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Telecom & Wireless
Wimax’s Nine Lives
With the CEO out at Sprint (S), it looked like his dream for a nationwide WiMax network to blanket much of the US with high-speed wireless was dead. That might have killed…
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Telecom & Wireless
Qualcomm (QCOM) Beats Back Nokia (NOK)
Qualcomm (QCOM) announced that the Administrative Law Judge issued an initial determination terminating an investigation based on a complaint filed by Nokia (NOK) against Qualcomm. Douglas A. McIntyre
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Media
News Digest 10/22/2007 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Barron’s
According to Reuters, Halliburton (HAL) increased its third quarter profit by 19%. Reuters writes that Wal-Mart (WMT) will buy the part of its Japanese operations that it does not own for $350…
5:23am ET
Telecom & Wireless
Broadcom’s (BRCM) Plan To Bring Down CellPhone Prices
Perhaps the largest single problem in the handset market is that unit prices are falling sharply. Recent earnings releases from Sony Ericsson and Samsung show good growth in the number of handsets…
6:29am ET
Investing
Qualcomm (QCOM): The Incompetence Gets Worse
CNNMoney writes: "Chipmaker Qualcomm (QCOM) dueled Friday in federal court with its hiredattorneys over who shoulders the blame for what a judge called "grossmisconduct on a massive scale" at a past trial."…
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Telecom & Wireless
Qualcomm’s (QCOM) Future Starts To Dim
“Qualcomm will not be able to take its royalty model further, that’s absolutely clear,” said Dresdner Bank AG analyst Per Lindberg in London, who rates the shares “sell” and expects them to…
6:43am ET
Investing
Wachovia: Tech Analyst Coverage After A.G.Edwards Merger (AMD, INTC, TXN, DELL, IBM, HPQ, NOK, QCOM, BRCM, MOT, JAVA)
Yesterday was a bad day for chip stocks based upon Morgan Stanley’s key downgrades in the semiconductor sector. But today is a different day as many major technology companies have been initiated…
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Media
Media Digest 10/4/2007 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Barron’s
According to Reuters, the four largest players in global financial markets have grown at a breakneck pace in the last six years, and the assets they manage are expected to double to…
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Media
Media Digest 10/2/2007 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Barron’s
According to Reuters, most mutual fund companies side with management on proxy issues. The Wall Street Journal writes that Ebay (EBAY) is taking a $1.4 billion charge for Skype. The Wall Street…
7:47am ET
Telecom & Wireless
China TechFaith Scores on CDMA Pact (CNTF, QCOM, BRCM, NOK)
China Techfaith Wireless Communication Technology Ltd. (NASDAQ:CNTF) is seeing shares up drastically in early pre-market trading. Qualcomm Inc. (Nasdaq: QCOM) has granted TechFaith Wireless Technology Group Limited, a British Virgin Islands corporation…
7:11am ET
Investing
Qualcomm (QCOM) To Be Probed By EU
According to Bloomberg, Qualcomm "is being investigated by the European Union over allegations it overcharges Nokia Oyj, Ericsson AB and other handset manufacturers." One of the issues is whether the US company…
11:45am ET
Telecom & Wireless
Qualcomm’s (QCOM) Pipe Dream
Qualcomm (QCOM) wants things to go back to the way they used to be with its largest customer, Nokia (NOK). That was when the world’s largest handset company was paying Qualcomm’s then…
8:23am ET
Telecom & Wireless
Qualcomm (QCOM) Raises Forecasts
It seems that its legal problems with the likes of Broadcom (BRCM) and Nokia (NOK) are not hurting Qualcomm’s (QCOM) short-term business. The company said it anticipates fourth fiscal quarter Qualcomm pro…
5:57am ET
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Qualcomm Heads Back To The Gauntlet
Qualcomm (QCOM) has been to the ITC with Broadcom (BRCM) and lost a ruling that that may prevent the company from importing handsets or chips that violate Broadcom patents. The final punishment…
4:43am ET
Investing
EU And Microsoft: Google Is Next
Press and pundits says that now that the European Union and its courts have eviscerated Microsoft (MSFT), the next targets will be Qualcomm (QCOM) and Intel (INTC). The case against Intel is…