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Apple Earnings and the Value of Old Tech

Posted: January 25, 2012 at 6:37 am

Apple’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) extraordinary earnings and the size of its iPhone sales helped move its market cap well above $400 billion. The press constantly reminds readers that this is greater ...
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Nokia Falls on Weak Supplier Outlook (NOK, STM, ERIC, MSFT)

Posted: January 24, 2012 at 2:03 pm

Shares of Nokia Corp. (NYSE: NOK) are tumbling today following a glum forecast from one of the company’s main chip suppliers. ST-Ericsson, a joint venture between STMicroelectronics N.V. (NYSE: STM) ...
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Microsoft 1, Google 0

Posted: January 20, 2012 at 8:43 am

It was no accident that Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) earnings were good and Google’s bad (NASDAQ: GOOG). The assumption that search is one of the best businesses in the world has ...
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Dell Too Late to Tablet Market

Posted: January 11, 2012 at 6:56 am

Dell’s (NASDAQ: DELL) habit of coming to market with products well after its competitors do  continues. Reuters reports that the PC company will launch a tablet later this year. Dell ...
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Best and Worst Run Companies in America

Posted: December 8, 2011 at 6:26 am

Many American companies have done incredibly well this year. A number posted extraordinary financial results in 2011. Others have launched products that revolutionized markets. Of course, many big public corporations ...
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Xbox Live Challenging Cable Supremacy? (MSFT, AAPL, GOOG, CMCSA, TWC, VZ, CVC, SSNLF, LOGI)

Posted: December 5, 2011 at 10:44 am

Tomorrow’s launch of an upgrade to Xbox Live from Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) is the latest shot in the battle for control of US TV sets. The Redmond giant isn’t ...
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Cisco and the Zettabytes Internet

Posted: November 30, 2011 at 6:18 am

Almost no one knows what a zettabyte is. Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO) uses the term to measure the volume of data center IP traffic. According to the router giant, “Annual ...
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Tech Wholesalers’ Growth Plans Could be Stymied (TECD, IM, SNX, ARW, AVT)

Posted: November 21, 2011 at 11:13 am

The weak economic forecast for 2011 and 2012 appears to have weighed unevenly on electronics and computer wholesalers. Tech Data Corp. (NASDAQ: TECD) reported missed earnings and revenue estimates this ...
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Oracle Hammers on HP, Intel Over Chip Plans (ORCL, HPQ, INTC)

Posted: November 21, 2011 at 9:49 am

Oracle Corp. (NASDAQ: ORCL) has turned up the heat in a lawsuit filed last May by Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ) seeking to require that Oracle meet what HP says are ...
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What’s Important in the Financial World (11/4/2011) MF Global Scandal, Groupon IPO, AMD Layoffs

Posted: November 4, 2011 at 6:32 am

The fate of Greece remains undetermined. Rumors are that Prime Minister George Papandreou will leave as part of a brokered agreement to get the opposition party to support austerity measures. ...
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Expected Price Gains for Chip Maker Stocks (INTC, AMD, TXN, BRCM, MRVL, XLNX, AMAT, ARMH, NVDA, QCOM)

Posted: October 26, 2011 at 3:11 pm

Nearly every forecast for PC sales indicates slower growth in desktop and laptop sales, waning sales of netbooks, and rising, if not booming, sales for mobile devices like smartphones and ...
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What’s Important Today (10/26/2011) Nokia’s New Phone, Berlusconi’s Trouble, Luxury Cars

Posted: October 26, 2011 at 6:37 am

Nokia's new Microsoft smartphone: Today will be remembered as the day that Nokia (NYSE: NOK) began an historic turnaround, or when it lost its bet on new smartphones that run ...
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What Does Intel’s Outlook Mean for PC Makers? (INTC, DELL, HPQ, AAPL, GOOG)

Posted: October 19, 2011 at 11:01 am

For the sixth straight quarter, Intel Corp. (NASDAQ: INTC) has posted record sales, partly due to a 22% increase in sales to PC makers. Does that indicate that the PC ...
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Apple Sets Sales Record: Blackberry’s Waterloo (AAPL, RIMM, SSNLF)

Posted: October 17, 2011 at 11:29 am

The iPhone 4S topped 4 million sales in its first weekend of availability, according to maker Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL). On  the other end of the continent, Waterloo, Ontario-based Research ...
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Why Would Sony Want Sony-Ericsson?

Posted: October 7, 2011 at 6:31 am

Sony-Ericsson is one of the great losers in the smartphone race, which has largely been won by Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) and Google’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) Android-based phones. Yet, Sony (NYSE: SNE) ...
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