VeriFone

VeriFone is trading up more than 5% this afternoon on the news that it will acquire Northern Europe's largest provider of payment and gateway services. According to VeriFone's own release, the company will spend approximately €600 million to acquire all of the equity of Point, a provider of...

Altera (NASDAQ: ALTR) and Kroger (NYSE: KR) are the only S&P 500 components currently on the schedule to report earnings this holiday-shortened week. Analysts on average expect the semiconductor maker to post earnings that are a nickel per share lower than a year ago. But earnings of the...

Altera (NASDAQ: ALTR) and Kroger (NYSE: KR) are the only S&P 500 components currently on the schedule to report earnings this holiday-shortened week. Analysts on average expect the semiconductor maker to post earnings that are a nickel per share lower than a year ago. But earnings of the...

Years before startups became the cool thing that all the “cool” kids were doing, Marc Gardner decided to leave his full-time gig behind and start a company of his own. It was a risky move, to be certain. But it has paid off tremendously. “Being a young entrepreneur, I thought it would be a great...

Things will be fairly quiet on the earnings front this holiday-shortened week as the spring earnings season winds down. Joy Global (NASDAQ: JOYG) and SAIC (NYSE: SAI) are the only S&P 500 components currently on the scheduled to report quarterly results this week. The latter is expected to post...

J.P. Morgan is out with its report today on VeriFone (NYSE: PAY), raising estimates on PAY. In a note to clients, J.P. Morgan states, "We're raising estimates to reflect stronger revenue and gross margin trends. We are increasing our FY11 and FY12 adjusted EPS estimates to $1.77 and $2.14 (from $1....