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No More iPhone 3GS for Now, O2 Says

The traction Apple's latest mobile phone sees on the market seems to be rising each and every day, a state of facts that determined UK wireless carrier O2 to announce that it had already sold all the units it had in stock. The new iPhone 3GS has seen phenomenal demand in the country, and the company has exhauste...

3 July 2009
08:30 GMT

PunkTrader, a Stock-Trading Game for Mac OS X

baKno has announced PunkTrader, a stock trading game that tests players' trading skills using real historical stock market price movements. The title picks one of the 20 most actively traded stocks and takes the gamer to 9:30 am Wall-Street time at the beginning of a random trading day within the last five years...

26 May 2009
04:14 GMT

Zacks Rates Apple Stock as a Hold

Today, Zacks has announced its latest Industry Outlook, which looks at Apple and Sony. Highlighted stocks of Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL) and Sony Corp. (NYSE: SNE) are discussed by Zacks Equity Research analyst Ian Gilson, who rates Apple as a Hold, and Sony as a Sell.Zacks.com is a property of Zacks Investment Researc...

1 April 2009
08:14 GMT

To Buy or to Sell Apple Shares, That Is the Question

Apple watchers say the company's stock valuation is too attractive to ignore, even with concerns about Jobs already being factored in. Most analysts trust Apple to have a good succession plan in place, should its iconic CEO be leaving soon, getting back on track and sustaining its record of innovation. ThinkPanm...

16 January 2009
04:29 GMT

Jack Thompson Believes God Is Responsible for Low Take Two Stock Prices

Almost all of the domains of entertainment have a few figures that stand out, some for the best of reasons, but others for some very bad rationales, or thanks to their weird behavior. Such is the case with Jack Thompson, the now disbarred lawyer who went on a rampage against the Grand Theft Auto franchise, because he...

6 January 2009
09:01 GMT

Apple's Stock Is a 'Buy,' Analysts Say

Yahoo! Finance reports that JPMorgan analyst Mark Moskowitz has lowered his sales estimates for the iPhone and the iPod, while raising MacBook forecasts and earnings estimates for the three months ending in December. Most analysts agree that Apple's stock is ripe for the picking, advising clients to do so withou...

24 November 2008
10:54 GMT

iStock 1.5.3 Fixes Bugs, Adds Online Help

iStock, developed by danholt4mac, has reached version 1.5.3. This latest release of the stock and portfolio management tool for Mac OS X fixes a variety of bugs, including non visible quotes from Yahoo! France and help language issues.iStock assists users in keeping track of their favorite stocks and personal portfol...

28 October 2008
11:21 GMT

Michigan Woman Pleads Guilty for Involvement in a Major Spam Operation

Judy M. Devenow, 56, of Lansing, Michigan, has pleaded guilty for assisting notorious spammer Alan M. Ralsky orchestrate a global complex spam and fraud operation back in 2004. According to her plea agreement, she is facing a maximum of 41 months in prison and a fine of $7,500.A press release from Acting United State...

20 October 2008
05:55 GMT

Cheaper Macs Likely with Apple's Stock Down

On July 21, 2008 Apple's CFO Peter Oppenheimer stated, “We will be delivering state-of-the-art new products that I cannot discuss today that our competitors will not be able to match." It is believed that Apple had foreseen a potential drop in Mac sales, and implicitly its stock, thus the company might be ...

30 September 2008
06:24 GMT

Apple Shares Plummet After Rating Cuts

Apple's shares fell to their lowest level in over a year, to a whopping $105.26 per share, a $22.98 decrease resulted from Mike RBC Capital and Morgan Stanley's cutting their ratings on the company's stock. The two firms are predicting a high probability that consumers no longer be eager to spend cash ...

30 September 2008
04:06 GMT

Yahoo! Stock Value Reaches Lowest Point in 5 Years

The Yahoo! stock value registered, a couple of days ago, the lowest point in five years. The shares dropped to $17.75, while in November 2007, the share price reached the highest point, namely of $34.08. In May 2008, the stock value per unit continuously went up and down, with a minimum rate of $22 and a maximum...

5 September 2008
09:41 GMT

Apple Still the Best Play on Digital Media, Analyst Says

Apple's stock recently tumbled, due to concerns for the health of Apple's CEO and bad forecast for fourth quarter earnings. However, analyst Shaw Wu, of American Technology Research, believes this is a good chance to buy Apple stock."We continue to see Apple as the best play on digital media in the home and...

23 July 2008
17:06 GMT

Take Two Shareholders Bailing Out

No, we're not talking about shareholder Jack Thompson, we're talking about the big ones here: Oppenheimer Funds, Take Two's biggest shareholder and FMR LLC, the second-largest shareholder sold most of their shares, without telling why they actually did it (like there would be a need for official confir...

11 March 2008
04:29 GMT

GOOG Going Down Like a Plane on Fire

I'm sure everybody interested remembers about the big names at Google saying they are certain that the coming recession will not harm their company and that they have ensured that "everything will be well." This expression is overused in movies, but unlike with the stock market, whenever a character says it, he ...

11 March 2008
04:07 GMT

Google Share Price Drops 8% on Recession Fears

A comScore US industry report, published earlier this week, indicates a decline in the key measure for how the Mountain View-based company is getting paid by advertisers, and that freaked everybody out. Despite Google's repeated statements that any upcoming recession would not affect it, it saw an 8 percent fall...

27 February 2008
06:58 GMT

The End of Yahoo Is Nigh!

