Hewlett-Packard’s (HPQ) fourth-quarter earnings reflect its continued effort to expand through acquisition and deliver end-to-end data services.The company is scheduled to release earnings Mond

Recently, the government’s Pay Czar, Kenneth Feinberg, “suggested” that outgoing Bank of America (BAC) CEO Ken Lewis should take home $0 in salary for 2009, and receive a bonus of e

Getting kicked down stairs at a small home-improvement company made Kenneth Langone rich and has saved millions of do-it-yourselfers big bucks.In 1978, the legendary investor got into a tiff with the

The US wireless industry is shrinking. Or maybe it’s growing. It all depends on which wireless giant you have on speed dial.The highly competitive mobile industry seems to be producing a tricke

This week’s review comes to you in a shortened format as I’m about to leave Cape Town for a visit to the colder environs of Switzerland and Slovenia. Although reduced commentary is provid

Tomorrow is the biggest day of the year for Verizon Wireless (VZ). It marks the full-scale release of the Motorola (MOT) Droid, the first Verizon Wireless smartphone that can truly compete with Apple

Editors Note: Welcome to Love It or Hate It, a regular dual-column feature that will capture the love-hate relationship America has with some of its biggest, most controversial companies. For past co

How is the consumer feeling?Not so great, it turns out.We learned this week that the Consumer Confidence Index (CCI) slipped to 47.7 this month from 53.4 last month. Consumers’ perceptions of c

I remember why I wanted to be a trader; I was conditioned to believe the easiest way to make money was to stand near the cash register.The year was 1991 and capitalism was about to embark on a journe

Is Facebook taking over the planet? Web-analytics firm Alexa ranks Facebook as the second-most popular Internet property in the world behind Google (GOOG), while Compete puts it at number three.Googl