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Spring is here and that means Easter bunnies, hidden eggs, flowers blossoming and spring cleaning. It also means that legions of people who didn’t watch one NCAA basketball game all season are about to become college hoops experts. Yes, for a few weeks, basketball takes center stage during the...

Liberty Media (NASDAQ: LMCA) (NASDAQ: LMCB) is reportedly in talks with Charter Communications (NASDAQ: CHTR) to acquire 25 percent of the firm. According to The Wall Street Journal, the deal would be worth nearly $2.5 billion. If this report proves to be true, it will be Liberty Media's first...

Samsung’s new Galaxy S4 phone is making headlines and it’s leaving the Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) faithful feeling like they’re holding one of these. (Don’t lie; you had one of these phones.) Despite the other carriers rolling out phones that are, arguably, just as good or better than the iPhone, its...

Sometimes success is as simple as a sale. BlackBerry (NASDAQ: BBRY) shares surged Wednesday after the smartphone maker said it had received an order for 1 million BlackBerry 10 smartphones, with shipment set to begin immediately. According to Reuters, the company did not disclose either the...

It’s no secret that the cell phone business is still hot and there are plenty of ways to play it. The manufacturers like Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) and Nokia (NYSE: NOK), the carriers—Verizon (NYSE: VZ) or AT&T (NYSE: T), and others like Level 3 Communications (NYSE: LVLT) that help to manage the...

Few consumers are aware that it is technically illegal to unlock an Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone, a Samsung Galaxy S III or any other cellular device. The problem started last year when the Copyright Office of the Library of Congress failed to provide a key exemption to cellular devices (which it...

When Leap Wireless' (NASDAQ: LEAP) prepaid network decided to offer the iPhone in 2012, the company expected big sales. This was an easy expectation to make. After all, Sprint (NYSE: S) has been boasting about its high iPhone sales for several quarters. AT&T (NYSE: T) sold 8.6 million...

John Lundgren and Tamara Lundgren are not like most couples. As the chief executives of two of the world's largest firms, they are lucky if they see each other once a week. "We have a blood oath that we see each other on Friday nights somewhere," Tamara, who is the CEO of Schnitzer Steel...

Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone is easily the most popular smartphone in the world. Samsung may collectively sell more devices, but not even the Galaxy S III -- which sold more than 30 million units last year -- can keep up with the iPhone. That success has allowed carriers to charge whatever they...

This weekend in Barron's online: part one of the Barron's 2013 Roundtable picks and pans, the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum and the prospects for Crocs, Fossil and a buyout of Dell. Cover Story "Here's What's Cooking for 2013" by Lauren R. Rublin. Members of the Barron's 2013...

The focus was on the big banks last week, with Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS), J.P. Morgan (NYSE: JPM) and Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) reporting strong results, but Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) and Citigroup (NYSE: C) not so much. The spotlight is on tech earnings this week. Analysts anticipate lower per-...

Marketwatch suggests that media stocks Dish Network (NASDAQ: DISH), Sirius XM Radio (NASDAQ: SIRI) and the New York Times (NYSE: NYT) are among the likely takeover candidates in the new year. Whether someone wants their spectrum, another company already effectively controls them, or they have...

Bank of America Merrill Lynch offered some defensive stock picks for 2013 in a research report. Two utilities and a telecom made the list. They were American Electric Power (NYSE: AEP), American Water Works (NYSE: AWK) and CenturyLink (NYSE: CTL). Here is a quick look at how these three picks have...

This weekend in Barron's online: stock picks for 2013, speculation about who will be the next Treasury chief and the prospects for Men's Wearhouse, Crosstex Energy and big pharma. Cover Story "Our 10 Favorite Stocks for 2013" by Andrew Bary. Barron's takes a look at where to invest in 2013. The...

This weekend in Barron's online: dealing with the fiscal cliff, special reports on retirement, and the prospects for Berkshire Hathaway. Cover Story "Shock Treatment" by Gene Epstein. "So I think it's really important for the fiscal policy makers to, you know, work together and find a solution...