Don't look now, but there's another crisis in Europe -- a crisis in the telecom industry. Telecom Italia is under siege. So is Telefonica. Debt levels are high, dividends

This is what happens when a software company messes around in the most competitive consumer hardware market on earth: a $900M mistake. Microsoft announced its earnings today and said

Good know all the money being pumped into mobile devices is going somewhere. Verizon Communications (VZ) reported a solid second quarter with a profit of 73 cents per share

It's the one-year anniversay of Marissa Mayer taking over as the CEO of the Internet site for old geezers, Yahoo. That means it's cause for the Silicon Valley sycophants

AT&T on Friday announced it's buying independent carrier Leap Wireless Inc. (LEAP) for about $1.2 billion in a bid to scale up in its battle against goliath rival Verizon.Leap's

Apple is probably the best business competitor in the world. And when you win, eventually you will have to deal with anti-trust accusations, much as Microsoft dealt with in

The market is pretty fascinating right now. It is currently featuring 100-point intra-month S&P swings, a solid rally in eccentric commodities like coffee, currencies bouncing around like ping-pong balls,

Another day, another deal. Intel has agreed to buy security software firm McAfee for $7.68 billion (Wall Street Journal). That's $48 per share, or a 60% premium to Wednesday's

Let's catch up on many of the public companies and stocks we've been following:

Dell is making a big move into the data storage market with a $1.15 billion all-cash deal for 3Par Inc. It comes at an interesting time, as 3Par's growth

Something on Cisco's earnings call last night went terribly wrong. In a rational business sense, Cisco made plenty of money, even though they missed analyst estimates: $1.9B in profit

Cisco shares are getting hammered nearly 6% after hours after the company missed targets set by analysts.

Well, who doesn't like to say, "I told ya so?" I certainly do, which is why I'm pointing out that Intel has settled (again) with the Federal Trade Commission

A great why to find advantageous companies is to look at those driving key technology market trends and generating good business results when the rest of the market is

RightNow Technologies, a scrappy CRM company that is starting to become a more serious competitor with CRM giants such as SAP, Oracle's Siebel, and Salesforce, just announced a solid

Calix shares got hammered pretty hard on Friday after the company issued weak earnings guidance on the quarter. But investors might have been panicking about a whole lot of

Tech earnings reports are rolling in like Budeweisers in a NASCAR infield, and we've got it covered. What's striking is the range of results, from earnings bombs like Netflix,

Broadband equipment maker Calix is rallying on its first post-IPO earnings release, after it announced that revenue increased 50%.

One of the themes we've been following here is the buildout in more telecom connectivity -- whether it be Ethernet connections or all those data connections to mobile-phone towers

Yesterday, I pointed out that it's absurd to consider Microsoft a declining company when in fact it's been making an average of $15B a year in profit and has

Nothing to get a bunch of slathering sycophantic tech journos rolling like a new iPhone upgrade. This morning's news focuses on the rollout of the new iPhone and related

I've been poking around Telecom New Zealand (NZT) for quite a while. It first showed up in a dividend stock screen when the dividend was paying about 8%. Forbes'

It's funny how the financial and technology press like stampede onto the same story like uneducated mass of Angus cattle. Yesterday's example: 15,000 stories about how Apple has surpassed

Research firm Broadpoint AmTech, which has been on top of the solid rally in specialty chipmakers, yesterday raised its earnings estimates and price target for Omnivision (OVTI), a chipmaker