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Google has topped Forrester Research?s survey of consumers? favourite online brands, though respondents believe the company is untrustworthy. Forrester surveyed more than 4,823 US consumers to gain insights on favourite consumer online brands. According to the survey results 44% of consumers rate Google as their favourite online brand in 2009,...

According to a new Forrester survey , almost 80% of Internet users in the US and Canada would not pay for access to newspaper and magazine websites. Those users who would consider paying for content are mostly interested in subscriptions. Only a small minority of consumers (3%) is...

With a possible buyout of General Electric Co.’s (NYSE: GE) NBC Universal Inc. in the works, Comcast Corp. (Nasdaq: CMCSA) is adapting to a changing technological landscape.[More...]

Forecasts for holiday retail sales my not exactly be glowing but there’s a good chance that Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) - the world’s largest online retailer - will again buck the negative trend that has gripped the retail industry for the past year. Estimates for holiday retail sales this year range from a 1% ...

Spotlight On: Software and Programming The software industry is ever changing and subject to new mergers, acquisitions, partnerships and strategic alliances between vendors. The industry can be fairly described as consisting of tiers.  Tier I vendors serve the upper end of the market. Their products are for the Fortune 500, multi-location, and multi-national companies. These companies have complex needs and rely upon ERP systems. The major Tier I players are SAP and Oracle. Tier II vendors focus on companies that are fairly complex and large and require significant work but are not as large as the the Fortune 500. This may be the sweet spot of the software industry. The market is fairly large and the customers require fairly sophisticated product and support. Leaders in this market are Lawson, Infor, and[More...]

GM May Salvage Pontiac Car; CIT Void to Be Filled, More Expensive; Dell Expects Higher Q2 Revenue; U.S., UBS Lawsuit Delayed for Possible Settlement; U.S. Deficit Grows; Russian Investor Boosts Stake in Facebook; Microsoft Office Goes Online General Motors Co. is “actively” looking to salvage the relatively new Pontiac G8 from the ...

We are now more or less two thirds of the way through earnings season. This seems like a good time to revisit a screen we first ran about a month ago. Using the data we generate as we scan over 7200 stocks and ETFs at Alert HQ, we assembled a screen that is composed of stocks with the following characteristics: The stock must have shown sequential quarterly growth as well as year-over-year growth in both EPS[More...]