Research in Motion

This weekend in Barron's online: the prospects for Hain Celestial, Atlantic City, PPH and European stocks, as well as a look at jazz from HBO's Treme. Cover Story "Unnaturally Good" by Bill Alpert. Organic food company Hain Celestial (NASDAQ: HAIN) has built a small empire through two decades of...

There will be 3,600 fewer iPad Minis on store shelves now that thieves have gotten away with two pallets filled with Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) devices. According to the New York Post, the heist occurred at JFK after two men used one of the airport's own forklifts to load the pallets into a truck. The...

Samsung sold more than 97 million mobile phones in the third quarter, besting Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone by more than 74 million units. According to Gartner (NYSE: IT), nearly 428 million mobile phones were sold during the quarter. Approximately 23.5 million of those phones were manufactured by...

Following months of depressing developments, Research In Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) has something to brag about. Shares were up more than eight percent after the company announced that it had delivered BlackBerry 10 handsets to more than 50 carriers worldwide. The company said that this is a key step...

Roughly 16 years after the format was introduced, smartphones are now being used by more than one billion individuals worldwide. First popularized by Research In Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM), which created the BlackBerry line of devices, smartphones attracted worldwide attention after Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL...

Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) is only days away from releasing Windows Phone 8, the mobile counterpart to its long-awaited PC and tablet operating system. Advertisements are beginning to leak online, but the general public has yet to be exposed to the Windows Phone 8 platform. Despite this, it seems as...

This past weekend in Barron's online: why Goldman Sachs has held up better than its competitors, the prospects for Trinity Biotech, Steelcase and the Kraft Foods spinoff, and what it means to be a leader of philanthropic causes today. Cover Story "Built to Win" by Michael Santoli. In the...

Research In Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) has announced a second quarter EPS of $-0.27 versus $-0.47, a sign that the company might have begun to turn things around as it reduces its losses. The company reported revenues of $2.9 billion, beating the $2.49 billion estimate by 16.5 percent. The company also...

As the month and the calendar quarter winds down this week, highlights on the earnings front include reports from Nike (NYSE: NKE), Walgreen (NYSE: WAG), Discover Financial Services (NYSE: DFS), Research In Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) and Carnival (NYSE: CCL). Analysts by and large anticipate per-share...

Research In Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) is celebrating Thursday after announcing that the judge presiding over its patent infringement trial with Mformation Technologies has overturned the jury's verdict, saving RIM more than $100 million. In July, the BlackBerry maker was ordered to pay $147.2 million...

Research In Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) may not have any major smartphone upgrades planned for 2012, but the firm is determined to continually update its first and only tablet: the PlayBook. The last update came in the form of a software upgrade released in February 2012. Thursday, Research In Motion...

Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has announced that it will add Groupon Now! (NASDAQ: GRPN) deals to its Maps application. The new feature, which is currently being integrated in the United States, (Groupon Now!'s geographical limitations prevent it from going elsewhere), will allow users to quickly access local...

Demand for Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) next-generation iPhone is higher than any other smartphone the company has released. In June, ChangeWave Research conducted a study on the demand for smartphones from the world's leading manufacturers, including Apple, Samsung, Motorola, Nokia (NYSE: NOK),...