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Sony Activist Loeb May Bring More Problems Than Solutions in Japan

Posted: May 14, 2013 at 11:40 am

Sony Corp. (NYSE: SNE) is having an unusually good day on Tuesday. After having benefited from the Abe inflation pump from the Bank of Japan, now Sony ADRs have hit ...
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BlackBerry, Nokia Push New Mobile Phones

Posted: May 14, 2013 at 10:45 am

You can be forgiven if you forgot that BlackBerry (NASDAQ: BBRY) announced a new mobile phone dubbed the Q10 in its late January announcement that included the announcement of its ...
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Daniel Loeb Calls for a Breakup of Sony

Posted: May 14, 2013 at 6:55 am

Someone has finally called for Sony Corp. (NYSE: SNE) to rid itself of the one division it owns that has no relationship to consumer electronics. The company's movie studio is ...
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Wireless Devices Outnumber People

Posted: May 9, 2013 at 1:35 pm

The number of wirelessly connected devices now outnumbers the total population of the globe. The score is wireless devices, more than 10 billion, to people, nearly 7 billion. By 2020, ...
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Microsoft Mulls Acquisition of Nook Media

Posted: May 9, 2013 at 8:45 am

Almost exactly a year ago, Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) agreed to pay $300 for a 17.6% stake in a joint venture with Barnes & Noble Inc. (NYSE: BKS) that was ...
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Workforce Boost at Apple Supplier: Something New Coming?

Posted: May 9, 2013 at 6:40 am

Perhaps Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) will attempt to launch a blockbuster product soon. After months of worry that its suppliers in Asia have been idle, one of these companies has ...
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Apple Tops Exxon in Market Cap

Posted: May 6, 2013 at 3:00 pm

For most of the past two years, Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) held the top spot as the most valuable company in the world as measured by market cap, having wrestled ...
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Google European Patent Claim Against Apple in Jeopardy

Posted: May 6, 2013 at 2:38 pm

The European Commission’s (EC) competition committee today issued a statement setting for its view that Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) engages in anti-competitive behavior by seeking an injunction against Apple Inc. ...
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As Barclays Raises Apple Price Target, Should You Care?

Posted: May 6, 2013 at 12:10 pm

Wall Street may have done yet another damage to its image over the coverage universe in the shares of Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL). In what felt very similar to the ...
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U.S. Cellular May Have Game Changer with iPhone Launch

Posted: May 3, 2013 at 10:15 am

United States Cellular Corp. (NYSE: USM) is the "forgotten about" cellular carrier as it is not all over the country but a small player with 5.7 million customers in 26 ...
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Apple Avoids Tax with Debt Offering: Only About $9 Billion or So

Posted: May 3, 2013 at 9:50 am

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) made news this week with a record $17 billion corporate bond offering. What is so different about this offering is that it is meant to fund ...
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Barnes & Noble Nook Accepts Google Apps

Posted: May 3, 2013 at 6:45 am

Barnes & Noble Inc. (NYSE: BKS) may have gotten an investment for Nook, its e-reader and e-book operation, from Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) as the software company presses into tablets. ...
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Global Tablet Shipments More than Double in First Quarter

Posted: May 1, 2013 at 2:49 pm

Tablet makers shipped 49.2 million tablet devices in the first quarter of 2013, led by rising demand for the smaller screen devices like the iPad mini from Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: ...
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Apple Bond Sale Largest Ever

Posted: April 30, 2013 at 2:58 pm

We noted earlier this morning that Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) had hired Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank to act as book-running managers for the company’s planned debt issuance. The Wall ...
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More Favorable Ratings Agency Action for Apple Bonds

Posted: April 30, 2013 at 11:25 am

Just yesterday we saw a report from Fitch Ratings showing that Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) likely would be rated in the single-A corporate credit ratings. The report seemed very harsh, ...
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