This summer brought big news for the tech world: Google (GOOG) finally cleared its last hurdle and closed its $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility. This buyout has been in the works since mid-August of last year and represents the largest wireless-equipment deal in over ten years. Motorola Mobility – best known for manufacturing Android-based smartphones like the popular [...]

Companies involved in the personal computing market have all taken some big hits in recent times, and Microsoft (MSFT), developer of the Windows line of operating systems, is no exception. The dismal PC sales numbers coming out of Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) andDell (DELL) were a painful blow, and Intel (INTC) and Western Digital’s (WDC) revenue warnings further hurt their collective stock prices. Hewlett-Packard has [...]

One of the bigger stories of the year was GE Capital’s announcementthat it would begin paying a dividend to its parent company General Electric (GE). This is a great sign that GE Capital, the company’s finance arm, has put the financial crisis behind it and is not only healthy, but apparently strong. Anytime you have cash to [...]

Cisco (CSCO) has an established, proven and reputed business in designing, manufacturing and selling internet protocol based networking. With the shrinking world and its need to remain connected, it is poised to rake in enormous profits for itself and its investors in the near future. Its data-based communication linkage for all types of media makes it [...]