Google's Getting Ready to Dominate Your Car As Well
Filed under: Investing Google made big news at the recent International CES in Las Vegas with the announcement of the Open Automotive Alliance. As its website says, the OAA "is a global alliance of...
View ArticleHarley-Davidson, Inc. Takes Care of Its Fans
Filed under: Investing Photo: Harley-Davidson. When Harley-Davidson announced that it was recalling 29,000 Touring and Softail CVO motorcycles to fix a potential glitch last fall, it did something...
View ArticleThe Best iPad Apps to Download
Filed under: Investing When it comes to the tablet market, Apple's iPad remains dominant, and it isn't hard to see why: The biggest advantage Apple's iPad has over its rivals from Google and Amazon.com...
View ArticleWhat the Increase in Water Consumption Means for Soft-Drink Makers
Filed under: Investing Coca-Cola is heavily levered to the carbonated-beverage space. This means that a large part of its revenue is generated via soft-drink sales, unlike PepsiCo , which has a large...
View ArticleIs Nike Inc. Destined for Greatness?
Filed under: Investing Investors love stocks that consistently beat the Street without getting ahead of their fundamentals and risking a meltdown. The best stocks offer sustainable market-beating...
View ArticleHere's What This $69 Billion Manager Has Been Buying
Filed under: Investing Every quarter, many money managers have to disclose what they've bought and sold, via "13F" filings. Their latest moves can shine a bright light on smart stock picks. Today let's...
View ArticleWhy You Shouldn't Overlook Amgen, Inc.
Filed under: Investing Fourth-quarter results released by Amgen were roughly in line with Wall Street estimates. So, while shares didn't react particularly strongly (and have pretty much tracked the...
View ArticleAsk a Fool: What's Your Foolish Opinion on Organovo?
Filed under: Investing In this video as part of The Motley Fool's "Ask a Fool" series, Fool health-care analyst David Williamson takes a question from a Fool reader, who writes, "What's your Foolish...
View ArticleWill Teva Pharmaceutical Industries LTD Shares Wilt Under the Federal...
Filed under: Investing Shares of Teva Pharmaceutical Industries were down about 1% after the company disclosed a federal investigation into its marketing practices. Both Teva's primary money-maker,...
View ArticleJanet Yellen on Capitol Hill: The Fed's Communications Problem
Filed under: Investing Although we don't believe in timing the market or panicking over daily movements, we do like to keep an eye on market changes -- just in case they're material to our investing...
View ArticleFeathers Are Ruffled Over California's Chicken Regulations
Filed under: Investing Because of the Constitution's Commerce Clause regulating interstate transactions, it certainly seems California will lose a legal challenge to its chicken regulations after...
View ArticleA Game-Changer for Gilead Sciences?
Filed under: Investing Investors in Gilead Sciences had something to shout about last week as the company beat Wall Street estimates when it reported its fourth-quarter results. While the results...
View ArticleBarnes & Noble Spikes on Nook Layoffs, but McDonald's and Annie's Fall
Filed under: Investing Although we don't believe in timing the market or panicking over daily movements, we do like to keep an eye on market changes -- just in case they're material to our investing...
View ArticleWhat to Watch When NVIDIA Corporation Reports This Week
Filed under: Investing Graphics specialist NVIDIA is due to report earnings on Wednesday, and in this video from Monday's edition of Tech Teardown, Motley Fool tech and telecom analyst discusses with...
View ArticleCarl Icahn Gives Up. You Win, Apple Inc.
Filed under: Investing Well-known billionaire and activist investor Carl Icahn has been loudly calling for Apple to release some of its cash hoard to the benefit of shareholders by instituting very...
View Article3 Problems That Microsoft Needs To Solve
Filed under: Investing When your company is mentioned fairly consistently with a "lost decade" of returns, you know that drastic changes may be needed to sway investors. Microsoft has a new strategy...
View ArticleOuterwall Pushing Higher and Higher
Filed under: Investing Techy kiosk firm Outerwall has been a polarizing stock for some time, but it appears the bulls are winning these days, as the company recently touched its 52-week high. The...
View ArticleVintage Capital Doesn't Want to Just Rent Aaron's
Filed under: Investing If at first you don't succeed try, try ... and try and try again. That's what private equity firm Vintage Capital Management is doing, pursuing rent-to-own leader Aaron's for the...
View ArticleIs Ingles Headed Back Toward Growth?
Filed under: Investing A few months back, I touched on regional grocery chain Ingles Markets . The stores don't have nearly the name recognition of many industry players, but they're growing in number...
View ArticleThe Real Game-Changer for Apple in 2014
Filed under: Investing Apple is putting its abundant financial resources to use lately. The company has repurchased a whopping $14 billion of its own stock in only two weeks, with a positive reaction...
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