After two years of gloating over the iPhone, we finally might have something else to talk about: the Palm Pre, which is to be launched by Sprint on March 15. Both Palm and Sprint have been hit hard by the iPhone, or the lack of a good enough iPhone challenger. There are a lot of [...] .....

Seagate and Sandisk, both storage solutions companies, are having a hard time in this economic environment. Both are leaders in their markets, but need massive restructurings to stay afloat. On January 21, Seagate Technology (NASDAQ: STX), the leader in hard disk drives and storage solutions with......

Yesterday, NVIDIA, the leading graphics chip maker, reported its results for the fourth quarter 2009 and fiscal year 2009. As we saw with Intel and AMD last month, demand has been weak in the chip sector, and NVIDIA been hit hard by it, with a wider-than-expected loss and a 60% slump in sales. Q4....

Three months ago, I highlighted four stocks trading below net cash.  Since that time, two of those companies have been subject to buyout offers, the second coming today as the British company, CSR, offered to buy SiRF Technologies.  Let us see how each has performed since the time of wri...

For those of my generation, Gordon Gekko is the ultimate Wall Street caricature. Oliver Stone's movie Wall Street, in which Gordon is the main character, came out in 1987, just as I was getting out of business school and starting my career in venture capital. The big line in that movie is when Gordo...

Filed under: International markets, Internet, China, Newsletters, Stocks to Buy, Technology "Although I am not a big fan of either technology stocks or Chinese stocks, bear markets do create opportunities -- such as Sohu.com. (NASDAQ: SOHU), says Jack Adamo. In his Jack Adamo's Insiders Plus newslet...

One of the things I've been saying recently on this blog is that the Dow is full of tired companies and tired stocks. I think the Nasdaq is much more representative of the current american economy than the Dow. And when I came across this chart on Andrew Finkle's blog this morning it got me thinking...

One of the best posts I read this week was from Fortune's Andy Serwer. In it, he noted: At the end of 1999 the Dow was around 11,400. Today the Dow is at 8,400, which means the index has fallen some 26%, a decline of almost 3% per year. With just one year left in this decade - even if 2009 is a humd...

You'd have thought we would learn our lesson with stock options. Back in the post-bubble era, I spent a lot of time on boards talking about granting new options to employees who are underwater. When the value of a company goes up too fast, and then comes back to reality (or overshoots it which is a ...

Filed under: Newsletters, Automatic Data Proc (ADP), Stocks to Buy "As far as safety goes, Automatic Data Processing (NYSE: ADP) is hard to beat," says Gregory Dorsey in Leeb's Income Performance Report. Here's the advisor's review. "In our search for stocks that can not only grow in good times, but...