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 a large beneficiary of the shift to mobile computing," Wu ... [read more >>]
	23 July 2008, 17:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

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 d ... [read more >>]
	11 March 2008, 04:29GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

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 most likely will die a long, slow and excruciating death. Back to business, Google managed to drop to a 52-week low y ... [read more >>]
	11 March 2008, 04:07GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

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 in share value just from one day to the next. Many analysts have cut their 12-month target on Google, Reuters report ... [read more >>]
	27 February 2008, 06:58GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

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 million, or 11 cents per share. Today is the day that Jerry Yang has to let some of his employees go. Despite knowing that ... [read more >>]
	29 January 2008, 12:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

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 of a surprise like the one mentioned below. The AdSense revenue is crucial to many of the new startups and the l ... [read more >>]
	14 January 2008, 11:26GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

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 are expected to be around $52 billion in 2007, a significant increase when compared to the $45 billion revenue ac ... [read more >>]
	13 December 2007, 03:33GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

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 at the current levels. The statement comes after a period when Elpida has been envolved in a face-off with th ... [read more >>]
	05 December 2007, 11:10GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

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 suspended back in August 2006, as Dell had to file a backlog of earnings report with the Securities and Exchange Commission. [ADMA ... [read more >>]
	05 December 2007, 06:33GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

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 people's hunger for electronics and consumer devices, and boosted global semiconductor sales by 5 percent in a month, the ... [read more >>]
	04 December 2007, 04:24GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

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 market. The company's stock has dropped almost $2 a share, which would translate in 20 percent loss. Of course, t ... [read more >>]
	03 December 2007, 03:39GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

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 abyssal depths. Bonnie Brown has experienced both and in a very short period of time. Back in 1999, she was fresh from ... [read more >>]
	13 November 2007, 04:53GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

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 fi ... [read more >>]
	28 September 2007, 10:53GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

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 million of the same stock shares. Transmeta will sell securities shares at a price of $6.4 per share and they in ... [read more >>]
	24 September 2007, 04:15GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

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 struggling to speed up the pace. What is very good news for manufacturers and vendors is less than thrilling for most potential b ... [read more >>]
	02 August 2007, 08:58GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

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 reg ... [read more >>]
	04 July 2007, 05:40GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

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 our Apple revenue and earnings power estimates in light of the ever-larger Mac OS X user base," Think ... [read more >>]
	13 March 2007, 09:56GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

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 iPhone's market and that numbers will likely not be as high as Apple has predicted. Otherwise, analysts have ... [read more >>]
	12 March 2007, 08:00GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

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 some few years ago. According to Fortune, this little mistake may have cost Jobs little less than 3 billion US dol ... [read more >>]
	09 March 2007, 11:42GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

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 of March, but if one were to judge by its most recently build seed, this would seem highly unlikely. The build ... [read more >>]
	06 March 2007, 11:19GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

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 bring the Cupertino-based company other piles of cash. They're doing very well and things will only get bet ... [read more >>]
	03 March 2007, 06:33GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia