NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- OpenTable Inc. priced its initial public offering at $20 a share for its stock-market debut on Thursday in what is only the second venture-backed deal since August of 2008. OpenTable (OPEN) offered 3 million shares at $20 ...Read More
Ever wonder what tech sites Steve Jobs reads? Well, according to Silicon Alley Insider some of those sites are our very own sister site Engadget, along with Gizmodo, The New York Times Tech section, and the Wall Street Journal.
SAI's source ...Read More
After nearly two decades of putting cutting-edge personal electronic devices in the hands of consumers, Palm Inc.'s grip on survival may finally be slipping. The smart phone maker's stock plunged nearly 30% on Friday after several Wall Street analysts offered grim ...Read More
March 19 (Bloomberg) -- Palm Inc., maker of the Pre smartphone, fell the most in two years after predicting sales this quarter will be less than half of Wall Street estimates, prompting some analysts to question the company's viability. Revenue in ...Read More
Conflicting reports have surfaced for the last week about how well Apple's still-unreleased iPad is selling, how well it will sell, and whether it'll make more of a dent in the market than the iPhone's debut.
Most recently, unnamed sources told ...Read More
Apple had high hopes of delivering an all-you-can-eat buffet of television shows in the form of a subscriptions service by the time its iPad hits the market next month, but opposition from networks has forced the company to adopt Plan ...Read More
Apple could sell more iPads in the first three months of availability than it sold original iPhones in the same period, according to sources quoted by the Wall Street Journal. "Hundreds of thousands" of units have already been pre-ordered, says ...Read More
NEW YORK-IronPlanet Inc., which operates an online marketplace for used heavy equipment, plans to raise $92 million through an initial public offering. The Pleasanton, Calif. company said in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission that it will use the ...Read More
Perry Ellis International Inc. reported a fourth-quarter profit as lower operating expenses and fewer markdowns helped it recover from a loss a year earlier. The clothing company also forecast a higher profit and revenue for this year that are within the ...Read More
LONDON-European stocks opened higher Friday, taking their lead from Wall Street, where the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed higher for the eighth consecutive session. The Stoxx Europe 600 Index rose 0.4%. The FTSE 100 added 0.3%, France's CAC-40 rose 0.4% and ...Read More
Both National Public Radio and the Wall Street Journal are preparing Flash-free iPad sites in time for the device's April 3rd debut.
MediaMemo cites a blog post over at NPR, letting us know that NPR fans can either download an updated ...Read More
Customers may be pre-ordering Apple's new iPad devices by the hundreds of thousands, but when they press the "On" button on April 3, they might be disappointed at the lack of content. Apple is still scrambling to make last-minute deals ...Read More
The Wall Street Journal has written that Apple is scrambling to get everything ready for the iPad's release on April 3rd -- not only has it already "sold hundreds of thousands of the device, [according to] people familiar with ...Read More
Few outside of Apple have seen an iPad in person, but that hasn't stopped a rush of preorders for the touch-screen tablet device.
Sources have told The Wall Street Journal that Apple has "sold hundreds of thousands" of iPads since the ...Read More
Apple is on pace to potentially sell more iPads in its first three months than it sold iPhones in the three months after the touch-screen handset made its debut back in 2007, people familiar with the company's running sales totals ...Read More
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Four top Federal Reserve officials chiefs urged Congress on Thursday not to strip the U.S. central bank of the authority to supervise small banks, saying they would lose an important finger on the pulse of the economy ...Read More
(Reuters) - Stock index futures pointed to a slightly lower open on Wall Street on Thursday, with futures for the S&P 500 down 0.2 percent, Dow Jones futures down 0.07 percent and Nasdaq 100 futures down 0.12 percent.
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SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro said "it would be safe to assume" that the agency was looking closely at the conduct of a number of firms during this time. She did not name the companies. Schapiro spoke in testimony before a House ...Read More
There isn't much to say about the HTC Supersonic that hasn't been said already. It's big (in a 4.3-inch-display sort of way). It's beautiful. It's Android-powered, and runs on Sprint's 4G WiMax network. It's just not.. you know, official in ...Read More
As if looting Main Street of its savings, pensions, and that precious thing called trust weren't enough, now Wall Street paints a target on our backs. The unease begins with the title of the lead story in The New York Times: ...Read More
* Q3 EPS $1.01 vs Street view 89 cents Stocks | Currencies | Cyclical Consumer Goods * Q3 revenue up 7 percent to $4.7 billion * Sees Q4 revenue up in mid- to high-single digits * Shares up 3.4 percent (Adds executives' comments, details ...Read More
