Microsoft sold out of its Xbox video-game console in late December thanks to strong holiday-season demand, and may have product shortages in January and February as well, as the company’s Kinect motion-sensor device has boosted…
As big banks start reporting earnings, JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon is the latest exec to talk about dividends. Overall, Wall Street is expecting the big banks to post strong results, including improved credit quality and increased…
Semiconductor stocks climbed higher Friday following the financial results of bellwether chip giant Intel. But despite the robust results that beat Wall Street’s estimates, analysts expect the industry’s revenue growth will coo…
Verizon customers will likely flock to the Apple iPhone 4 when the largest U.S. carrier starts selling it in February. But many industry-watchers expect an iPhone 5 a few months later. And that could create a quandary for folks…
Meet Watson, aspiring Jeopardy champ. He’s a black rectangle with a globe avatar, and he absorbed 200 million pages of text to prepare for the game show.
Watson is the IBM (IBM) supercomputer sent to do battle with human contestants on Jeopardy. He a…