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

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

The feature that is front and center in this year's back-to-school ad campaigns from laptop manufacturers is price. The introduction of netbooks -- small, pocket-book size notebooks for on-

CEO Steve Jobs personally oversaw the development of Apple's (AAPL) most innovative and best-selling brainchildren: the iPod, iPhone and MacBook. But while on his recent leave of absence, the Cuperti

As usual, Apple (AAPL) largely brushed off questions about a netbook on its earnings conference call yesterday. But is one actually on the way? The answer is no, and here’s why. 1. There’

Dell (DELL) is taking aim at Apple’s (AAPL) stylish MacBook Air. Dell says its new Adamo laptop is the world’s thinnest notebook - it’s 0.65 inches thick compared with 0.76 inc

Last year, Apple (AAPL) introduced a series of laptops with a reduced carbon footprint. Called "the greenest family of notebooks," the MacBook line is manufactured witho

Equity markets had their biggest rally this year after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke outlined steps to fix the banking industry in a morning address. His remarks, delivered to the Counci

What a day it was for the market. Turnaround Tuesday definitely lived up to the hype.Citigroup (C) came out and said they had 2 profitable quarters through the first 3 months of this year; all the ba

The stock market is on a tear this morning on the heels of a statement by CEO Vikram Pandit that Citigroup (C) has a profit for the first 2 months of 2009. In a letter sent to employees Monday,