Equities have rallied for a week straight. Image by AFP/Getty Images via The S&P 500 index closed above 1,400 for the first time since June 2008, amid a week-long rally in stocks. The index gained eight points to close at 1,402.47. The Dow Jones Industrial Averaged ended its climb up 39.17 [...]

pubblicato il: 15/03/2012 - 21:05

It has been making some encouraging progress and could be on the path to be become one of the top smartphone platforms in the coming years.

pubblicato il: 26/03/2012 - 21:45

Wow! Seems like a lot of issues here, right? Apple has more money than most countries on earth. What, they couldn’t afford a few extra weeks of product testing and quality control? They couldn’t wait until everything was perfect? They couldn’t come up with more incredible features to satisfy our never ending appetite for more cool stuff? They had [...]

pubblicato il: 26/03/2012 - 16:08

Because I'm in need of a bit of a Mass Effect break, here's a new infographic from the folks at Psychology Degree. They've boiled down much of the data about the social benefits of gaming into visual form, and some of the stats are definitely noteworthy. Benefits like problem solving and creative thought [...]

pubblicato il: 22/03/2012 - 14:24

VideoRidley Scott's Prometheus will hit theaters almost exactly 33 years after the release of Scott's most famous film, Alien. This is understandably generating a lot of buzz, and I am both extremely optimistic and a little bit trepidatious about the film (which made my top science fiction films to watch in 2012 [...]

pubblicato il: 19/03/2012 - 05:29

Here’s the rub though: will we ever get to a point where shareholders hold companies accountable for customer outrage when the customers are, well, wrong.

pubblicato il: 19/03/2012 - 00:47

VideoScience fiction film-making has fallen on hard times, though not for lack of money.  What has been missing from the genre is far more fundamental than money and in far shorter supply – originality. We’ve had Avatar, a groundbreaking film to be sure, but only because it raised the technological bar.  We can [...]

pubblicato il: 19/03/2012 - 06:46

While calling the unexpected drop in unemployment rate a "welcome" surprise, Bernanke warned that gross domestic product growth has not kept pace.

pubblicato il: 26/03/2012 - 19:26

Economic news from China last week overshadowed improving technicals for in many parts of the market, including the specific areas highlighted by MoneyShow senior editor Tom Aspray. Stocks took a breather last week, as fears over a slowing Chinese economy scared some out of stocks as well as crude oil, which dropped sharply. The latest data on [...]

pubblicato il: 24/03/2012 - 02:36

KB Home (KBH) announced that it lost $45.8 million, or 59 cents per share, down from $114.5 million, or $1.49 per share, in the same period last year. Revenue increased by 29 percent to $254.6 million. Orders dropped by 8 percent to 1,197 homes during the quarter. Competitors include [...]

pubblicato il: 23/03/2012 - 16:47