Week in review: Best Buy takes a tumble

The following is a roundup of my recent stories from Investor’s Business Daily at Investors.com and Click, IBD’s Tech Blog.

Apps for Google’s Android mobile operating system are tricky to count. Estimates range from 100,000 to 200,000. Half get fewer than 50 downloads. (Dec. 16, 2010)

Best Buy shares are pounded after the company badly misses Q3 targets and lowers guidance for Q4.
Wall Street has a “management credibility issue” with Best Buy, one analyst says. (Dec. 14, 2010)

Dell hopes to do with Compellent Technologies what it did with EqualLogic.
The acquisition is Dell’s second big data-storage deal in two years. (Dec. 13, 2010)