SmarTrend's Trend Spotter Sees Continued Upward Momentum on Shares of BT Group (BT)

Peter Chou, chief executive of cell phone maker HTC, says the Taiwan-based company is no risk- taker. But to a casual observer, that might hardly seem the case. HTC was the first handset maker to introduce a cell phone based on the Google-backed Android operating system, the G1 by T-Mobile. ...

Especially nasty housing downturn

Spain stands out in Europe's recession as it battles an especially nasty housing downturn and soaring unemployment. Spain's sagging economy has stung Telefonica, the country's biggest phone company. In the third quarter, its revenue fell almost 6% from a year earlier. Still, Telefonica has ...

Spanish telecom giant Telefonica's Q3 profit fell 0.5% to $2.99 bil. Revenue fell 5.7% to 20.9 bil, below views. Telefonica blamed weak Spanish demand for an 8% decline in mobile revenue. Meanwhile, British BT's EBITDA beat forecasts, aided by cost cuts, while revenue was in line with ...

Phone company Verizon Communications is taking on IBM, Cisco Systems, Hewlett-Packard and Amazon as well as telecom rival AT&T in "cloud computing," a fast emerging Web-based service that lets business customers ratchet up their computing power, data storage ...