Google Inc.If you live in Brazil and want to purchase the latest Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone 5S, you’ll pay the equivalent of $1,585 for the 16 GByte model that costs about $200…
MicrosoftWhich company will rule the America TV experience? Will it be primarily hardware or software based? Will it be a cable company which relies on ancient set-tops and primitive pay per view? An online…
ThinkstockThe world’s biggest and best-known brands have pumped out mobile apps almost as quickly as the latest start-up. Their reasons for doing so vary: improving reach, increasing engagement, offering incentives and many…
Microsoft Sweden, via Wikimedia CommonsIn mid-June of 2003, Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) sold its first iPod. By September, 10 million songs had been downloaded from the iTunes store, and by the beginning…
courtesy of Google Inc.Tech giant Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) has announced the launch of the Google Wallet Card, a prepaid debit card. The new card will allow users to make purchases in…
courtesy of Apple Inc.When Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) released the iPhone 5S, the time buyers had to wait to get new phones lasted as long as two weeks. The figure has dropped…
Courtesy of Tesla MotorsEarlier this year, The Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) was forced to ground its 787 Dreamliners due to spontaneous fires in the lithium-ion batteries the company used in the aircraft’s…
JoeInQueens, via Wikimedia CommonsThe new Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone 5S has barely been on the market for two months, and the speculation about the features and price of the iPhone 6…
Courtesy BlackBerryBlackBerry Ltd. (NASDAQ: BBRY) has shot itself in the foot over losing so much ground in the smartphone wars. Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) has taken over market share, and Apple Inc.…
courtesy of Google Inc.Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) calls the six new stores it has opened to demonstrate its consumer products “Winter Wonderlab.” It is a shame the search company will only have…
ThinkstockFor those who believe that Samsung has beaten Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) handily in the global smartphone war, now there is more evidence that is so. Outside whatever court battles the two…
JoeInQueens, via Wikimedia CommonsCarl Icahn is an activist investor who is widely followed by the public. His antics in mergers and other activist efforts have been almost legendary in some cases. It…
Jon C. Ogg ThinkstockThe need for speed, whether wireline or wireless, continues to drive the direction of most of the top companies in the Robert Baird Communication Services and Technology coverage universe. The quality of…
courtesy of SamsungApple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) has enjoyed a huge success with the iPhone variations to date. Apple still has the world’s most valuable company status, but there is a problem rising…
ThinkstockThe Piper Jaffray consumer research team was given some help from the technology research team and has laid out an initial holiday road map for investors in a new research report. They…
