Contrary to the growing optimism for a takeout, Palm (PALM) is a company with little revenue, huge losses, a messy financing situation, and an expensive stock that would appear to have few suitors. By all…
Research-in-Motion Ltd. (NASDAQ: RIMM) will be the biggest earnings released this week for tech investors because it will be a direct reflection on rivals Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL), Nokia (NYSE: NOK), and somewhat on…
Companies in the handset business envy RIM (RIMM) and Apple (AAPL) and covet their market share in the smartphone business. Analysts assume that the Blackberry and iPhone will slug it out, vying for the top…
Nokia (NOK) is by far the largest handset company in the world with a market share of 38%. It is strange that since the beginning of the year its stock has underperformed RIM (RIMM),…
One of the first rules students are taught at The Harvard Business School is that it is a bad practice to sell products at a loss and hope to make up the deficit on…
Analysts have said that Apple (AAPL) does not need Steve Jobs. Apple shares are up 60% since he took a break to work on his health with his doctors. Because the form of cancer…
Morgan Stanley does not think that the new Palm (PALM) will do much for Sprint (S). The reasoning is that the carrier will sell about 1.5 million units of the Pre in the first…
In a new research call this morning, Collins Stewart rated Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) to a Buy rating. The research call has some serious implications for Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) on the Android platform,…
Walt Mossberg, the tech columnist of The Wall Street Journal, made a good point recently. Smartphones like the Apple (AAPL)iPhone are not phones at all. They are miniature portable computers. Suddenly, there is not…
Verizon Wireless (VZ)(VOD) plans to flank the AT&T (T) Apple (AAPL) iPhone marketing plan by any means available. It will launch versions of the Palm (PALM) Pre, which has to be a blow to…
Nokia (NOK) is the world’s largest handset company. It has been late to the high-end smart-phone market, but it has distribution leverage all over the world because of its 37% global market share. One…
American companies are increasingly offering products for $1 or less. Some are among the largest firms in the United States such as Wal-Mart (WMT) and McDonald’s (MCD). Other are smaller but use big distribution…
Palm, Inc. (NASDAQ: PALM) has been on a tear of late. It was just Monday that shares were hitting fresh 52-week highs and that was after being one of last week’s winners on a…
Cellphone sales dropped worldwide in the first quarter, but concerns that Apple (AAPL) iPhone sales may have been hurt appear to be overblown. According to IT research firm Gartner, cellphone sales dropped nearly 9%…
The inadequacy of 3G networks to carry data and video for large numbers of handsets simultaneously is hurting the performance of the Apple (AAPL) iPhone. The problem only starts there. The weakness of 3G…