Before Apple’s shareholder meeting began today in Cupertino, Calif., members of the press were upset about it being more of a “prevent” than an event. Apple barred the press from live-blogging or even carrying laptops or smartphones into the meeting—the gag rule didn’t ...

Fortune's Apple 2.0 has posted what allegedly happened in today's Apple shareholder meeting—where the press wasn't allowed to have any device to liveblog the event—including the best......

The following is a guest post written by Mike McDonald. McDonald owns 118,000 shares of Microsoft, bought in 2000 at an average price of $36 share (adjusted for splits and dividend payouts). He has since seen the company grow its revenue and profits while his equity has been halved. He points out th...

Even though I know that diamonds are common and that the value of diamonds is based on false-scarcity and multi-billion-dollar global marketing campaigns, I still want to buy my future wife a big-ass Tiffany solitaire.  However, diamonds are losing value like a lead brick, so even the biggest profi...

You know times are more than tough when an industry's leader is caught like a roach on its back.  That is the position that Seagate Technology (NYSE: STX) finds itself in at the onset of 2009.  The implications will not stop with Seagate, as consumer trends challenge the traditional storag...

If you are one of those who cannot stand Indian IT-outsourcing firms, you probably just got another feather in your cap. India's Satyam Computer Services Ltd. (NYSE: SAY) is turning out to be a house of cards.  Shares closed at $9.35 yesterday after many recent troubles, and that was already do...

One of the hardest accounting frauds to spot is big bath accounting. When a company is doing really bad and has no chance of meeting earning expectations, unscrupulous management would begin writing-off every expense and asset they could imagine. As a result, future expenses are reduced significantl...

Here’s the deal, we charge more than any other club in the world to see a football match, fact. We have won nothing for 3 seasons, fact. By the end of next season we could be debt free, fact. Will the fans be happy? No. Will more people sell their shares, yes. Usmanov already has 149 more than...

What does Carl Icahn, the billionaire activist shareholder who waged war on Yahoo and now sits on its board, really think? “…I really think current boards and managements are killing the country,” he said in an interview published Friday in The Wall Street Journal’s Opinion J...

sigh. half the people in your department just got pink-slipped, your 401(k) is worth shit, and now, just when you thought things couldn’t get any worse…they’re coming for your muffin, too. all in the name of shareholder value! (leaked by sayf in greenwich, connecticut.) related: le...