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Sales rise 3.3% at major chain stores compared with a year earlier. Back-to-school promotions and other deep discounts help boost figures, an analyst says. After a difficult month that raised fears that the economy could plunge into another recession, the nation's retailers offered a glimmer of hope Thursday by posting surprisingly solid August sales figures.

Steve Jobs' Apple TV announcement today highlighted the huge difference between his company's efforts in the living room and Google's forthcoming Google TV . Specifically, Google wants to turn your TV into a computer. Apple says people speci...

Apple chief executive Steve Jobs demonstrated a new version of Apple TV this morning that’s aimed at turning the device from a “hobby” (as Jobs has described it) to a formidable piece of the company’s product lineup. How d...

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These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research notes this Wednesday morning: Arch Coal Inc. (NYSE: ACI) Raised to Overweight at HSBC. Blue Coat Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: BCSI) Raised to Buy at Needham...

Shopping sprees come with a cost. Stifel Nicolas analyst Jordan Rohan this afternoon yanked Google (GOOG) from his firm’s “Select List,” cut his price target on the stock to $560 from $600 and trimmed his 2011 EPS forecast to $31.28 from $31.75, all in response to concerns that margins could come [...]

Photo: GM A Significant Drop Predicted It's all about supply and demand: According to Hideo Takeshita, an analyst at the Institute of Information Technology Ltd. in Tokyo, the price of lithium-ion batteries could drop by about 19% in 2010, whi...

CEO Steve Jobs At Apple's annual music event in San Francisco. Photo by Jon Snyder/Wired We know — the new Apple TV is really small, and it finally focuses on renting rather than purchasing television shows, integrates iOS devices ...

Mobile App Compiler OpenPlug Joins Alcatel-Lucent Maybe you love mobile apps - or maybe you build them yourself. Either way, it's big news that international mobile infrastructure conglomerate Alcatel-Lucent has acquired cross-platform mobile...

L.A. Noire 'Debut' Trailer Despite finally taking the wraps off of L.A. Noire earlier this year, Take-Two has decided to hold back the oft-delayed game once again. ...

# ifeelgassy No, you didn't misread the headline. Energy analyst Peter Beutel thinks the price of a barrel of oil would be just $10 if it weren't an investment instrument because we've got more of it than ever. [ CNBC ] More »

PeopleBrowsr shared a rather interesting report with us this week, looking at privacy related tweets during the center of this year's Facebook "privacy storm." The firm studied the public's reaction to Facebook's open graph-related ann...

The Microsoft Investor is a daily report from SAI. Sign up here to receive it by email . MSFT Down As Market Gets A Respite Americans' confidence in the economy improved slightly in August. That should be short lived. Share...

Steve Jobs, with the new Apple TV. Photo: Michael Copeland This is the spot for our live coverage of Apple's ( AAPL ) Sept. 1 music event. In sum, Steve Jobs delivered on most of the rumored new products and services. The headlines: A n...

We have had a god-awful run of Housing data. New and Existing Home Sales, Defaults and Foreclosure data, even the Case Shiller report — all have been utterly horrific. In light of this, I want to make the following announcement: Attention...

Even if newspapers migrate every print reader to paying online, they will still face big losses, according to one analyst. Annual income per...

Focus on the Family has a message for gay rights activists: stay off the playground. Candi Cushman, an education analyst for the James Dobson-founded group, told The Denver Post this weekend that gay rights advocates have inserted their agenda...

Filed under: Nationals , Sports Business and Media Former "Nasty Boy" Rob Dibble 's comments about Washington Nationals phenom Stephen Strasburg were apparently too nasty for the club to handle, as it announced Wednesday that it had severed...

After months of speculation, Apple CEO Steve Jobs finally revealed the new and improved Apple TV today. It has a lot going for it, including a low $99 price, redesigned hardware, and access to streaming media from the iTunes store. At the same ...

Yesterday, President Obama insisted that a coalition of Senate Republican legislators is playing partisan politics yet again. He told Americans that he knows exactly what small businesses need in order to start productively hiring, and that’...