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Posts related to ‘Consumer Electronics’

Microsoft Escapes Earnings Hangman (MSFT)

Posted: January 19, 2012 at 4:27 pm

Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) has posted its earnings after the close and the tempering of estimates before earnings seems to have been more or less the right call. The software ...
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2012 Offers Huge Auto Opportunity If Valuations Can Be Overcome (SIRI, P, F, M)

Posted: January 19, 2012 at 11:13 am

2012 may seem like a resurgence of the banking sector is afoot, but what about the resurgence of the U.S. auto industry.  The age of the consumer fleet is at ...
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More Evidence Of Semiconductor Recovery (LLTC, INTC, TXN, XLNX, ALTR, MXIM)

Posted: January 18, 2012 at 5:36 pm

Semiconductor investors have had to endure a lot of pain and a lot of volatility, but things may be on the mend.  Analog chip players were higher throughout the trading ...
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Noting Facebook as a Potential RIM Acquirer? (RIMM, GOOG, AAPL, AMZN, MSFT)

Posted: January 18, 2012 at 9:11 am

Research In Motion Limited (NASDAQ: RIMM) has been the ongoing subject of takeover rumors and that has put in at least a near-term floor after the death spiral took away ...
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Top Brands in 2011 (KO, IBM, MSFT, GOOG, GE, MCD, INTC, AAPL, DIS, HPQ, NOK, CSCO, TM, AMZN, F, HMC, DE)

Posted: January 17, 2012 at 9:24 am

Brand consultancy Interbrand has issued its latest report on brand value, and while the top five did not change, a gap is opening between the fourth and fifth place finishers.  ...
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Apple Supplier List Revealing (AAPL, AMD, CY, BRCM, FCS, FLEX, JBL, VSH, TQNT, SNDK, ONNN, QCOM)

Posted: January 13, 2012 at 2:04 pm

For the first time ever, Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) has released a list of its 156 suppliers in connection with the company’s release of its supplier responsibility audit. The supplier ...
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2012 Outlook For EMS Sector Upside (BHE, CLS, FLEX, JBL, SANM, AAPL)

Posted: January 11, 2012 at 8:20 am

Most electronics manufacturing services outfits, EMS companies, have recovered handily from the lowest points in November, but most of these remain significantly off of their highs over the last year.  ...
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True Convergence: Taking Speech To TV (NUAN, AAPL, MSFT, CMCSA, TWC, T, DTV, DISH)

Posted: January 9, 2012 at 12:54 pm

Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN) is getting a much less of a reception than you might expect following on news that it is taking its Dragon speech recognition to the ...
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The 17 Most Important IPOs To Watch In 2012

Posted: January 6, 2012 at 10:04 am

The initial public offering market  in 2012 is likely to be much stronger than many anticipate. Despite the lingering uncertainty and the underperformance of many popular IPOs in 2011, this ...
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Private Equity Value for Best Buy (BBY, GME, WMT, AMZN)

Posted: January 5, 2012 at 7:35 am

After losing about a third of its value in the last year, Best Buy Co. (NYSE: BBY) may start to be thrown around as a private equity takeover name.  A ...
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Sirius XM Growth Train Continues (SIRI)

Posted: January 4, 2012 at 5:08 pm

Sirius XM Radio Inc. (NASDAQ: SIRI) managed to grow ahead of expectations.  The company added some 1.7 million new subscribers in 2011 to end the year with almost 21.9 million ...
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Co-Chairs May Finally Lose Their RIM Jobs (RIMM)

Posted: January 3, 2012 at 12:12 pm

It was just on Friday that we named Research in Motion Limited (NASDAQ: RIMM) as being one of the thirteen worst big stock stories of 2011.  This case is one ...
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The 13 Worst Big Stock Stories Of 2011 (BAC, DMND, FSLR, GMCR, HPQ, IPSU, SLV, KV-A, EGPT, MCP, NFLX, RIMM, SHLD)

Posted: December 30, 2011 at 12:02 pm

2011 was more or less a wash for stock performance when it was all said and done.  There were several great stories and there were many duds.  24/7 Wall St. ...
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CES Looks to Strong Consumer Electronics Data To Kick Off 2012

Posted: December 27, 2011 at 11:01 am

Consumer confidence in the broad economy may have improved ahead of the holidays, but the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in January has a good tailwind offering the expectation ...
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New Competition Threat for Qualcomm … Overrated? (QCOM, BRCM, NOK, DCM)

Posted: December 27, 2011 at 7:01 am

Qualcomm Inc. (NASDAQ: QCOM) is getting some new competition. While companies like Broadcom Corporation (NASDAQ: BRCM) and Nokia Corporation (NYSE: NOK) have had patent fights with Qualcomm in years past, a ...
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