China Mobile has scheduled an event on December 18 and the speculation has been that China Mobile will introduce Apple’s AAPL iPhone. The Wall Street Journal reported this morning that China Mobile will take pre-orders for iPhones starting Thursday. It is easy to see how a superficial analysis can lead one to conclude that it
Today, Apple is continuing its move higher. The trigger is a report in the Wall Street Journal that Apple has signed a deal with China Mobile. The WSJ report shows that the traders were correct in looking forward yesterday and not reacting negatively to a subsidiary of China Mobile pulling iPhones from
Click here for an enlarged chart. These posts were published on ZYX Buy Change Alert. On November 26, 2013, the following alert was posted: A SHORT-TERM TRADE ON APPLE This trade is separate and distinct from the long-term position in Apple. AAPL is breaking out of heavy technical resistance in the
Click here for a bigger chart. After Apple AAPL stock had lost its momentum in recent months, it has spiked higher in the past two weeks and outperformed the S&P 500 by 8.8%. Here are seven reasons that Apple is moving higher again. The Incredible iPad Buzz It all started on November
My take from yesterday’s Intel INTC Investor meeting is that a big shift in CPUs for Apple AAPL iPhones and iPads may be ahead. Apple does not buy the CPU chip for its mobile devices from vendors like Qualcomm QCOM (QCOM) and NVIDIA (NVDA) but designs its own CPU chip based on ARM architecture. The architecture is provided by U.K.-based ARM
Apple’s iPhone Retina display may soon become obsolete. Apple’s AAPL iPhone 5S Retina resolution is 1136 x 640. Next year, competitors will have resolution of 3840 x 2160. The obsolescence is going to come far sooner than I had even recently expected based on information from Samsung’s Analyst Day. The new trouble for
This bull market is rewarding tech stocks in high-growth areas such as mobile, storage, big data and social media. In my back testing, technology companies in high-growth areas that beat consensus estimates of analysts for earnings significantly outperform the market. Here are three technology companies that reported earnings Thursday
Samsung introduced the Galaxy Gear smartwatch with great fanfare in Berlin, Germany, on September 4, 2013,. It was Samsung’s opportunity to prove once and for all that it is not simply a copycat of Apple. Initial expectations were high. As critics got hold of the smartwatch, they almost universally panned it. The
Shares of GT Advanced Technologies GTAT are up 257% in the past six months, and they have jumped 30% in the past two weeks since Apple AAPL announced that it was Apple is advancing $578 million to GT, and GT will employ over 700 people at Apple’s Arizona facility to manufacture sapphire. On the surface, the
Apple loves sapphire. The iPhone 5S has a sapphire cover over the fingerprint reader and also over the camera. Recently, Apple announced a multi-year agreement with GT Advanced Technologies (GTAT) to produce sapphire on a large scale at an Apple facility in Arizona. Under the agreement, Apple is advancing $578 million to