Telecom Investing
Microsoft Late to the Smart Phone Party; Middle Eastern Markets and Oil Prices Get a Jolt… from Israel; Citigroup Minimizes Alternative Asset Holdings to $2.5 Billion
In a blockbuster $7.2- billion deal, Microsoft is acquiring Nokia’s cellphone business. Microsoft is paying 3.79 billion Finnish...
Vodafone Looks to Unload Verizon Wireless for $130 Billion; Pump-and-Dump Stocks Hit Medical Marijuana; Spreadsheet Is Smoking Gun in JPMorgan Probe
Telecom investors awoke Thursday to signs of renewed talks between U.K. giant Vodafone and Verizon Communications (VC) about...
Barclay’s Share Transactions Enough to Make Your Head Spin; Aetna’s Q2 Earnings Up 17 Percent; Clash of the Communications Titans
Barclay’s Plc, Great Britain’s second-largest bank as measured by assets on hand, plans to raise 5.8 billion pounds...
Samsung Misses Q2 Guidance, Shares Dip 3 Percent; So Who Sells Policies to Cover the Insurance Sector?; The Biggest Winner in this Week’s Dwight Howard Saga — Investors!
Until recently, South Korean electronics titan Samsung had created a sterling reputation for itself within the smartphone industry...
Hong Kong Fever Hitting IPO; Toyota Joins the Cast of ‘Total Recall’; Nokia Escalates 2013 Phone Wars
Despite having nine fewer initial public offerings scheduled in the first half of the year, Hong Kong’s initial...
Stay-at-Home Millionaires on the Rise in England; Blackberry’s Rollercoaster Life; Obama’s Back to Africa Campaign Not Resonating with U.S. Business
Britain’s Zoopla Property Group’s 2013 Property Rich List got a lot thicker this year with the addition of...
Dish Network is Worth Watching as a Possible Winner in Battle for Sprint
Dish Network (DISH) Chairman Charlie Ergen is giving investors an intriguing drama to follow as he attempts to...
Hedge Fund Manger Eyes Sony Break-up; J.P. Morgan’s Dimon is in the Crosshairs; Verizon-Vodafone Agrees to Slice $7 Billion Dividend Pie
Daniel Lieb, the man behind the ouster of Yahoo’s former chief and the hiring of Marissa Mayer away...
Don’t Get Fooled by S&P’s Dark Secret about Technology; Is European Telecommunications Getting Cut off? Six States Eye Gold as Currency
One key sector of the S&P 500 has lost ground: technology.
Eagle Eye Opener: Gold Hits Two-Year Low; Dish Network Takes Run at Sprint; Voice of Chavez Still Echoes in Venezuela
Gold dipped to under $1,400 an ounce earlier today, losing more than $200 in value in the last...