All Entries Tagged With: "smartphones"
Is Apple Fighting Proxy Wars Against Google?
Shares of smart phone maker HTC (OTC: HTCKF) tumbled in Asian trading on Monday, after the company lost a preliminary ruling in a patent case against tech giant Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL). In an effort to stem the damage, HTC announced a share-repurchase program. Yet, as Reuters reported, the announcement did little to stop the bleeding. [...]
Intel Plans Comeback in Mobile Computing
Intel Corp. (NASDAQ: INTC) has never really had to play catch-up before. The company has been the front-runner in its sector practically from the day it started. Now the company says it is planning a new microprocessor that will establish a new mobile computing category, under a new trademark – the Ultrabook™. The new ultrabook [...]
IDC Predicts Huge Growth for ARM Chips
When technology research firm IDC issued its latest report on PC microprocessor unit shipments recently, this one sentence in the press release was getting the lion’s share of the attention: “By 2015, IDC expects that over 13% of PC processors will be based on the ARM architecture.” That’s not good news for Intel Corp. (NASDAQ: [...]
What Microsoft Wants from Skype
News that Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) has acquired Internet communications company Skype was not a big surprise. The surprise was how much it cost. Microsoft is paying about $8.5 billion in cash for the company. The investor group that is selling Skype paid about $2 billion for the company just two years ago. Skype claims [...]
Customers Like Verizon’s iPhone, Network
Verizon Wireless, a joint venture between Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ) and Vodafone plc (NASDAQ: VOD), has been selling the iPhone 4 by Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) for almost two months now, and that’s enough time to conduct a survey to find out how well Verizon’s customers like the iPhone. And ChangeWave Research has done [...]
For Google, Mobile Advertising is Where It’s At
At the meeting of the Internet Advertising Bureau that began on Monday, February 28th, Eric Schmidt, the departing CEO of Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG), told the assembled crowd that the current $17 billion market for online display advertising will grow to $200 billion. In his remarks, Schmidt said that he sees “the union of the [...]
Zecco Mobile Lite Has Arrived!
UPDATE: Zecco Mobile, with fully-featured trading capabilities, is now available for both iPhone and Android platforms. Get the free app now: Apple App Store Google Play You asked for it and now it’s here! We are kicking off the mobile platform roll-out with Zecco Mobile Lite for Apple’s iPhone and iPod Touch. So, if [...]
Smartphone Maker HTC Adding Software
Continuing an effort to move up the smartphone value chain, Taiwanese handset maker HTC Corp. has acquired multi-media delivery specialist Saffron Digital and purchased a stake valued at $40 million in online gaming company Onlive Inc. The market for mobile software makers is at least as competitive as the hardware market for handsets, but HTC [...]
Nokia Kills New AT&T Phone
The world’s leading maker of mobile phone handsets, Finland’s Nokia Corp. (NYSE: NOK), has struggled with getting a competitive smartphone into the US market ever since Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) introduced the iPhone nearly four years ago. The company’s latest hope was a phone using the latest version of the Symbian operating system, dubbed the [...]
Can Mobile Chip Maker ARM Continue Booming?
Shares in Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) have risen 62% in the past year, and through its 2012 fiscal year, the stock’s forward P/E ratio is 14.85. That could indicate that there’s still a decent amount of upside in Apple stock. Or, it could mean investors are pricing Apple as a blue-chip versus a growth stock. [...]
