DIRECTV

The parade of earnings from major retailers begins this week with quarterly reports due from Kohl's (NYSE: KSS), Macy's (NYSE: M) and Nordstrom (NYSE: JWN). Analysts expect to see year-over-year revenue growth from all three, but lower per-share earnings from Kohl's. Many more retailers are...

Analysts expect to see double-digit per-share earnings growth from Agilent Technologies (NYSE: A), Apache (NYSE: APA), CBS (NYSE: CBS), Comcast (NASDAQ: CMCSA), DirecTV (NASDAQ: DTV) and Marriot International (NYSE: MAR) when they report quarterly results this week. Other prominent reports on the...

TiVo (NASDAQ: TIVO) is scheduled to report fiscal third-quarter 2012 results today, November 22, after the closing bell. The DVR pioneer continues to try and stem the tide of subscriber losses in this era of the cloud and streaming video. Investors will no doubt be hoping that analysts have...

If you like two-year cell phone contracts, get ready for a two-year commitment to Comcast (NASDAQ: CMCSA). According to IHS iSuppli Home & Consumer Electronics research, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) has the (obvious) opportunity to develop a “lucrative new business model” despite the “weak market...

Halloween and the Day of the Dead arrive this week. If analysts' forecasts are correct, there are only a few earnings reports that may scare investors. For instance, Alpha Natural Resources (NYSE: ANR) earnings are predicted to have fallen 93.1% year over year to $0.58 per share. Allstate (NYSE:...

The streaming video giant may have lost 800K subscribers, but that hasn't stopped its remaining users from devouring a ridiculous amount of bandwidth. At roughly two gigs for an HD movie stream, it's no surprise that Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) consumes 32.69% of U.S. bandwidth at peak times. The news...

If pirates ever need an excuse to steal movies, Comcast is here to help. Comcast (NASDAQ: CMCSA), the brilliant baffling cable company that acquired NBC, is slated to experiment with an idea that absolutely no one will care about: $60 movie rentals. Instead of spending $60 on a new video game (...

Charge more for content, that's for sure. If the Wall Street Journal's sources are correct, Google (NASDAQ: GOOG), Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN), Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) and DirecTV (NASDQ: DTV) are about to engage in a bidding war to win control of Hulu. Hulu, which more than doubled its revenue last year...

But isn't that chump change compared to what Hulu is or will be worth? The Wall Street Journal (via Business Insider) reports that Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) is still aggressively seeking ownership of Hulu. With a price tag ranging from a paltry $500 million to a questionably low $2 billion, Google...

Quarterly reports of note scheduled for this week include those from Archer Daniels Midland (NYSE: ADM), General Motors (NYSE: GM), MasterCard (NYSE: MA), Procter & Gamble (NYSE: PG) and Time Warner (NYSE: TWX), all of which are expected to post earnings growth, as well as Pfizer (NYSE: PFE)...