Verizon Earnings: What to Watch
Verizon Communications (NYSE: VZ) will report its first-quarter earnings before the bell on Tuesday. Following mixed results in the fourth quarter, when Verizon beat on the top line but fell short on the bottom line, analysts are expecting $1.11 in EPS on revenue of $31.22 billion, on average. But for investors that really want to […]
eBay Throws Wrench Into Walmart’s Plan to Buy Flipkart
Acquiring Indian online marketplace Flipkart isn’t going to go smoothly for Walmart (NYSE: WMT). After making overtures to purchase a majority stake of the service and performing its due diligence, Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) was reportedly ready to make a competing offer for it, raising the specter of a costly bidding war. While that seems to […]
Should Intel Corp. Spin Off Its Factories?
For many years, chip giant Intel’s (NASDAQ: INTC) internal chip manufacturing technology had been a source of strength. The company’s teams consistently developed more advanced technologies than what the competition could and brought those technologies to market earlier than they did. Over the last five years, though, the company’s manufacturing technology has gone from an […]
Why Skechers USA Inc. Stock Plummeted Today
What happened Shares of Skechers USA Inc. (NYSE: SKX) fell more than 26% on Friday after the footwear company announced solid first-quarter 2018 results, but followed with disappointing forward guidance. Skechers’ quarterly sales grew 16.5% year over year, to $1.25 billion, which translated to 25.2% growth in net income, to $117.7 million, or $0.75 per […]
Apple offers to replace swollen batteries in certain MacBook Pros
On Friday, Apple announced that it would be replacing the batteries of select 13-inch MacBook Pros after it was determined that a component was causing some of the batteries to swell. Apple said that the flaw, which only affects MacBook Pros without touch bars, was not a safety issue. The Cupertino company did not give […]
NASA reveals its plans to have astronauts orbiting the moon by 2025
2019 will likely be a busy year for NASA. At the Space Symposium conference in Colorado Springs, Colorado, Associate Administrator William Gerstenmaier announced that the agency will begin awarding contracts for its lunar “Gateway” program, with a goal of having four astronauts in orbit around the moon by 2025. Bloomberg reports that NASA has begun […]
Tiny dents in solar cells could make them more efficient than ever
Looking for a way to make solar panels more efficient? Why not try putting a dent in them? No, it’s not a “fix the TV by banging your hand on it” solution, but an actually demonstrable discovery from researchers at the United Kingdom’s University of Warwick. This isn’t something you could do with your own […]
The LG G7 smartphone: News, rumors, and everything we know
LG pulled out all the stops to deliver one of 2017’s best smartphones in the G6. With its breakthrough design, massive display for its size, excellent wide-angle camera, and dependable performance, it was a return to form for the company that had something of a misstep with 2016’s G5. Almost as soon as the LG […]
Kamloops artist to compete in ‘World Cup’ of floral design
‘There’s more to it than making … something in the shop that would go out for a birthday,’ says Paul Jaras A Kamloops floral artist is heading to the World Cup of floral design competitions. Paul Jaras will represent Canada at the 2019 FTD World Cup, a weeklong event in Philadelphia that will pit him […]
Pillowcases for sick kids: ‘It’s heartwarming’
Volunteers get together to socialize and put a smile on children’s faces About 20 women, and a few men, sat side-by-side cutting fabric, sewing and bagging colourful pillowcases Saturday afternoon. The volunteers gather twice a year to make hundreds of pillowcases for sick children in the two Moncton hospitals. Organizer Eleanor Weldon said she stores […]