Filed under: JC Penney , Apple , Target Corp , Retail , Secret Shopper Nancy Pietschnig wasn’t at all excited when she first heard about J.C. Penney’s ( JCP ) plan to ditch most of their hundreds of annual sale events, dump their coupons, and just offer lower prices every day, with only a handful of regularly spaced sales a year.

Filed under: Technology , Media , Apple , Amazon.com Amazon.com ( AMZN ) turned heads last year with its economically priced tablet, but necks are apparently stiffening up these days. Tech tracker IDC is reporting that Amazon sold just 750,000 of its $199 Kindle Fire tablets during the first three months of the year, well off the 4.8 million units that it sold during last year’s fourth quarter. There are plenty of perfectly good explanations that account for part of the slide

Filed under: Technology , Earnings , Stocks in the News After seeing its stock fall in 10 of the past 11 trading sessions, Apple ( AAPL ) is reminding investors why it’s the world’s most valuable publicly traded company. Apple delivered blowout quarterly results on Tuesday night. Revenue climbed 59% to $39.2 billion, and earnings per share nearly doubled to $12.30 a share

Filed under: Technology , Investing , IBM , General Electric , Google , Intel , Microsoft , Berkshire Hathaway , Apple , Cisco Systems Leave it to Google ( GOOG ) to steal Apple’s ( AAPL ) thunder. Amid all the recent speculation about whether Apple would split its increasingly pricey shares — now topping $600 a share — it’s Google grabbing the spotlight and announcing last Thursday an effective stock split of its own . Google

Filed under: Company News , Technology , Microsoft , Nokia , Apple , AT&T A software glitch in some of Nokia’s ( NOK ) new Lumia 900 smartphones is leading to a sweet $100 wireless bill credit. The Lumia 900 hit AT&T ( T ) on Sunday as the flagship phone for Microsoft’s ( MSFT ) Windows Phone mobile operating system. Apparently, some of the earlier production units have a memory management issue that’s resulting in a loss of data connectivity