Qualcomm

In a tradition that seems to have weathered even the direst financial news, some of America's top companies post practical jokes on April 1. From Google to Starbucks, the normally staid titans of industry are making the world just a little bit quirkier today.

You'd never know it from recent equity action, but fourth-quarter earnings season has so far been remarkably strong. Apart from when the news is bad, earnings reports have gotten the cold shoulder from investors so far this season.

It's the largest developer of chips based on its proprietary CDMA wireless phone technology, and it's now mining new lucrative markets. Of 38 analysts who follow the stock, 31 rate it a buy.

Cisco Systems Inc. (CSCO) posted a stronger-than-expected profit for its fiscal first quarter and said business was recovering as customers are buying more network equipment again. Its revenue outlook for the current quarter also exceeded Wall Street expectations. Shares rose over 3.5 percent in...

My Apple (AAPL) iPhone recently started delivering voice-mail messages a day late. But sometimes, I don't get them at all. Calls have been dropping more frequently and I find that surfing the Web using my iPhone, which operates on the AT&T data network, is a drag. Growing more frustrated with...

Antitrust and International Trade Commission probes in the U.S. tend to focus on tech companies such as Microsoft (MSFT), Qualcomm (QCOM) and IBM (IBM), and now the Justice Department is making another visit to IBM to investigate whether it has employed monopolistic practices in its mainframe...

Some of the companies making headlines today: eBay (EBAY) may finally announce on Tuesday the anticipated deal to sell its Skype Internet calling division to a group of private investors, according to the New York Times. The paper, which cited two sources, said a price was not disclosed, but in...