A very few people have signed on online petition that they hope will pressure Apple to release an “ethical” iPhone 5–which would be the next generation of the smartphone. “Ethical” probably means…
Douglas A. McIntyre Best Buy Co., Inc. (NYSE: BBY) has two things working against it today, or at least two things that were not among the myriad of issues impacting it before the last half-day…
Chip designer ARM Holdings plc (NASDAQ: ARMH) posted revenues of $217.4 million for the company’s fourth quarter, handily beating the consensus estimate of $193.4 million. Adjusted net income also soared past expectations,…
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) may be criticised for a myriad of issues and it may be praised for a myriad of issues. Generally speaking, the investing purists wills ay all that matters…
Jon C. Ogg EU nations, led by Germany, have approved a permanent bailout fund, the European Stability Mechanism, which has 500 billion euros. But that does not mean a rescue for Greece. On the contrary,…
Douglas A. McIntyre The global wireless patent war that has engulfed Eastman Kodak, Samsung, HTC, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), RIM (NASDAQ: RIMM) Motorola, Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) among others took another turn today as a Germany court…
Online research gizmo firm Trefis says Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) is worth $550 a share. Since the estimate is based on a model and not much on human judgment, it may be worth very…
Douglas A. McIntyre Almost all investments rise and fall in price through time, and the same is true over the value of sports collectibles and baseball cards. The ‘investing’ rule in sports collectibles that has…
Whatever optimism investors might have had that the firing of the co-CEOs who ruined Research In Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) would cause a rally in the shares can forget it. RIM reached a…
Over the past two years, Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL), Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG), and Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) have increased their workforces by more than 50%. The biggest jump came at Web.com Group…
Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) sold 37 million iPhones in its last competed quarter. Most analysts could hardly believe it. The consensus on Wall St was close to 30 million Apple still has two…
Douglas A. McIntyre A number of media have accused Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) of using Chinese companies whose laborers are treated harshly by their employers as they make iPads and iPhones. Some writers have called for boycott. While a boycott…
Douglas A. McIntyre Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) has been successful in the market for personal computers for individuals for decades. The Mac has been pulled along by the popularity of, first, the iPod, and more recently the…
Recent stories in The New York Times have been critical of the offshore manufacturing processes of Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) and other US companies. Apple is the poster child, though, because it…
Paul Ausick AuthenTec, Inc. (NASDAQ: AUTH) has already seen a wild trading day and it looks like the move may have been exacerbated by day traders chasing headline news for any company signing the…
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