauty of this company and how it has taken market share from competitors from everything from...
View ArticlePandora Investors Worry About Future After Earnings
“2013 marked notable growth from user metrics to financial achievements,” Pandora (NYSE:P) CEO Brian McAndrews said in the company’s fourth-quarter and full-year earnings press release. “We remain...
View ArticleAnalyst: Here’s Apple’s ‘Next Big Thing’
Smartphone growth is slowing, and that is a problem for Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL). In the company’s first fiscal quarter, iPhone sales hit a record: The 51 million phones sold during the period were the...
View ArticleA Fracturing Industry Is Forcing Merck to Make Touch Choices
Merck (NYSE:MRK), the second-largest drugmaker in the United States after Pfizer (NYSE:PFE), is looking to narrow its focus and gain scale in the increasingly fragmented consumer and healthcare...
View ArticleWhich Drugmaker Will Snap Up Merck’s Consumer Health Unit?
Source: Thinkstock Merck (NYSE:MRK), the second largest drugmaker in the United States after Pfizer (NYSE:PFE), is looking to narrow its focus and gain scale in the increasingly fragmented consumer...
View ArticleFacebook Reigns as King of Social e-Commerce — for Now
Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ:FB) drives the most purchases of any social network, according to an infographic from Shopify this spring, which analyzed data related to social e-commerce from 10 social...
View ArticleSamsung Tablets Are Growing in Web Usage and Market Share
Source: Getty Images The world’s top smartphone manufacturer is also gaining serious traction in the Android (NASDAQ:GOOG)(NASDAQ:GOOGL) tablet market, especially in the United States and Canada,...
View ArticleApple vs. Google: More Android Users, But More iOS Use
Source: Thinkstock Do you use your iPhone more than your friend uses his Samsung (SSNLF.PK) Galaxy? If you’re talking about how much you browse the Web on your smartphone, it turns out that you...
View Article10 Companies You Didn’t Know Had Near-Monopolies
Source: iStock The Sherman Anti-Trust Act goes back to 1890, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t still companies out there with way too much power and market share. The law was intended to prohibit...
View ArticleBattery Problems on Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner Are Back
Apparently, Boeing (NYSE:BA) has not solved the problems that plagued the Dreamliner 787’s lithium-ion battery earlier this year. During a Friday flight from Helsinki to Tokyo, one of Japan Airlines...
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