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Dell Wants To Challenge Apple In Tablet PC

Posted: March 19, 2012 at 6:35 am

Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPad has been pursued by several companies and the pursuit will become more heated now that Apple has released a new machine. Samsung has had some success with ...
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The Worst Product Flops of 2011

Posted: December 27, 2011 at 6:35 am

A number of incredible new products were launched this year. Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) introduced the iPhone 4S -- a phone with voice command -- and Boeing’s (NYSE: BA) 787 Dreamliner ...
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Nokia’s U.S. Make or Break

Posted: December 9, 2011 at 6:41 am

Nokia (NYSE: NOK) will soon launch its Lumia 710, a Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) mobile powered smartphone, in the U.S. Sales in the first week may well determine the fate of the ...
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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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Netflix and RIM Die One Customer at a Time

Posted: September 16, 2011 at 6:24 am

It may seem naive to say that Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) and Research In Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) have alienated their customer bases, which cost them both millions of users. It is ...
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A Mild Panic As Apple Share Price Slides

Posted: May 24, 2011 at 6:36 am

Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) share price is supposed to keep going up. Many brokers have price targets for the stock above $400 and some are as high as $450. The stock ...
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Today’s Best Market Rumors (5/16/2011) Glencore IPO, RIM Playbook

Posted: May 16, 2011 at 9:09 am

Updated throughout the day. Glencore raised the mid point of its IPO price (Reuters) Research In Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) will recall 1,000 PlayBooks (Engadget) Chrysler's deal to refinance its debt ...
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Media Digest (4/20/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: April 20, 2011 at 4:11 am

Reuters: Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) will begin to ship the new version of its iPhone in September (Reuters) Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) and VMWare (NYSE: VMW) both posted strong earnings (Reuters) A ...
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Media Digest (4/15/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: April 15, 2011 at 3:57 am

A sharp increase in costs hurt Google's (NASDAQ: GOOG) first quarter earnings. (Reuters) Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) is expected to beat earnings forecasts but mortgage costs will hurt its numbers. ...
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RIM: When 36% Growth Is A Disappointment

Posted: March 25, 2011 at 5:54 am

Research In Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) announced that its fiscal fourth quarter sales for the period which ended on February 26 rose 36% to $4.1 billion. During the quarter, RIM shipped about ...
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Media Digest (3/25/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: March 25, 2011 at 3:56 am

The Federal Reserve will hold press conferences four times a year. (Reuters) In 2006, Fannie Mae was warned about abuses in the foreclosure process. (WSJ) The Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPad ...
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Media Digest (3/23/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: March 23, 2011 at 4:07 am

Japan's markets fell on concerns about contaminated drinking water (Reuters) The US has stopped imports from the area around Japan's nuclear disaster (Reuters) The damage to Japan could cost $300 ...
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The Twitter-24/7 Wall St. Market Report (3/22/2011) RIM Playbook, $102 Oil

Posted: March 22, 2011 at 9:25 am

Twitter  has, by most estimates, 175 million members, which makes it one of the largest social networks in the world. All major media companies are on Twitter and some have ...
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Apple:King Of Tablets

Posted: December 15, 2010 at 8:51 pm

We published a story earlier on projections from Goldman Sachs that tablets are rapidly cannibalizing PC sales.  That story focused on the possible winners from such a shift in the ...
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Good, Bad, Or Irrelevant: New BlackBerry Tablet Three Times Faster Than iPad

Posted: November 16, 2010 at 4:50 pm

Verdict: Irrelevant The CEO of Research In Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) told the Web 2.0 conference that his firm's new tablet PC is “three to four times faster” than the iPad. Jim ...
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