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Dell announced their fiscal 2014 second quarter results, with revenue of $14.5 billion, GAAP earnings of $0.12 per share and non-GAAP earnings of $0.25 per share. The company’s Enterprise Solutions, Services and Software (ES&S) revenue was $5.8 billion, growing 9 percent year over year, including the benefit of the Quest acquisition. In End User Computing, […]

You know it’s going to be an interesting day when you push the start button on your Dell (NASDAQ:DELL) tower, wait for your Dell monitor to come alive, you begin typing on your Dell keyboard and use your Dell mouse to direct your browser to the financial headlines that practically scream in your face that “Dell […]

Today will be the day to watch the share price of computer modem manufacturer Cisco (NASDAQ:CSCO).  The company released it’s fourth quarter results for the year ending 27 July, reporting a profit of $2.27 billion, or $0.42 per share.  This represents an 18% increase over the Q4 2012, during which the profit was $0.36 per […]

BlackBerry (TSX:BB, NASDAQ:BBRY) “revolutionized mobile phone technology when it was introduced in 1999.”   If you were there – and it’s likely, if you are reading this story, that you were – you should remember it well.  “I’ve got a BlackBerry,” was the status symbol phrase of the day.  Those of us withregular cell phones […]

Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) Redefines Everything.  That headline could be over 100 years old and it could refer to Nikola Tesla himself.  Tesla, the unsung pioneer of the development of electricity probably never imagined that “Tesla” would be the nameplate of a car and a manufacturer that are bringing the most radical change to the automotive industry […]

Look for the next few days, if not weeks or months, to be a bumpy ride for world markets.  While Mark Carney’s remarks today (see my ADVFN colleague Tom Frew’s remarks) will have some impact on the London Exchange, the whole world is reacting to signs that the Federal Reserve is on the verge of […]

It’s not likely that there could be any bigger news out of the U.S. today than the announcement that Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) CEO, Jeff Bezos has agreed to purchase the Washington Post (NYSE:WPO).  We’re not talking about buying a single copy or signing up for a subscription.  We’re talking about him buying the whole enchilada.  Actually, […]

Provides “as much as $470 million” of increased value The Special Committee of the Board of Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) has announced that it has entered into a revised definitive merger agreement with Michael Dell and Silver Lake Partners that increases the aggregate value to unaffiliated shareholders by at least $350 million, as follows: Increases […]

US auto-industry recovering as the Motor City faces crisis Chevrolet, part of the GM Group, sold a record 2.5 million vehicles around the world in the first six months of 2013, up 1.4 percent over the same period in 2012, and achieved its 11th straight quarter of increased sales on the strength of new products […]

The flagship retail store of The Bay is an icon of downtown Toronto at the intersection of Yonge and Queen.  It is the store to which Toronto families flock in the weeks before Christmas to see the seasonal displays in the windows along the main street of the city.  Along with the Eaton Center, it […]