Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL)

How a Teen Monitoring App Leaked Thousands of User Accounts

Posted: May 21, 2018 at 11:00 am

The main selling point of a mobile app TeenSafe is that it offered parents a way to keep track of how their teenage children were using their smartphones. Now, it ...
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Apple as a Service, Part 4: New Product Categories

Posted: May 17, 2018 at 12:10 pm

By Gene Munster of Loup Ventures In case you missed them, here are Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3. Optionality around new product and service categories is the 4th ...
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Apple as a Service, Part 3: Capital Return a Lever to Move Shares Higher

Posted: May 16, 2018 at 1:30 pm

By Gene Munster of Loup Ventures In case you missed them, here's Part 1 and here's Part 2 of the four-part series. Apple’s capital return framework is the 3rd of ...
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6 Most Important Things in Business Today

Posted: May 16, 2018 at 5:06 am

Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) Prime members will get special deals from its Whole Foods business. According to Reuters: Amazon.com Inc and Whole Foods Market are making a surgical strike in ...
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As Apple Heads to $1 Trillion Market Cap, Big New Changes Coming

Posted: May 15, 2018 at 9:46 am

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) is on the verge of being the first $1 trillion market capitalization company, which is stunning when you consider that at the turn of the century ...
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Apple as a Service, Part 2: Services Offer Growth, Visibility, and Profitability

Posted: May 15, 2018 at 8:40 am

By Gene Muster of Loup Ventures Here is Part 1 of a four-part series. Apple Services is the 2nd of 4 pillars to our Apple as a Service thesis. It ...
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Apple as a Service, Part 1: Entering a Period of Greater iPhone Visibility

Posted: May 14, 2018 at 10:40 am

By Gene Munster of Loup Ventures Our perspective that the iPhone will be a stable business for the next few years will be the most controversial of the four pillars ...
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Amazon Sharply Cuts Price of Alexa-Powered Echo

Posted: May 13, 2018 at 8:01 am

Among Amazon.com Inc.'s (NASDAQ: AMZN) efforts to distribute its Alexa "virtual assistant" is its own Echo hardware. Amazon slashed the price of the Echo from $99.99 to $84.99, at least ...
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Why Goldman Sachs and Apple Will Launch a New Credit Card

Posted: May 11, 2018 at 10:55 am

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE: GS) and Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) shocked the world when they announced that they are planning to introduce a new joint credit card. The duo ...
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6 Most Important Things in Business Today

Posted: May 11, 2018 at 4:44 am

Cisco Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO) has stopped marketing on Alphabet Inc.'s (NASDAQ: GOOGL) YouTube. According to Reuters: Network gear maker Cisco Systems Inc is pulling all online ads from YouTube ...
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Why Short Sellers Don’t Matter to Apple

Posted: May 10, 2018 at 10:35 am

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) is the 14th most shorted stock traded on the Nasdaq. For the period that ended April 30, investors were short 51 million shares. While short sellers ...
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The 6 Most Shorted Nasdaq Stocks

Posted: May 10, 2018 at 7:00 am

When the first-quarter earnings reporting season kicked off in the middle of last month, it looked at first like the overall solid results might provide a boost for the faltering ...
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6 Most Important Things in Business Today

Posted: May 8, 2018 at 5:03 am

The controlling owners of NASCAR may sell the company. According to Reuters: The majority owners of NASCAR, the company which operates the namesake U.S. car-racing series and other motorsport events, ...
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Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting: Buffett Promises More of the Same

Posted: May 6, 2018 at 10:33 am

The annual shareholders' meeting of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A; BRK-B) lived up to attendees' expectations and provided a lot of fodder for analysts and journalists to chew ...
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Fitbit Looks For A Way To Survive Without A Future

Posted: May 6, 2018 at 7:51 am

Wall St. continues to walk away from Fitbit (NYSE: FIT) as it becomes clearer and clearer that it has absolutely no future, perhaps even as part of another company. On ...
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