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What’s Important in the Financial World (5/18/2012) Samsung Galaxy III, China’s Property Falls

Posted: May 18, 2012 at 6:33 am

Property prices in China fell again last month in most of the 70 cities the National Bureau of Statistics measures. Forty-six cities had declines, a trend which has gone on for ...
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How Fast Things Change: Samsung Galaxy S III

Posted: May 4, 2012 at 6:38 am

The new Samsung Galaxy S III is a better smartphone than the Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone. Until a few days ago, the iPhone had no single worthy rival. Could that really ...
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Nokia Picks Wrong Carrier for U.S. Return

Posted: December 15, 2011 at 6:39 am

Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has returned to the U.S. smartphone market. Unfortunately, its partner is also-ran wireless provider T-Mobile. That will make it very difficult for the smartphone to get adoption. ...
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Nintendo Wii Failure: Echoes of Consumer Electronic Disasters Past

Posted: October 27, 2011 at 6:28 am

The failure of the new Nintendo 3DS and upgraded Wii have caused the Japanese company troubles similar to those faced by Motorola, Research In Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM), and Nokia (NYSE: ...
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In Apple’s Shadow, Amazon Labors

Posted: August 11, 2011 at 6:25 am

Amazon's (NASDAQ: AMZN) stock has outperformed Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) over the past year, past two years, and past five years. But, Apple is the leader, supposedly, in the creation and ...
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Mobile Phone Payments–The New Cash Register

Posted: June 28, 2011 at 6:31 am

Barely a week goes by without the release of research about all the new things that smartphones do now or will do in the future. The future profits of smartphones ...
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Apple May Beat Back Android With A 4G iPhone

Posted: June 16, 2011 at 7:28 pm

The state of the smartphone industry is based largely on the public's perception of how well the Apple iPhone does against the legions of Android handsets.  Some Apple fans are ...
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Media Digest (4/21/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: April 21, 2011 at 4:08 am

Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) earnings surpassed expectations and the company said iPad 2 units were backlogged (Reuters) BP plc (NYSE: BP) sued Transocean (NYSE: RIG) for $40 to cover costs related ...
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AT&T/T-Mobile Deal May Not Help Apple

Posted: March 20, 2011 at 3:55 pm

Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), the preeminent provider of smartphones to AT&T (NYSE: T) Wireless, may not get any new customers if its deal with Deutsche Telekom AG to acquire T-Mobile USA ...
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December US Mobile Sales: Microsoft’s Foothold

Posted: February 8, 2011 at 5:28 am

Data released by comScore about mobile phone sales in December showed that trends from earlier in the year continued. Sales of Samsung handsets bested all of its rivals in the ...
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Nokia: Shaking Up Officers On The Titanic

Posted: February 7, 2011 at 5:08 am

A number of news media have recently reported that Nokia (NYSE: NOK) CEO Stephen Elop will replace a large number of the top managers at the world's largest cellphone company. ...
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Motorola, Back From The Dead, Gives Apple A Run For The Money

Posted: November 19, 2010 at 1:55 pm

The Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone may appear to be invulnerable at the top of the smartphone food chain, but it may soon have company. ChangeWave reports "Among individual iPhone models, ...
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iPhone, Android, And 4G: Will People Carry Two Phones?

Posted: October 7, 2010 at 4:48 am

Verizon Wireless will begin to market the Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone next year, if media reports are correct. The large cellular provider will also launch a super-fast 4G LTE ...
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RIM Reports Above Expectations, Stock Up 6%

Posted: September 16, 2010 at 4:23 pm

Research in Motion Ltd. (NASDAQ: RIMM) today reported a 68% rise in quarterly profit, proving the BlackBerry maker is far from dead. The shares rose in after-hours trading. Profit was ...
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Apple’s Downfall, Android Sales

Posted: September 16, 2010 at 5:39 am

Research In Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) is no longer the major challenge to the sales of Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone. Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) Android-powered smartphones are. New data from ...
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