Gene Marcial, Business Weeks Inside Wall Street columnist, likes the following stocks: 1. Sempra Energy (SRE) a. This utility has lined up new sources of earnings through 2012, which would provide a diversified earnings stream and a stable cash flow; It...

Daniel Ives, analyst at FBR Capital Markets, recommended Nuance Communications (NUAN), which makes speech recognition software and other speech and imaging solutions: a.Nuance is continuing to see very strong demand in the field across its segments b.exp...

Needham analyst Charlie Wolf recommended SELLING Research in Motion: a. The iPhone 3G appear poised to blow through everyones forecasts; Research in motion, though dominating the consumer market, is bound to come under siege because of the iPhone. b. th...

S&P Analyst Robert Gold gives BUY OPINION ON ST. JUDE MEDICAL: a. Second quarter sales grew a solid 20% to $1.14 billion; driven by upside in cardiac rhythm management, cardiovascular, neuro and AF. b. Gross margin was also better than expected. c. l...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Apple`s decision to slash prices on its iPhone has investors fretting that the do-no-wrong tech giant is taking its lumps in the bruising cell phone market. Apple shares slipped again Thursday as traders tried to sort out the implications...

Launch of the Google Phone appears close at hand. The architect, Rich Miner, has already exhibited the cell phone`s prototype to a group of Boston venture capitalists and entrepreneurs after completing the design work in a Cambridge, Mass.-based office in Kend...

Rapid recovery probably isn`t at hand, but Motorola (MOT - Cramer`s Take - Stockpickr - Rating) fans are optimistic that most of the dreadful downside drama is over. The No. 2 mobile phone giant is due to report first-quarter earnings before the market open...

Roy Vallee said that `a lot of hard work` went into Avnet`s remarkable quarter, and when Cramer asked the CEO how the distributor had a stronger performance than its clients, the semiconductors, Vallee said that the company`s broad base across various industri...

I found this blog posted by Chad Brand on www.seekignalpha.com and completely agree with this view: Ever since I suggested a long Google (GOOG), short Yahoo! (YHOO) paired trade back in July of 2006, it`s been very interesting to compare the earnings report...

Rashtchy of Piper Jaffray says his target price hasn`t seen reality yet because of the sector, not Google. `There was rotation away from the Internet,` he says. `That was largely the reason there was less interest in all these stocks.` He still believes th...

Listen to turn-by-turn directions from the inside of your motorcycle helmet, check your trail map from the handlebars of your mountain bike, plot your chart and find fish on your next boating trip, or steer clear of lightning strikes when flying your jet....

When AMD issued a profit warning last week due to pricing pressure, Intel watchers could take it two ways: Intel is kicking the snot out of AMD; Or there`s a price war that`ll hurt both parties. We`ll get more color on whether Intel had any price war...

An interesting software company in `business intelligence`. A euphmism for getting more out of your existing business. Productivity is key and COGN is a global provider of productivity solutions and making sense of all the data and information a company posses...

Apple stock has had an impressive performance, and most common thought that goes through investor*s mind is to take some money off the table. However, Apple*s shares will probably trade higher once again next year. Expanding products portfolio, growing d...

By Jack Hough - December 13, 2006 HEARTY CONGRATULATIONS to Google shareholders who`ve been in from the beginning: They`re up nearly fivefold. This column jumped on in a February 2005 round-up2 of search sites: `The real surprise here might be Google,` we co...

Just looking at Oracle`s financial statements, you can see that the company generated $16.3 billion in free cash in the past 5 years. However, $14.6 billion on shareholder`s cash was spent on acquisitions. Even though ORCL was up strongly in 2006, it is only...

Oracle reported earnings today (12/18). Its second-quarter profit rose 21%, as sales surged 26%, boosted by stronger demand for the business-application software products it acquired. However, sales of new licenses rose less than expected – this sent the sto...

I agree with Jim Cramer and his list of CEOs that need to go. One of them is Terry Simmel, who is a CEO of Yahoo. Has done a terrible job. In 2006 Yahoo was down 35% compared to Google that was up 11%. Google is taking market share and crushing Yahoo. Inc...