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, wrested the crown from Gates. According to Bloomberg , yesterday Gates became the richest man again, although Forbes,
China, which was an afterthought for Apple once-upon-a-time, has become the company’s second biggest market. In the second fiscal quarter, Apple generated $7.9 billion of revenues from China. This amount was more than three times the revenues a year earlier. As a reference, Apple’s total revenues were $39.2 billion. A large number
At its Worldwide Developer Conference in San Francisco, Apple AAPL made a series of announcements that will provide significant investing and trading opportunities both on the long and the short sides, over the coming weeks and months in the derivative plays. Below are thumbnails of 14 companies worth paying attention
There is more than one way to skin a cat. To make money from Apple Inc., it is not necessary to buy Apple stock. Over the years, at The Arora Report , we have benefitted from the rich gold mine of opportunities that Apple /quotes/zigman/68270/quotes/nls/aapl AAPL +1.28% suppliers have offered.
Nvidia (NVDA) has kicked out AMD (AMD ) from Apple (AAPL) MacBooks. Previously AMD had kicked Nvidia out of MacBooks. It appears that Apple is playing the game to get the best pricing. There does not seem to be any performance issues with
Cray (CRAY) stock is trading strongly higher after it was announced that University of Illinois’ National Center for Supercomputing Applications has struck a $188 million multi-year deal with Cray. Cray will provide XE6 and XK6 models. These computers will incorporate Opteron CPUs from Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and
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In a prior post, we forewarned that Apple (AAPL) may push out Nvidia (NVDA) in favor of Advanced Micro Devices (AMD). Now the news is out. New Mac Books will include AMD’s ‘œRadeon‘ graphics chips in the 15-inch and 17-inch models, replacing parts previously supplied by Nvidia. Now one part of
Traditionally, NVIDIA (NVDA) is a manufacturer of graphics cards marketed under the name GeForce. Typically, low end PCs and notebooks offer graphics capabilities integrated with the CPU. The high end units offer better graphics performance by utilizing separate graphics chips from NVIDIA or Advanced Micro Devices (AMD). Unfortunately for NVIDIA,
Barron’s just made a case for Nvidia stock price doubling. We are a fan of Barron’s and its mostly thoughtful content. However, Barron’s has been known to be wrong at times and if past is the prologue, one more time Barron’s is providing an opportunity to short sell NVDA at