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Almost everything I read about gold in the media suggests that it's going higher. Many suggest that it will even double or triple in price. Some of the fundamental reasons given are inflation, govern

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

Open up that fortune cookie and the message couldn’t be simpler: The Chinese economy is going gangbusters.The boys in Beijing managed to drive home a near 9% real GDP growth rate in the third q

Motorola (MOT) has much to celebrate this week. In addition to debuting its highly anticipated Droid smartphone this Friday, Citigroup analyst Jim Suva upgraded the company's shares to Buy from Hold.

Sure, there’s been a lot of good news out there. Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke recently said that the recession was likely over. And yesterday, White House economic chieftain Larry Summers said

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

With all the hype and focus on smartphones in general and the iPhone (AAPL) specifically, there’s been another little-noticed phenomena taking place in the consumer-electronics arena: LCD TVs a

The G-7 meeting has concluded and the only accomplishment was yapping about the need for a strong dollar. Consider G-7 Finance Chiefs Campaign for “Strong Dollar”.   Finance chief

Surprise, surprise, surprise -- not: The oil-hype story as discussed in Ten Reasons to Ignore the Hype Over Secret Oil Meetings has blown sky high already, just hours after I wrote it.Russia Denies T