The increasing complexity of smartphone hardware may be generating investing opportunities. But investors need to have a clear idea of what exactly counts as hardware and who is doing it well, so in a two-part series, I will look at these to aspects, and in Part II look at
On Sunday at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, Samsung announced the release of two new smart watches called Gear 2 and Gear 2 Neo. Unlike their predecessor smart watch from Samsung, which was powered by Android, these new models use the Tizen operating system. To date most of Samsung’s mobile
This post was just published on ZYX Buy Change Alert. Consider starting a 25% tranche in EBAY. EBAY has been undervalued. The trigger for the trade is Icahn redeploying capital from AAPL to EBAY. Buy zone is $54-55.50. The stock is at $55.10 as of this writing in the pre-market. Target zone is $68 to $73. No
The designer of processors for Apple’s iPhone, United Kingdom-based ARM Holdings, reported earnings Tuesday in a mostly positive call, but there was one comment with regard to a drop in future high-end smartphone sales that may give potential buyers of Apple pause. The reason I pay a lot of
T-Mobile (TMUS) got the ball rolling with no contract plans and much cheaper plans than AT&T, something it publicized in the Tim Tebow Super Bowl commercial Sunday evening. Today AT&T fired a big bazooka, not so much at T-Mobile but at Verizon. It makes sense because the name of the
The incredible multi-year iPhone run across the globe has ended. Apple’s earnings report and conference call make the conclusion unmistakable. My conviction was so strong that I did not hesitate from penning a column explaining the fundamentals behind the conclusion. It is true that Apple AAPL makes many products other than iPhones. However, from
Apple (AAPL) reported earnings after the market close. The Apple stock ended the regular session at $550.50. In the after-hours it has touched $501, down about 8%. As I listened to the conference call, just like I have listened to every conference call since before the launch of iPhone, I could
Back in November of 2013, I explained in detail the rationale for a sapphire screen on Apple (AAPL) iPhone 6 in my column on Forbes titled Sapphire Screen For iPhone 6 Could Be A Real Gem. Since then, media has picked up on the story. Now there is a new twist that
Apple will report earnings after the market close on Monday January 27. My battle plan has changed after Samsung just provided weak guidance. Fourth quarter results for Samsung were mostly in line. Earnings came at 8.3 trillion won and revenues came at 59.7 trillion won. In Seoul South Korea, Samsung
On Wednesday after the close, eBay disclosed that Carl Icahn has proposed a spin-off of PayPal from eBay. The initial reaction of the stock market was euphoric, with eBay stock jumping to $61.30 in after-hours trading from its closing price of $54.41. Not so fast, even though in my view Icahn is