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AT&T (NYSE: T) said it would join forces with the Chernin Group in a $500 million joint venture to create and launch a Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX)-style video streaming service. According to Gigaom this marked the first potential launch of an OTT TV service by a large U.S. ISP. AT&T is the...

U.S. stocks held on to strong gains as U.S. industrial production rose more than projected. The Fed confirmed it will maintain a "friendly" policy that will support the economic recovery. According to Fed Chief Janet Yellen there are three main concerns the central bank is facing. Specifically...

Last summer, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) was reportedly on the verge of an employee retention problem. Global Equities Research analyst Trip Chowdhry researched the topic and found a growing number of Apple employees had apparently left the company for new positions with Facebook, Google, LinkedIn and...

Samsung (OTC: SSNLF), the South Korean electronics giant, sells more smartphones than anyone. According to market research firm, Strategy Analytics, the company shipped 319.8 million units in 2013, most of them powered by Google's (NASDAQ: GOOG) Android operating system. Perhaps not for long...

Intel (NASDAQ: INTC), which has set its sights on wearable technology, gaming and the Internet of Things in its effort to move away from the dwindling PC market, is scheduled to report its first-quarter 2014 results on Tuesday, April 15, after the markets close. As a member of the Dow Jones...

The new earnings season kicks into high gear this shortened week. Highlights will include quarterly reports from Bank of America, Citigroup and Goldman Sachs, from Intel and IBM, and from Coca-Cola, which are all expected to post earnings declines, as well as from Google and Johnson & Johnson...

U.S. stocks declined sharply for the second day in a row as investors found little reason to reverse Thursday's bullish activity. Right off the bat, JPMorgan reported disappointing quarterly results which led to a decline in the S&P 500 index. The Volatility Index, also known as the "fear...

U.S. stocks declined for the third straight day in another trading session in which Internet, social media, biotechnology and momentum stocks sold off. The Dow suffered another triple-digit point loss while the three major indices each saw declines greater than one percent. The timing of the...

This week Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) was thought to have set a goal for tablet sales in 2014. Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) may have done the same. King (NYSE: KING) defended its disappointing public debut. Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) spent $2 billion on yet another startup. Microsoft released Office for the...

Over-the-top online, web-based television is on. At least it is at Verizon (NYSE: VZ) after CEO, Lowell McAdam said Tuesday at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media & Telecom Conference that the company was in talks with major content providers to provide an online TV service. Without...

U.S. stocks were little changed on Wednesday as investors found no new catalysts to maintain a bull rally, especially ahead of Friday's employment report and no new major developments arising from the Ukraine/Russia stand-off. The Beige Book, released at 2:00 pm, confirmed what most already...

Among the semiconductor stocks that analysts at J.P. Morgan expect to flourish in the coming year are Altera (NASDAQ: ALTR), Intel (NASDAQ: INTC), Texas Instruments (NASDAQ: TXN) and Xilinx (NASDAQ: XLNX). In a recent research report, J.P. Morgan was impressed by the strong start to the year that...

Microsoft (NYSE: MSFT) is hoping that its new video game, Titanfall, will increase the company's earnings. Billionaire investor Carl Icahn now has a $400 million paper profit from his dealings with Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) that did nothing to improve the firm or make society a better place. That...

Among the leading semiconductor stocks, Altera (NASDAQ: ALTR), Marvell Technology (NASDAQ: MU) and Xilinx (NASDAQ: XLNX) saw the most significant swings in short interest between the January 15 and January 31 settlement dates. The number of shares sold short of Advanced Micro Devices, Applied...

U.S. technology giant, International Business Machines (NYSE: IBM) has appointed Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) to help it explore the possibility of selling its semiconductor manufacturing business, according to a report in the Financial Times on Thursday. Sources told the newspaper that in lieu of...