Pentagon Awards $358 Million in Defense Contracts Wednesday
Filed under: Investing The Department of Defense awarded only six defense contracts Wednesday, worth a total of $358.2 million. Among the publicly traded companies winning contracts: Britain's BAE...
View ArticleWhy Waste Management Inc. Might Be Worth Throwing Out
Filed under: Investing While Fools should generally take the opinion of Wall Street with a grain of salt, it's not a bad idea to take a closer look at particularly stock-shaking upgrades and downgrades...
View ArticleRevealed: Google's Strategy for Killing Windows
Filed under: Investing Google strategy is to kill Microsoft's Windows, Fool contributor Tim Beyers says in the following video. How will it happen? A recent deal with VMware that brings the company's...
View ArticleWhy Westport Innovations Inc. Is Ready to Rebound
Filed under: Investing While Fools should generally take the opinion of Wall Street with a grain of salt, it's not a bad idea to take a look at particularly stock-shaking analyst upgrades and...
View ArticleWednesday's Top Upgrades (and Downgrades)
Filed under: Investing This series, brought to you by Yahoo! Finance, looks at which upgrades and downgrades make sense, and which ones investors should act on. Today, our headlines are focusing on...
View ArticleNielsen Pressed to Delay New Hybrid Metric Service
Filed under: Investing Only about a week after CBS agreed to expand its relationship with Nielsen Holdings , which included the now controversial "hybrid" methodology of measuring local TV audiences,...
View ArticleLinkedIn and Facebook: 2 Different Approaches to Monetizing Content
Filed under: Investing Content is king. This seems to be the propaganda driving recent efforts by LinkedIn and Facebook to take their content efforts to the next level. Both companies, however, are...
View ArticleDow Rebounds, Infoblox Soars on Upgrade
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 ArticleWill Apple, Inc. Stock Benefit From a Touch MacBook?
Filed under: Investing Are touchscreen laptops the future? Those hoping to see Apple stock touch new highs should hope so, Fool contributor Tim Beyers says in the following video. In a recent patent...
View ArticleWhich Top Grocery Store Is Now Presenting Top Investment Value?
Filed under: Investing Top grocery companies Kroger , Whole Foods Market , Sprouts Farmers Market , and SUPERVALUÂ have all seen weakness in 2014. However, with grocery being non-cyclical and...
View ArticleInvestor Beat -- February 20, 2014
Filed under: Investing The social network Facebook has announced that it's buying the popular and rapidly growing smartphone messaging app WhatsApp for $19 billion. The service allows users to send...
View ArticleHow Activision Blizzard Could Make Billions -- With Free Games
Filed under: Investing Destiny, the new title that Activision Blizzard is set to launch in September, retails for $60 and will likely rocket into a billion-dollar video game brand. But the company...
View ArticlePentagon Expands Scope of $7 Billion "Green Energy" Program
Filed under: Investing The Department of Defense awarded seven defense contracts Thursday, worth a total of at least $96.2 million -- and potentially a whole lot more -- to the companies receiving...
View ArticleGilead Sciences, Inc on Its Way to Dominating Its Second Multibillion-Dollar...
Filed under: Investing It's rare enough for a biotech to succeed, and even rarer for a biotech to ultimately dominate a therapeutic area. But to do it twice? That's almost unheard of, and yet here we...
View ArticleThe Coca-Cola Company's $8.5 Billion Cash Returns to Shareholders
Filed under: Investing Coca-Cola disappointed some on Wall Street this week when it announced that revenue slipped last quarter as its soda business stayed flat. Still, the company closed out an...
View ArticlePentagon Awards $96 Million in New Defense Contracts Thursday
Filed under: Investing The Department of Defense awarded seven defense contracts Thursday, worth a total of at least $96.2 million -- and potentially a whole lot more -- to the companies receiving...
View ArticleWhy This "Bioshock" to Take-Two's System Might Be Good Over the Long Haul
Filed under: Investing A sad day for Irrational Games might end well for Take-Two Interactive , Fool contributor Tim Beyers says in the following video. First, the bad news. After 17 years, Irrational...
View ArticleDirecTV Beats on Q4 EPS; $3.5 Billion Share Buyback Launched
Filed under: Investing DirecTV is reporting a better-than-expected Q4. In its quarterly and fiscal 2013 results released today, the company said it took in $8.6 billion in revenues for the quarter, up...
View ArticleToday's 3 Worst Stocks in the S&P 500
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 ArticleCrocs Q4 Loss Narrower Than Expected
Filed under: Investing Shares of Crocs rose to their feet following the release of the company's Q4 and fiscal 2013 results. For the quarter, revenue was $229 million, an improvement from the $225...
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