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Robert Morgan

who has written 12 posts for ABH News.

Nov
12
2010

Bank of America, Walt Disney, Nvidia, SunPower, Finisar, JC Penney Stk Future Mixed before the Bell

U.S. stock futures are lower Friday morning as losses for Asian shares after renewed tightening fears for China. Futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 66 points to 11,176.00, while futures for the S&P 500 index declined 8.80 points to 1,202.30. Futures for the Nasdaq 100 moved down 16.75 to 2,155.75.
Bank of America [...]

Jul
7
2010

State Street, Family Dollar, Dollar Thrifty, SIRIUS XM Radio and Applied Materials Stk Future Mixed Before the Bell

U.S. stock futures point were weaker start for Wednesday, but were well off their lows of the morning, as investors remain concerned about the pace of a global recovery.
Major indexes have fallen in recent months following a steady stream of economic reports that have fallen short of forecasts.
State Street Corp., the third-largest U.S. custody bank [...]

Jul
7
2010

Bank of America, Citigroup, AIG, RBS, Microsoft and EMC Stk Future Up Before the Bell

U.S. stock futures were pointing to a weaker start for Wednesday, but were well off their lows of the morning, as investors remain concerned about the pace of a global recovery.
Major indexes have fallen in recent months following a steady stream of economic reports that have fallen short of forecasts.
Bank of America Merrill Lynch on [...]

May
20
2010

Advance Auto Parts first-quarter profit up 17%

Advance Auto Parts Inc. (NYSE:AAP) on Wednesday reported its first-quarter net income rose 17 percent helped by new store additions, better margins and higher sales.
The retailer of automotive aftermarket parts, accessories, batteries, and maintenance items reported first-quarter net income of $109.43 million, or $1.19 per share, during the 16 weeks ending April 24. That was [...]

Feb
11
2010

Panasonic launches HDC-HS700, HDC-TM700 Camcorder

Panasonic launches HDC-HS700, HDC-TM700 Camcorder : – Panasonic launched Tuesday HDC-HS700 and HDC-TM700, two new digital camcorders with 3MOS sensor technology. Both the newly-unveiled camcorders boast the capability of capturing action in FullHD 1080/60p resolution; and feature a 12x optical zoom lens.
The hard-drive-based HDC-HS700 (240GB) and flash-storage-based HDC-TM700 (32GB) also snap 14-megapixel stills and offer [...]

Feb
11
2010

Kia Motors launches Ray hybrid concept Car

Kia Motors launches hybrid concept Car : – Kia Motors America launched new Ray plug-in hybrid concept Feb. 10. The car, unveiled during the 2010 Chicago Auto Show. The result is the Kia Ray, a plug-in hybrid sedan that combines a laundry list of eco-friendly features with a futuristic design.
The plug-in hybrid is based on [...]

Feb
11
2010

Panasonic launches Toughbook H1 PC with Verizon, Sprint

Panasonic launches Toughbook H1 PC with Verizon, Sprint : – Panasonic is launched a Toughbook H1 Field tablet computer Feb. 10. But unlike the sleek, sophisticated Apple iPad, Panasonic’s tablet is a rugged machine built for some tough love. The device also support’s Qualcomm’s Gobi broadband technology that lets users connect and switch easily between [...]

Feb
11
2010

Oracle to acquire integration software company Convergin

Oracle announced Wednesday it had agreed to acquire Herzliya, Israeli startup Convergin which provides network integration software for the communications industry.
Convergin utilizes a J2EE-based service broker platform that allows communications companies to manage their services across a wide number of networks and varying application platforms. As expected, financial details of the acquisition, expected to close [...]

Feb
11
2010

Flickr’s co-founder launches Glitch (MMO) video game

Flickr’s co-founder launches Glitch (MMO) video game : – Flickr co-founder Stewart Butterfield’s start-up Tiny Speck announced its new online social game, Glitch.
A PC browser-based massively multiplayer online (MMO) game whose objective is to go back in time and change the course of world history.
The new 2-D, Flash-based game, called Glitch, comes from Butterfield’s [...]

Jan
27
2010

Google Nexus One gets patched to improve 3G coverage

Google says it will soon release a patch that will improve the spotty 3G coverage that has left many Nexus One customers frustrated.
“Our engineers have uncovered specific cases for which a software fix should improve connectivity to 3G for some users,” said a Google employee named Ivan in a Google Nexus One help forum. “We [...]