Tim Cook’s testimony before the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigation has given much publicity to Apple ’s ingenuity at avoiding taxes. Although Apple is in the limelight, it is not alone in using complex schemes to ...
SAMSUNG SCREENS MAY LEAVE APPLE’S RETINA DISPLAY IN THE DUST $AAPL $INTC $TXN
Apple AAPL has been very proud of its Retina displays. To a large degree, these high-resolution, crystal clear displays have contributed to the popularity of Apple devices. Tim Cook himself has promoted Retina displays by claiming them ...
HOW TICK DATA FORETOLD THE APPLE NEWS $AAPL
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On Wednesday, the news broke that two big-time hedge-fund managers dumped their Apple stock in the first quarter of 2013. Interestingly, an analysis of the tick data foretold the news ...
BILL GATES HAS XBOX 720 TO THANK FOR NEW WEALTH GROWTH SPURT $MSFT $AAPL $GME $AMX $AMD $DELL
Until 2007, Bill Gates was the richest man in the world by virtue of his stake in Microsoft MSFT. Then Carlos Slim Helu, the famous Mexican investor, aided by his stake in cell phone operator American Movil, ...
GOOGLE NOW RECOVERS APPLE’S SIRI FUMBLE $GOOG $AAPL
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When Apple AAPL first announced iPhone 4S, there was a nice surprise in it called Siri. Siri is a virtual intelligent voice assistant. Siri caught the imagination of the masses. iPhone 4S sales ...
PRICE ACTION SHOWS HOW MARKET HAS SOURED ON SMART PHONE STOCKS $AAPL $BBRY $NOK $GOOG $MSFT
There are days when price action in stocks provides more information than usual, all one has to do is to observe while leaving opinions at the door. Tuesday was one of those days. There were ...
TEN REASONS WHY SAMSUNG’S 5G IS MOSTLY HYPE $AAPL $BBRY $NOK $GOOG $T $QCOM
On Monday, Samsung made a 5G announcement promising download of 3D movies in seconds. Samsung did the most masterful job of spinning a test for the maximum public relations impact that I have seen in ...
SAMSUNG’S NEW 5G BREAKTHROUGH POINTS TO LONG TERM RISKS FOR APPLE $AAPL
A report from South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency about Samsung offering 5G service by 2020 caught my eye. Speculation about 5G abounds, so the title was not a surprise. What was intriguing to me was a claim ...
APPLE AND AMAZON SHOULD REJOICE AS MICROSOFT MORBIDLY EMBRACES NOOK $MSFT $AAPL $GOOG $AMZN $BKS
TechCrunch reports that Microsoft MSFT may spend $1 billion to buy Nook outright from Barnes & Noble NE. In the pre-market Barnes & Noble stock moved up as much as 30% and was still higher by nearly 20% on the day ...
MICROSOFT OFFERS NO APOLOGY FOR WINDOWS 8, PROMISES BETTER WITH WINDOWS BLUE $MSFT $AAPL $INTC
With Windows 8, Microsoft MSFT ignored the basic tenets of change management and paid the price. Now Microsoft is finally trying to correct the mistakes it made with Windows 8.
In my analysis, the big drop in PC sales ...
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