On Monday, Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft (MSFT), revealed much anticipated tablets from Microsoft. The tablets, to be called Surface, are a much stronger entry than most analysts expected. Speculation by analysts ranged from eBook reader to an Xbox focused tablet. Microsoft shares are up better than 3% on the news. Surface
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
I detailed the attack by hackers on Symantec, the maker of popular Norton Antivirus software in my article, ‘œLords Of Kings Hack Norton Antivirus, Are You Safe?’ Subsequently, Symantec’s take on the hacking was detailed in ‘œSymantec Says Norton Is Safe After Lords of Kings Attack.’ Symantec had stated that
Symantec, maker of Norton Antivirus, has admitted to a major security breach by a group called the Lords of Dharmaraja, which in English means ‘˜Kings of Religion’. For background, please see my article from January 6th, ‘œLords Of Kings Hack Norton Antivirus, Are You Safe?‘ In the last piece, I
Symantec, (SYMC) one of the largest computer security firms in the world, seems to need urgent help with computer security. There are reports that Symantec has confirmed that hackers have stolen a portion of its popular flagship product Norton Antivirus. Are your computers and emails still safe if protected by
Intel Corporation (INTC) reported upside financial results and guidance in spite of weak consumer PC trends and ‘œiPad effect.’ People buying tablets instead of laptops is called ‘œiPad effect.’ The excellent financial performance is attributable to Intel Corporation firing on all cylinders, success of Sandy
Google (GOOG) has just announced a new set of devices called Chromebook. According to GOOG Chromebook boots in eight seconds and resumes instantaneously. Chromebook is also designed from ground up to defend against malware. One of the criticisms of Intel (INTC) has been that it is not
UBS lowered Nvidia (NVDA) estimates citing GPU weakness and aggressive marketing by Intel (INTC). UBS has lowered Nvidia price target lowered to $20. ZYX Change Method Quantitative Analysis screen still shows fair value of Nvidia to be $18. However, over 18, the stock is in weak hands. We have no
As per the prior post, our first tight trailing stop hit on NVIDIA (NVDA) at 22.52. The stop on the remaining position hit at $23.02. Now we have successfully exited our short on NVIDIA with profit. Rumor of Intel (INTC) buying NVIDIA makes no sense as Intel already has a license
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,