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Shares of Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) are down more than two percent after the company announced its fourth fiscal quarter results. The Mac maker reported a Q4 EPS of $8.26 versus the street estimate of $7.88. Earnings per share were down five percent from the year-ago period. Revenue arrived at $37.5...

Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) hopes to release its first printer toward the middle of 2014. This is big news for the company, which is known for selling twice as many traditional printers as its nearest competitor, Canon (NYSE: CAJ). Now the company wants a piece of the 3D printing pie. According...

When the CIA gave a $600 million cloud computing contract to Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) earlier this year, IBM (NYSE: IBM) appealed to the Government Accountability Office (GAO) – stating that Amazon Web Service’s (AWS) bid does not fall within the set criteria within the contract. While GAO stated...

Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) expects to sell a large number of low-cost tablets this fall. According to DigiTimes, Amazon has asked Taiwan-based ODMs (original design manufacturers) to ship more than two million units of its slightly revised Kindle Fire HD. Retailing for $139 (for the 8GB model) and $...

Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) has developed a new Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) Chromebook that contains a unique feature not found in Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) MacBook. Instead of designing the Chromebook 11 to use a big and bulky, unit-specific charger, Hewlett-Packard created a notebook that can be charged...

Is Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) being hurt by its late arrival to the tablet market? In the months and years after Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) released the iPad in April 2010, dozens of companies entered the fray. Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ), Dell (NASDAQ: DELL), Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) and Toshiba (...

Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) has received an excessive amount of hype for adding a fingerprint scanner to its next-generation iPhone. While that might be a game-changing element that allows the company to become the champion of mobile commerce, it may not prove to be the most groundbreaking feature Apple...

It is amazing how one story can take over the Internet. Twitter, the world's second-largest social network, is going public. It won't happen overnight, but the mere mention of its IPO -- and confirmation that it has filed an S-1 with the SEC -- has excited the masses. While this wasn't the only...

The tipping point has arrived. According to Bloomberg, researcher IDC released a report stating that tablet shipments will surpass those of personal computers in the fourth quarter for the first time. Opting for ease and portability, consumers now favor mobile devices over laptops and...

In a move described as the largest in nearly a decade, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday that Alcoa (NYSE: AA), Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ), and Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) would be dropped from the Dow Industrials at the close of trading September 20. Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS), Nike (...

Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) may greatly reduce the number of notebooks it ships next year. According to DigiTimes, the company is internally forecasting that it will ship 21 million notebooks in 2014. This is significantly lower than the 32 million notebooks it shipped in 2012. In 2015, Hewlett-...

This weekend in Barron's online: how Lenovo is putting the moves on Apple and Samsung, as well as the prospects for Microsoft, Bob Evans Farms and Chinese and Korean stocks. Cover Story "Lenovo on the Attack" by Leslie P. Norton. Lenovo has come out of nowhere to become the global leader in...

Lenovo (OTC: LNVGY) and BlackBerry (NASDAQ: BBRY) might be on the verge of the biggest merger the smartphone industry has ever seen. Lenovo has been toying with a possible union for several months. Company executives have hinted at a potential buyout on multiple occasions. Little has come from...

In an interview with CNBC, Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) Chief Executive Meg Whitman said that the company does not need to spend billions of dollars on future acquisitions. "We don't need a $5 or $6 billion acquisition," she told the network. "I think there are acquisitions in the hundreds, $300...