It is widely known that the giants of the Chinese internet business areBaidu (BIDU), Sina (SINA), Sohu.com (SOHU), Tenecent, and UcWEb. However, Baidu operates the most popular Chinese search engine, dominating the market. It has about 80% market share, having benefited when Google (GOOG) shut down its Chinese search site and redirected visitors to servers in Hong Kong in 2010. On July 11th, [...]

Best Buy (BBY) has an enormous problem, threatening its very survival. The roots of this problem are deep, and it represents a change beyond the ability of the company’s management to change. Somehow this retailer must find a way to adjust, and quickly. The problem: Moore’s Law. With apologies to the flood of words that have been poured [...]

Merck (MRK) is one of the brightest stars in the pharmaceutical industry with an overflowing pipeline of twenty new drugs in phase III clinical trials. The new drugs cover a host of troubling ailments, including everything from insomnia and allergies to osteoporosis and HIV. Merck is expecting bountiful returns on its research and should be raking in [...]

AT&T (T) is a communications giant with a powerful array of network resources that include the nation’s largest 4G network. Although the company recently declared a quarterly dividend of $0.44 a share, its shareholders have had it pretty rough over the past few years. If revenue is not falling, Verizon (VZ) is having a shot at AT&T’s customers. [...]