Sector Overview: Internet Stocks

Here is a quick glance at how the year was for some of my favorite Internet stocks.

Sector Overview: Media

If 2007 was an unpleasant year for the media industry, 2008 was no better. The economic headwinds have troubled both traditional and new media companies, and stock prices have slipped by 15%-60% over the year. Here is a brief analysis of the year that was for my top 8 media stocks. 

National Semi Leads Chip Sector’s Lowered Forecasts

Yesterday, National Semiconductor Corp. (NYSE:NSM) reported a weak second quarter. As the economic conditions deteriorated, the company saw demand for its products weaken. It has cut back its forecasts, as have leading semiconductor players, TI and Broadcom.

Sector Overview: Networking

The economic downturn has slowed down sales in the networking world: a recent report, “Service Provider Routers and Switches”, from Infonetics Research shows that sales of service provider switches and IP core and edge routers have declined 4% sequentially to $3.3 billion in Q308. Networking giant Cisco, which was the first to warn of an

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EDA: Bring Costello Back?

EDA stocks were not looking up when the market was good, and they definitely aren’t any better now that economic conditions are bad. It’s time to take another look at the EDA companies.

Media Stocks: News Corp, Viacom

Here is a quick analysis of a couple of media companies thqt announced rather lackluster quarterly results last month. News Corporation (NWS) had been on a roll till last quarter with impressive Q4 results. The Q1 results for their new fiscal were, however, disappointing.

Marvell Cleaning Up Amidst Uncertainties

Yesterday, Marvell (Nasdaq: MRVL), a leading chip maker with annual revenue of $2.9 billion, reported its third quarter results that beat estimates but missed its last quarter projections mainly due to weak demand in the PC market. 

Salesforce.com Shows Strength

Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM), the leading SaaS vendor, reported strong third quarter results on November 20 that beat Street estimates yet again in an increasingly gloomy economic environment: yesterday the National Bureau of Economic Research officially declared that the US has been in a recession since December 2007. Despite the challenging market conditions, Salesforce.com is set

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