Tablet Sales To Soar To 119 Million This Year
Tablet PC sales will reach 119 million units this year, according to research firm Gartner. Apple is by far the dominant player in the market, and Gartner forecast that will be the case for…
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The Sony (NYSE: SNE) train wreck continues. The Japanese company has appointed a new CEO and will fire 10,000 workers. But, annual earnings for the year which just ended are much worse than expected.…
Apple iPhone 5 Almost Here?
There is more speculation about the release of the new Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone 5 than about who will win the presidential election. Both may be settled at about the same time. Companies which…
Another Powerful Case to Fire Best Buy CEO
Investors have plenty of reasons to want disoriented Best Buy (NYSE: BBY) CEO Brian J. Dunn to be dismissed. Dunn has lost his way as he tries to find a path to compete online with firms like…
The Death of Bookstores Accelerates
Owners of bricks-and-mortar bookstores, from Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) to independent shops on many city corners, have hoped that the American love of physical books eventually would stem the move of readers to…
Bad News: SanDisk Guides Flash Pricing & Demand Lower (SNDK, MU, CODE)
SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK) has just provided a “business update” which is actually nothing less than an earnings warning. With this being the leader in flash memory it is going to spill over into…
Meet The $1,001 Apple Share Price Target (AAPL)
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) is no stranger to analysts ratcheting their price targets higher and higher. While one case was recently made for Apple shares going to $1,650 by the end of 2015, a…
Apple Overly Dominates S&P 500 Performance, Still Lags Some Index Titans (SPY, AAPL, MSFT, XOM, SHLD, BAC, NFLX)
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) has one more bit of evidence that it is acting as if it was its own stock index. Its exceptional share performance is worth a substantial portion of the overall…
Past Failure as a Key to Future Trouble: Google, Best Buy and RIM
Three companies recently announced plans to improve their fortunes. Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) will launch its own tablet PC to challenge the Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPad, the Wall Street Journal reports. Best Buy (NYSE: BBY)…
The Crazy $1,650 Apple Stock Call (AAPL)
The race for the $1,000 share price is still underway, but one call on Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) almost sounds as though Apple-mania is in full swing. Shares hit a new all-time high today…
Google to Launch $150 Tablet in Late Spring (GOOG, AAPL, AMZN)
Speculation continues to grow that Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) will release a tablet device later this year and join the gaggle of competitors chasing the iPad from Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL). The New York…
Nokia’s Cheap $99.99 Smartphone
NokiaNokia’s (NYSE: NOK) new flagship smartphone, the Lumia 900, will not carry a premium price in the U.S. The smartphone’s retail price will be as low as $99.99 and AT&T (NYSE: T) will begin to…
The Stock Race to $1,000: Apple, Google, and Priceline (AAPL, GOOG, PCLN, BRK-A)
Many investors cannot mentally buy high-priced shares. It was not really an accident that Warren Buffett split the A and B shares of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A). Logic and mental blocks aside, three key stocks…
Troubled HTC Launches New Smartphone
HTC was the hottest smartphone company in the world not long ago. Its recent earnings and manufacturing figures show it has lost some of its competitive edge. It has been badly damaged by the success of…
Can Asian Franchise Growth Save RadioShack? (RSH)
RadioShack Corporation (NYSE: RSH) is putting its hope that international growth will drive a long overdue and hoped-for turnaround. The company has announced a very large franchise growth pact under a master development agreement…