After the eighth straight quarter of declining profit, Yahoo!'s future definitely looks dark and cloudy. And what a drop in net income it was, really. Analysts, questioned by Bloomberg, have come together with a number and it was a scary one: almost 43 percent a decrease. In dollars, that means only 155.8 millio...

29 January 2008
12:51 GMT

How to Kill Your Stock, Courtesy of Google

Google can be your friend, or the reason of your downfall, if you rely only on the advertising from the Mountain View based company for your revenue stream. And this is not a warning against it, but, as Michael Arrington of TechCrunch.com said, a reason to keep them happy unless you might end up on the receiving end ...

14 January 2008
11:26 GMT

China Gets Revenue Boost in Semiconductor Market

China's semiconductor market has experienced a comeback after a very successful third quarter. Although semiconductor manufactures have rolled on a descending trend until now, strong sales in the third quarter are likely to give a whole revenue of 15 percent this year. The figures for the semiconductor market ar...

13 December 2007
03:33 GMT

Elpida: Operating Loss in Exchange for Market Share

Japanese chip maker Elpida Memory is ready to sustain some financial loss in the operation process in order to snatch a bigger piece of market share from the bigger DRAM producing competition. Elpida spokeswoman Kumiko Higuchi stated that the company is ready to enter the operating loss game if the DRAM prices freeze...

5 December 2007
11:10 GMT

Dell: Thumbs Up for Taking Their Shares Back Home

Dell's chairman and Chief Executive Officer Michael Dell announced the company is currently elaborating a plan of repurchasing stock shares worth $10 million. This initiative is not a novelty among the company, since the executives already started a program for taking back the company shares, but it was suspende...

5 December 2007
06:33 GMT

Semiconductor Industry Boosts 5 Percent in October

The perpetual hunt for a personal computer has excellent effects not only amongst the hardware retailers, but go down the 'food chain' to the silicon wizards. Recent financial reports show that October has been a prolific month for the semiconductor manufacturing industry. The holiday season has unleashed p...

4 December 2007
04:24 GMT

AMD Accuses Intel of Monopoly Abuse

Although things have finally started to move for number two chip manufacturer, the situation is still far from what AMD would have wished. When the Arabian company Mubadala announced that they have purchased Advanced Micro Devices shares that were worth $622 million, things have started falling apart on the stock mar...

3 December 2007
03:39 GMT

The Million Dollar Massage

There's an old saying, "What goes around comes around" and it seems to be catching on big time. Something to do with karma or something in that area, I'm not really sure.But when karma decides to drop by for a visit, it's either: you are going to get very lucky or have your life and moral plummet to ab...

13 November 2007
04:53 GMT

Palm Centro Officially Released, Stock Jumps 6%

Palm Centro's release has followed all the traditional patterns of a mobile phone's market entrance. After the leaked images came some official ones, then rumors on the release date and, in the end, even a special website to announce it. The final step, Pal's official announcement, has finally come.The...

28 September 2007
10:53 GMT

Transmeta Tries to Raise More Cash

After years of seeing its market share and stocks decline Transmeta now tries to secure an important sum in order to secure its financial position for the remainder of the year. The company tries to raise $12.8 million in cash from selling 2 million Transmeta common stock shares and from warrants to purchase another ...

24 September 2007
04:15 GMT

Notebook Manufacturers Running Low on Parts

The mobile computing market segment is increasing more rapidly than even the most optimistic analyst dreamed possible. On one hand, this is very good news for notebook manufacturers and vendors, but on the other hand it means that supplies of key components are running low, while hardware producing companies are stru...

2 August 2007
08:58 GMT

700,000 iPhones Sold Means 5% Shares Climb for Apple

Latest reports say that Apple has managed to sell an estimated number of 700,000 iPhones since its release, on Friday. It is only natural that this huge number would also reflect itself in the company's value. In the last days, its shares have registered a considerable raise on the market.Apple's share pric...

4 July 2007
05:40 GMT

ThinkEquity Too Raised Apple Estimates

The group of firms that decide to raise Apple estimates in anticipation of future events widens every day. According to recent news, ThinkEquity has issued a note to clients yesterday expressing their confidence in Apple's power over the market. "With the Leopard launch just around the corner, we have revisited ...

13 March 2007
09:56 GMT

10 Million Units Could Prove to Be Difficult for Apple's iPhone

The talk about the yet-to-be-launched iPhone goes on, with more predictions and advice from analysts. Forbes' Taesik Yoon published an article entitled 'Beware Apple's iPhone Froth', advising investors to wisely avoid for a while the so-tempting Apple stock. He thinks Apple has overestimated the i...

12 March 2007
08:00 GMT

Jobs Walked Away from $2.7 Billion

Breaking News! Apparently Jobs is not the perfect money-making machine. The Cupertino CEO surely knows when and what to speculate to get his cash (feds seem to think he knows that a little too well, but that's another story). But as Fortune reports, the mighty executive could have made a little financial mistake...

9 March 2007
11:42 GMT

Leopard - Apple's $200 Million Extra Revenue

Leopard is Apple's latest operating system that will be launched this spring. Expectations for the Mac OS X 10.5 are high as it is said to bring several major additions and improvements and should bring Apple one step closer to enterprise customers. There were rumors saying Apple will deliver Leopard by the end ...

6 March 2007
11:19 GMT

Apple Has $12 Billion to Spend

There was a time when Apple didn't do so well, financially. In the mid '90s, they barely kept it moving. This is not such a time for Apple, not by far. Mac sales are steadily growing, iPods sell like crazy (COO tim Cook confirmed the 90 million figure) and the Apple TV and highly-controversial iPhone will b...

3 March 2007
06:33 GMT


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