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Jun 04 2008, 10:52 AM
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Kim Peterson
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A new round of technology investments has been announced by Intel Capital, the chipmaker's investment arm. Since it's always good to spy on where others are putting their money, I thought I'd list the eight investments, which total more than $60 million. Intel shares, by the way, are up nearly 3% today to $23.55.
Looks like the company is especially interested in online retailing, video content and distribution and social networking. Big surprise. Intel's track record isn't bad, though. It has invested in 1,000 companies since 1991. Of those, 168 have gone public and 212 were acquired or merged. On to the latest companies:
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Apr 28 2009, 03:48 AM
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Douglas McIntyre
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By the middle of the year, the federal government will own large, and in some cases, controlling interests, in two car companies and several major banks. There is a chance the the extent of rescue efforts and government ownership could move to auto parts suppliers and insurance companies. If the Treasury can pick up stock in Cisco (CSCO) and Intel (INTC), it can control most of the important sectors of the economy. That raises the issue of how the federal government gets all of that taxpayer money back.
The Wall Street Journal has reported that Citigroup (C) and Bank of America (BAC) have done poorly on their “stress tests”. Each bank may be encouraged to raise more capital. As a number of analysts have pointed out, private equity has no interest in stakes in troubled banks, even at a steep discount to current market values.
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Oct 13 2009, 06:06 PM
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InvestorPlace
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This article is by InvestorPlace's Jim Woods.
Chipmaker Intel (INTC) did it again. The tech bellwether handily beat consensus earnings forecasts for both its bottom line and the top line, reporting a third-quarter profit of 33 cents a share on revenue of $9.39 billion. Analysts who cover the stock were expecting a bottom line number of just 28 cents a share on revenue of $9.037 billion. Of course, with a company like Intel, the forecast for the quarter ahead is of supreme significance -- not just for Intel but for many companies in PC and related sectors. And here we have what could be the real reason to smile, for not only Intel, but for many other companies that use Intel chips in their products.
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Jul 24 2009, 05:39 AM
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Minyanville
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Dow 9,000!
The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above 9,000 for the first time since January. It marks a rally of over 2,500 points, or almost 39%, in a span of a little more than four months, according to The New York Times.
The underlying belief behind Thursday’s nearly 200-point performance is that companies are reporting better-than-expected profits, with companies like Intel (INTC), 3M (MMM) and even Ford (F) beating expectations.
But just as the Dow reached that psychological level, earnings results from Microsoft (MSFT) and American Express (AXP) disappointed investors. Strategists are calling for a correction in the markets, with some economists warning that a failed economic recovery could even lead to a double-dip recession wiping out stock market gains.
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Jun 23 2008, 05:41 AM
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Douglas McIntyre
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Filed under: Citigroup, Sprint, Wal-Mart, Intel, AMD, AT&T, Starbucks, Target, Sears, IBM, Costco, Sun Microsystems
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With the trading year almost half over and results from the first quarter out, 24/7 Wall Street has created the latest installment of its Ten Worst Managed Companies In America list. This is a companion piece to the "CEO of the Year" list and "Large Companies that May Disappear" series.
This analysis is based on: 1) one-year and five-year stock performance relative to the major indexes and other companies in the industry, 2) the company's position in its industry both now and over the last five years, 3) whether management made identifiable and critical decisions which hurt the company, 4) a change in the company's relative market strength compared to its competition, and 5) whether the company could have identified mistakes and changed course quickly enough to avoid a catastrophe.
Some readers will think it is not fair to include companies which have had a recent
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May 21 2008, 10:33 AM
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Kim Peterson
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Sprint Nextel has a problem keeping customers happy, according to the latest numbers from the American Customer Satisfaction Index. Sprint's numbers are so bad, in fact, that the index's founder wonders how the company can even stay afloat. "Business is unsustainable in a competitive marketplace when customer satisfaction scores are as low as Sprint Nextel's," said the founder, Claes Fornell. Sprint's satisfaction level dropped 8% from last year to 56 on the 100-point index. Verizon scored the best in the industry, at 72. Commenters on this blog regularly slam AT&T for its service, but the company's cell phone division gained 4% to score a 71. You can see the full customer satisfaction index here.
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Nov 26 2007, 10:32 AM
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Kim Peterson
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The Wall Street Journal has an excellent article about Nicholas Negroponte, an MIT professor who is pioneering an ambitious project to produce a $100 laptop that poor countries can buy for their children. It's a noble effort that would educate children and families as well as connect them to the Internet.
The article details the many challenges Negroponte is facing in his goal to get the laptop to 150 million children. So far, only about 2,000 children have received the computers. Why? Tech giants are worried the laptop will cut into future business opportunities in the developing world, so they're coming up with competing machines.
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Oct 15 2008, 12:11 PM
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Kim Peterson
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Here's a line that'll strike fear into Silicon Valley's heart: "Do not order any new equipment at this time." That came from an internal e-mail sent out last week across software company SAP. "No one at this point can say how markets and customers will react in the coming months," says the e-mail, which was obtained by The Wall Street Journal. The executives say they are reviewing all technology spending and have implemented a hiring freeze. It is exactly this mentality that's causing tech stocks to plummet. Executives have no idea how the economic downturn will hit their companies for the rest of the year. They're moving their employees immediately into make-do-with-less mode, which means no unnecessary travel, no big bonuses, and no money for new computers, BlackBerries or software.
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Dec 29 2008, 10:45 AM
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Kim Peterson
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Cisco Systems, whose shares are down 40% this year, is jumping into the consumer electronics business at the worst possible time. Or is it the best possible time?
The company's going to announce a new digital stereo system and other consumer products in January. Not the best environment for a splashy product launch: Consumer electronics companies are seeing a glut in inventory and are temporarily shutting down factories until sales pick up again.
But Cisco isn't aiming for the short term. The company has big visions of connecting its products to networks inside and outside the home. People having video chats with their relatives using Web cameras and high-def TVs.
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Jan 08 2009, 02:53 AM
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Bernhard Warner and Matthew Yeomans
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This post comes from partner site The Big Money.
Just how important is India's economy becoming? Important enough to generate a financial scandal that pushes Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scheme off the home pages of the New York Times and Wall Street Journal. Both report on Ramalinga Raju, head of Satyam Computer Services—one of India's most important outsourcing companies—who resigned yesterday after admitting he cooked the books, including maintaining a fictitious cash balance of more than $1 billion. "It was like riding a tiger, not knowing how to get off without being eaten," said Raju with a candor that would cause U.S. corporate defense lawyers to have a breakdown. Satyam runs back-office operations for one-third of the Fortune 500, handling computer systems and customer service for companies such as General Electric, Nestlé, and Cisco, and the U.S. government. Both newspapers note that Raju's indiscretions have cast a pall over other high-flying Indian companies and are "prompting investors to question other corporate results as the once-hot economy slows."
Which brings us back to that bastion of stability and integrity—the U.S. economy. CNN Money has the lowdown on a bad day on Wall Street, in which investors pulled back from six-week sustained rally on grim news from Alcoa and Intel (more on that below). The Dow Jones industrial average lost 245 points (2.7 percent), Standard & Poor's 500 index fell 3 percent, and the Nasdaq composite was down 3.2 percent. And you can bet there's more bad news to come today when the nation's retail chain stores report December sales figures. The results are expected to be "pretty dismal," says CNN Money. That explains part of the pain for
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