Computer Hardware

Tech Crunch has a report out that Samsung has decided since it can not beat Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) at the tablet game, it might as well give them away for free. The South Korean electronics manufacturer is teaming up with Best Buy (NYSE: BBY) to give away Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablets if you buy a...

Standard & Poor's Equity Research is out with a note on technology ETFs that investors may want to have a look following the announcement by Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) of its $12.5 billion bid for Motorola Mobility (NYSE: MMI), the largest maker of mobile handsets that run on Google's Android...

The markets are getting crushed today after global worries resurfaced and U.S. economic numbers were just plain ugly. The selling started in Europe early this morning and continued at 10am ET when the Philly Fed Index came in at -30.7. The combination of these two factors sent investors running for...

Millions of investors, traders and money managers are pinning their hopes on one phrase. Trillions upon trillions of dollars are at stake here. Sorry to disappoint. There will be no QE3. Not on August 26th, anyway. This morning we got July Consumer Price Index (CPI), and it was extremely hot...

Shares of Huntington Bank (NASDAQ: HBAN) dropped about 2.8% as the company named Helga Houston as the bank's chief risk officer. Shares of Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE: HPQ) dropped about 4% as the company is all set to report its quarterly earnings today. HPQ is projected to report its Q3 EPS at...

China Mobile (NYSE: CHL) confirmed Thursday it has met with Steve Jobs to discuss Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) manufacturing an iPhone that would support its proprietary 3G standard.

US stock futures are lower this morning, as investors are awaiting economic data. Futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average dipped 177 points to 11,204.00 and S&P 500 index futures fell 21.90 points to 1,168.00. Nasdaq 100 futures dropped 44.00 points to 2,131.25. US stocks closed mixed on...

Dollar Tree Inc (NASDAQ: DLTR) is projected to report its Q2 EPS at $0.75 on revenue of $1.55 billion. Sears Holdings Corporation (NASDAQ: SHLD) is estimated to post a Q2 loss at $0.46 per share on revenue of $10.13 billion. Gap Inc (The) (NYSE: GPS) is projected to report its Q2 EPS at $0.33 on...

On CNBC's Mad Money, Jim Cramer said during the Lightning Round that Crocs (NASDAQ: CROX) is a “great story. If it goes back down, I'm going to recommend it." For Covidien (NYSE: COV), he said, "You hold on and buy more. That is a great company that is a buy, buy, buy." Cramer said that Alcoa (...

All day traders should know this, the week leading into options expiration is an extremely tough period to trade. This is a time when the large institutional trading desks will play a lot games with the small retail options traders. Just look at the major stock indexes this week on any intra-day...

(TheStreet) -- Beyond the 17,000 reasons Motorola's (NYSE: MMI) patent portfolio matters to Google's (NASDAQ: GOOG) Android attack against Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), there are other huge motivations behind Google's leap into hardware. For a software shop with fat 64% gross margins, there would seem to...

And no explanation for the outage. After hours of fluctuations, Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) online store is finally back online. The catch? The company has nothing to show for it. There aren't any new products. No apology messages. No explanations whatsoever. If this does not add to the speculation...

Eastman Kodak Company (NYSE: EK) came up with the slogan, "You press the button, we do the rest" hundreds of years ago when the company first started. Now it looks like the company's patents are all it has left, and according to Bloomberg, those patents may be extremely valuable. The company had...

Apple's strategy in the patent wars could include a supplier change. That's according to an afternoon update from Global Equities Research. Earlier today, the research firm released a report regarding the sales of Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) computers, particularly those associated with the company's...

Reports indicate that something new is on the way, but is it all just a cover to hide what's really going on? Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) is notorious for taking down its own online store in preparation for the launch of a new product. This process is often a fast one; the last time store.apple.com went...