Author: Jennifer Leigh Parker

Even if the BlackBerry 10 has a great keyboard, the company will have trouble competing with Apple without a much larger “ecosystem of app developers and devices,” says Scott Sutherland, analyst and managing director for Wedbush Securities.   Read More

Microsoft's investment in Barnes & Noble not only lit up the bookseller's share price, it fundamentally changed the company's ability to compete, analysts told CNBC Monday.   Read More

Two companies have teamed up to market fingerprint-based drug testing to police, prisons, and, they hope, American companies.     Read More

Deutsche Bank analyst Paul Sankey never expected a good earnings report from Exxon Mobil. So why does he rate the stock a “buy”?   Read More

Apple stock skeptics, and even the company itself, can no longer get away with its “typically conservative” outlook given sales projections in China, Peter Misek, equity research analyst at Jefferies, told CNBC’s “Squawk Box.”   Read More

Relative to the S&P 500, General Electric should give investors 'at least' double the return over the next two years, Jack De Gan, Harbor Advisory CIO told CNBC Friday.   Read More

A two-person surgical team has created a new, inexpensive bone-grafting device without having to go to big pharma.   Read More

Citigroup’s first-quarter earnings results left some investors disappointed, as the bank continues to struggle as a result of the financial crisis, analyst Gerard Cassidy of RBC Capital told CNBC Monday.   Read More

Google’s board has approved a 2-for-1 stock split, effectively lowering the already-low voting rights of average investors. But with its future earnings potential, analyst Mark Mahaney from Citi asks, so what?   Read More

Central banks around the world are battling domestic debt with monetary easing, effectively low borrowing rates, as their tool of choice. This has Pimco’s Neel Kashkari bullish on global equities.     Read More