Chart courtesy of www.stockcharts.com ( click to enlarge ) CIEN - Fiber-optic telecommunications equipment maker Ciena Corp. reported its first-quarter results today. The company posted a loss of $24.5 million for its first quarter on a steep drop in sales and hefty charges related to its restructur...

Filed under: Management, Google (GOOG), Microsoft (MSFT), Yahoo! (YHOO), Options Carol Bartz, the new CEO of Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO), has no qualms about executive transparency. During an appearance Tuesday at the Morgan Stanley Tech Conference in San Francisco, Bartz confessed that she doesn't u...

Filed under: Products and services, Microsoft (MSFT), Marketing and advertising, CBS Corp 'B' (CBS) With all the gloom in the global economy, I got to wondering whether there is anything else going on in the world of business. I'm looking for growth because I think that's what will ultimately bring ...

This is getting tedious! We were bearish going into the week but not this bearish. It is unusual though that we have a weekly wrap-up with nothing but negative plays as we did last week but there was nothing very positive in the outlook after the action of the week of the 16th through the 20th, pict...

Filed under: Earnings reports, Microsoft (MSFT), Amazon.com (AMZN), General Motors (GM), Sirius Satellite Radio (SIRI), Trump Entertainment Resorts (TRMP), Verizon Communications (VZ), Teva Pharm Indus ADR (TEVA) U.S. stock markets were set to plunge at the open Tuesday morning as three issues weigh...

Filed under: Microsoft (MSFT), Apple Inc (AAPL) So, I bought a stock this past week. Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT). I was pretty happy about the purchase. Well, strike that. I was sort of happy about the purchase. I don't have to tell you why I hastily added that qualifier. The current recession, quite f...

Filed under: Microsoft (MSFT), Sony Corp ADR (SNE), Electronic Arts (ERTS), Activision Inc (ATVI) Okay, video-game sales stats are out for the month of January. Please tell me there are some exciting changes in the ranking in terms of which gaming console dominated the charts in the U.S. Please tell...

A look at the companies which announced layoffs in December and January demonstrates that almost no industry is immune from job losses due to this contracting economy. Tech companies like Microsoft (MSFT) fired people.  So did many retail operations like Macy’s (M).Consolidation efforts led by Pf...

Reading through Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer’s annual state-of-the-company memo, with its efficiency improvements, cost reductions and cutbacks in worker benefits, which are already prompting complaints from Microsoft (MSFT) employees, it’s hard not to recall the company’s now-infam...

Filed under: After the bell, Microsoft (MSFT), Apple Inc (AAPL), eBay (EBAY), Market matters, Citigroup Inc. (C), Southwest Airlines (LUV) Today was just another one of those days that shows you why it is hard to have any solid conviction right now. The jobs numbers matched the highest report of new...