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Market intelligence firm TrendForce has reported that smartphone shipments increased significantly during the second quarter. Global shipments increased 31.4 percent over Q2 2012 as manufacturers sent 221 million units to retail. This is also a 6.6 percent increase over the first quarter of the...

The earnings crunch continues this week. Reports are due from the likes of Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), Caterpillar (NYSE: CAT) and General Motors (NYSE: GM), which are expected to say their earnings were lower than a year ago. On the other hand, Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN), Facebook (NASDAQ: FB), Ford (...

It’s dominated the mobile-market news all week. T-Mobile (NYSE: TMUS), Verizon (NYSE: VZ), and AT&T (NYSE: T) are offering a new program where customers can receive a new phone after a specified period by paying a monthly fee. Each plan is slightly different, but generally the way it...

And the most innovate wireless carrier is? Apparently, T-Mobile (NYSE: TMUS). The company recently revealed its “Jump” plan that allows customers to trade in their old phone up to four times in a 24 month period for a cost of $10 per month.  The $10 also includes insurance which makes the plan...

AT&T (NYSE: T) announced Friday it will pay about $1.2 billion in a deal to acquire Leap Wireless International (NASDAQ: LEAP), according to USA Today. The acquisition, which will give AT&T all of Leap’s assets, including stock, wireless properties, stores and nearly five million...

It was a good week for U.S. markets, but going into the weekend, some names gave investors the gift of a compelling technical setup. To get the week started, we compiled five large cap. stocks that crossed above their 50 day moving averages. If you’re looking for some trading ideas for the week,...

For $10 a month, the country’s #4 cellphone service provider, T-Mobile US (NYSE: TMUS), said subscribers could trade in their old, working phone up to four times in a 24-month period, according to Bloomberg. Under the banner of a new program called “Jump,” T-Mobile is putting the squeeze on...

At least two firms have lost their bid to acquire the Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) of television. According to the New York Post, Guggenheim Digital Media and KKR (NYSE: KKR) are no longer in the running to purchase Hulu. While several companies have been added to the prospective buyer's list this year...

It seems that the only firms that don't want Hulu are its current owners. Six years ago, News Corp.'s (NASDAQ: NWS) Fox network joined forces with NBC (which had not yet been acquired by Comcast (NASDAQ: CMCSA)) to build the ultimate online video site for television. Thus far, they seemed to have...

The recent sell off in the equity market created some attractive buy levels in some of the high yielding dividend stocks. We ran a screen that looked at larger cap. companies yielding at least five percent that are heavily traded. We also looked for charts that had seem a recent sell off but...

The results are in. Verizon Wireless, jointly owned by Verizon Communications (NYSE: VZ) and Vodafone Group plc (NASDAQ: VOD), may be the country’s biggest mobile-phone carrier with 93 million subscribers, but it is not the fastest. That honor now goes to number two, AT&T (NYSE: T) with 71...

PandoDaily reported Thursday that several sources with inside knowledge said a deal for DirecTV (NASDAQ: DTV) to acquire Hulu was “imminent.” The same sources said the selling price would be about $1 billion. The fact that Hulu, jointly owned by Disney (NYSE: DIS), News Corp (NASDAQ: NWSA) and...

What's the best way for a manufacturer to make a product stand out from the crowd? If a new report is accurate, Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) believes that it can be accomplished by raising the price. Right now, consumers can buy the first-generation Nexus 7 for $199. That is the same price the device...

Comcast (NASDAQ: CMCSA), one of three corporations that currently owns Hulu, might hand the property off to one of its pay-TV rivals -- AT&T (NYSE: T). According to AllThingsD, the telecommunications giant is currently in discussions with Chernin Group -- one of the many firms that wants a...

Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) is having a difficult time staying out of its own way when it comes to negative headlines. First, it’s called to testify in front of Congress for its tax strategies, then it heads to court to defend itself in what appears to be the fruitless battle of trying to prove that...