The 60 Most Promising Chinese Companies
Hong Kong-based The Asset magazine recently published a list of the most promising Chinese companies. According to their study, these companies have the potential to rise from national/regional leaders into global champions.
The list was compiled from among the 300 companies that are mainly listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange based on a survey conducted [...]
Buy SunPower… and Antacid: Analyst
SAN JOSE, Calif. (TheStreet) — It’s not every day that an upgrade on a stock comes with a secondary recommendation to purchase antacid, but such is the case with Pacific Crest Securities’ upgrade of SunPower(SPWRA Quote) to outperform today.
Even more striking, the upgrade went directly from underperform — itself just issued during the summer — [...]
Google set to map the world — and push out GPS makers as a result?
Google (GOOG) changed the game of many global GPS appliance makers this month by announcing a completely free and quite capable GPS product as part of the Motorola Droid handset announced and now being sold by Verizon Wireless.
In what seems to be the norm for Google, it is once again disrupting an entire market by [...]
Apple: From Zero to 17.1 Percent Smartphone Share in 2.5 Years
Lest there be any doubt that Apple’s iPhone is redefining the smartphone market, consider this: In less than two and a half years, the device has managed to claim nearly a fifth of the worldwide market for smartphones.
According to new data released this week by Gartner, Apple shipped some 7.04 million iPhones in the third [...]
Google eyes China as Baidu fumbles
SAN FRANCISCO/SHANGHAI (Reuters) – In 2005, China administered a spelling test that asked respondents to spell “Google” for a search market report: only 60 percent took the test and more than 20 percent got it wrong.
Four years later, Google Inc (GOOG.O: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz), whose whimsical name is synonymous with Internet search in [...]