It is time to take partial profits on 10 popular stocks listed later in this column. These are great companies with great products, excellent market shares, good balance sheets, and good earnings growth prospects. In addition to good fundamentals, from a traditional technical analysis perspective, all of these companies remain
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
Computex in Taipei, Taiwan, is one of the largest tech trade shows in the world with 1,700 exhibitors at this year’s get together where Intel INTC -0.43% (INTC) introduced many new innovations. One of them is a new line of Haswell processors to be used by Sony (SNE) to power its Vaio Pro for up to 25 hours without a
The big three in gaming consoles are Sony ,Microsoft MSFT, and Nintendo. Both Microsoft and Sony have announced new next generation consoles after a long hiatus. PS4 is the new console from Sony and Xbox One is the new console from Microsoft. Advanced Micro Devices is the big winner. Its processor designs are
Google has a tradition of naming its operating systems after desserts. Jelly Bean is an incremental upgrade to Android Ice Cream Sandwich. The biggest improvement in Jelly Bean is in its search function and now presents information in a fashion similar to Apple Siri. Google has also introduced Nexus 7, a
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
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