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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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Steve Jobs and the Freedom of the American Business System

Posted: October 6, 2011 at 6:29 am

Steve Jobs was the greatest genius of the American technical age, which started with the launch of the PC and the operating systems that ran it. He was uniquely American, ...
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Amazon Makes Nothing On New Kindle Fire

Posted: September 30, 2011 at 8:58 pm

Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) makes no money on its new Kindle Fire tablet PC. That may be a sign that it will seek to take market share from Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) ...
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Companies Where Employees Are Losing Hope

Posted: September 19, 2011 at 6:25 am

Some companies become so badly damaged because of changes in the competitive markets or due to poor management decisions that their employees lose hope. This may be due to the ...
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Cisco–One Of The Largest US Layoffs Of The Year?

Posted: July 11, 2011 at 1:34 pm

Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO), one of the largest tech firms in the U.S. with a market cap of $85 billion and annual sales of $40 billion, will lay off 5,000 to ...
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Is John Chambers Too Old To Fix Cisco?

Posted: April 6, 2011 at 4:52 am

CEO years are like dog years. Most chief executives at large corporations are fortunate if they last a decade on the job. Cisco's (NASDAQ: CSCO) CEO John Chambers, who has ...
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Ten Big Tech Stocks That Have Outperformed Apple This Year

Posted: April 4, 2011 at 12:57 pm

There are ten major technology stocks that have outperformed Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) this year. Apple's earnings will be announced shortly, and although some analysts are still raising earnings estimates and ...
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The 10 Companies That Will Save The American Economy

Posted: March 25, 2011 at 4:31 am

America lost its lead as the world’s top manufacturer to China. That is in part the basis of the argument that China’s Gross Domestic Product will pass America’s sometime before ...
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An Apple iPad 2 Parts Shortage

Posted: March 17, 2011 at 5:08 pm

Hardware industry research firm iSuppli has issued a report which says that Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL) may run short on some parts used to build the iPad 2. The aftermath ...
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America’s Ten Biggest Corporate Turnarounds

Posted: February 3, 2011 at 3:34 am

Corporate turnarounds are almost never engineered by a single person. A CEO who takes a failing company and makes it successful again obviously got help from management, a board, along ...
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Dell: Bad Business Practices Trump Earnings

Posted: November 19, 2010 at 5:32 am

Dell (NYSE: DELL) reported especially strong earnings for its last quarter. Revenue was up 19% to $15.4 billion. Net income rose 144% to $822 million. CEO Michael Dell was bold ...
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