Administrative Law Judge Thomas B. Pender, of the United States International Trade Commission (ITC) has found that Steve Jobs’ invention covered by patent number 7,479,949 was violated by Samsung. Here is the abstract of the patent: A computer-implemented method for use in conjunction with a computing device with a touch screen display comprises: detecting one
On Tuesday, Apple (AAPL) made a number of product announcements including one for the iPad Mini, the fourth-generation iPad, a 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display and updated Mac Minis. To me it was striking from yesterday’s event that Tim Cook appears to be abandoning Steve Jobs’ strategies that made Apple so successful. Steve Jobs’
The Federal Reserve provides a gold mine of both medium-term investment opportunities and short-term trading opportunities. The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) holds eight regularly scheduled meetings every year. One of those is being held this week, with a rate decision set to be announced at 2:15 p.m. Eastern on
This post was just published on ZYX Short Sell Change Alert Consider taking profits on the entire tranche short from $33.75 right here in the pre-market around $30.88. Futures equivalent is $31.89. Continue to maintain the remaining 65% of the full core position size.
This post was just published on ZYX Short Sell Change Alert. Consider shorting a 10% tranche in the zone of $39.80 – $40.60. HAS reported good earnings this morning. The up move in the stock is a shorting opportunity for the long-term. The reason is that parents are spending less
(The Weekly Digest reproduces the morning capsules made available every morning before the market open in the Real Time Feeds to the paying subscribers.) FOUR DJIA COMPONENTS REPORT BELOW EXPECTATIONS October 19, 2012 Three DJIA components MSFT, GE and MCD report lower than expected earnings or projections. Market seems to be surprised but
(GOOG) was scheduled to release earnings after the market close. Inadvertently, earnings were released at 12:39 PM by its agent RR Donnelley (RRD). Google stock fell about 9% before it was halted. Both revenues and earnings were below consensus. To make matters worse, whisper numbers were higher than consensus. In
Cloud computing is hot. Even lay consumers who hadn’t heard of it only a year ago, not only know about cloud, but now they use it every day. If you are an Apple AAPL iPhone user, you are probably using iCloud. If you are a Google GOOG Android user and using
AAPL is a symbol of American innovation, but it has created more jobs in China than in America. “IPad, the Macs, the iPhones, they are all manufactured in China,” Candy Crowley asked in the presidential debate Tuesday night. “One of the major reasons is labor is so much cheaper. How
FreedomPop is a new start-up that plans to challenge AT&T (T) and Verizon (VZ) by providing free mobile data–500 MB per month. Both AT&T and Verizon have huge margins on mobile data because of the lack of competition. AT&T and Verizon use these big margins to subsidize Apple‘s iPhone, Google‘s Android and other devices. The big carriers provide