Filed under: Industry Seagate Technology (NYSE: STX) and Western Digital Corp. (NYSE: WDC) are the two top dogs in the hard drive business. While Seagate's merger with competitor Maxtor years ago should have helped quash Western Digital further, the latter has stayed strong and today has a share pri...

Filed under: Wal-Mart (WMT), Columns Welcome to the 99th installment of The Wal-Mart Weekly, a column dedicated to bringing you insight, wit, facts, results, opinions, and just a bit of everything else when it comes to a very hot topic these days: Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE: WMT) has had ...

With Sirius XM Radio, Inc. (NASDAQ: SIRI) shares hovering around 13 cents mid-morning, the pioneering and sole satellite radio company is probably savoring its investment this week by John Malone's Liberty Media Corp. (NYSE: LINTA). Instead of filing for bankruptcy protection or possibly folding alt...

Filed under: Bad news, Yahoo! (YHOO), Employees Not only is new Yahoo!, Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) CEO Carol Bartz considering thousands of layoffs from her new corner office, she may be having a hand in freezing wages at the company in 2009. Yahoo! is making a move that's all too common in recent months a...

Filed under: Bad news, Circuit City Stores (CC) Circuit City Stores, Inc. (NYSE: CC) may start liquidating some if its assets this week, the retailer indicated a few days ago. If Circuit City cannot find someone to help, its existing bankruptcy may turn into a complete obliteration of the entire com...

Filed under: Industry, Microsoft (MSFT), Sony Corp ADR (SNE) Although Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) and Sony Corporation (NYSE: SNE) sell fine gaming consoles, both companies still are far behind competitor Nintendo Co., Ltd (OTC: NTDOY). The small white box known as the Nintendo Wii has outs...

Filed under: Wal-Mart (WMT), Black Friday, Kohl's Corp (KSS) While Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE: WMT) keeps racking up sales as the king of retail in a depression, competitors certainly don't want to lose out on holiday sales. In fact, with such a bleak holiday shopping season predicted by multiple m...

Filed under: Earnings reports, Citigroup Inc. (C) Citigroup Inc. (NYSE: C), the beleaguered financial giant with a completely ineffective CEO at the helm, will report quarterly earnings (or losses) tomorrow. Most likely, we will see yet another company taking steep losses due to bets on mortgage-bac...

Filed under: Products and services, Launches, Apple Inc (AAPL), AT and T (T) After having monitored blogs and news of the iPhone 3G launch all morning and afternoon, the general feeling I get is that the launch of the iPhone 3G could be considered nothing less than a disaster. Blame Apple Inc. (NASD...

Filed under: Products and services, Consumer experience, Family Dollar Stores (FDO) Family Dollar Stores, Inc. (NYSE: FDO), along with the other dollar stores, may begin to see many more non-traditional customers who are aching to save every penny in the face of increasing energy and food costs. The...