Apple AAPL has managed to attract the first woman to its top ten executive team. The woman is Angela Ahrendts, CEO of Burberry Group Plc. The stock market clearly views Apple hiring Ahrendts as a loss for Burberry; as of this writing, Burberry stock in London is trading down about 5%. Ahrendts will become the
This morning Apple (AAPL) issued a press release with the title ‘First Weekend iPhone Sales Top Nine Million, Sets New Record.’ On the surface, every word in this title is true but digging deeper shows that the record may not be as good as it seems. The previous record
Since 1982, when Adobe was founded in San Jose, Calif,. its design and publishing tools were sold as boxed software at retail or under perpetual licensing agreements. In 1989, Adobe introduced Photoshop which dominates the market for graphics editing. In 2005, Adobe acquired Macromedia whose popular products were Dreamweaver for
Verizon just trumped Apple by orchestrating the world’s largest corporate-debt sale to date by selling $49 billion of bonds. In contrast, the previous largest corporate bond sale in the U. S. was Apple’s big bond sale in April, which, in hindsight, was a mere $17 billion. Verizon’s rush is investor’s
This post was published on ZYX Buy Change Alert. It is confirmed that Apple home button contains a sapphire crystal. There is no way to know at this time from which company Apple is sourcing sapphire crystals, however our estimate is that demand for sapphire crystals will go up by about
Yesterday, Apple announced two new iPhones, iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C. Today, at an event in Beijing, Apple announced new iPhone availability at two smaller carriers, China Unicom and China Telecom, but no deal with the largest carrier, China Mobile. Wall Street is venting its disappointment: Bank of America, UBS,
This post was just published on ZYX Buy Change Alert. There is strong speculation that Apple’s new high-end iPhone will contain a sapphire home button. This trade is for aggressive investors only as often such speculation do not turn out to be true. RBCN manufactures mono-crystalline sapphire. If Apple speculation
(Subscribers to ZYX Buy Change Alert have been provided a precise zone where to buy and how much to buy.) On Tuesday, Microsoft MSFT announced that it is buying Nokia NOK ’s device business and also licensing certain intellectual property from Nokia. There has been much negative commentary. For example Morgan Stanley MS downgraded Microsoft, and investors voted with their money
Avago Technologies AVGO (AVGO) is a Singapore based semiconductor manufacturer that is set to benefit from the launch of the new iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C from Apple AAPL (AAPL) as well as the growing need for Small Cell BTS systems. The company has had a long-term relationship with Apple. Apple has been using power
It is true that both Adobe Systems (ADBE) and Autodesk (ADSK) are in the software business and support similar PEG Ratios. The PEG Ratio of Adobe is 2.72 and Autodesk is 2.25. The PEG Ratio is defined as P/E divided by five year EPS growth rate. But Autodesk is no