In a program on Fox Business, Charles Payne, NewOak Capital President James Frischling and Penn Financial Group founder Matt McCall talked about chip maker Micron Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ:MU). Payne said that the company has recovered from its bad times and it is now focusing on Cloud, innovation, data centers, NAND flash, memory chips and other semiconductor devices that are massively used in the enterprise. He said that Micron Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ:MU) was facing some issues in the past and therefore was questioned by many experts. Lack of sound execution is the problem with Micron Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ:MU), Payne thinks. Analysts…
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Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC) is desperately trying to get success in mobile and tablet business after getting milestones in the PC business. The chipmaker is working on a new technology which will be used in the new chip called “Sofia”. This chip would deplete the added costs which are becoming a burden for Intel. Sofia chip will be made in Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC)’s own chip making factories. It would be cost effective, compatible with the growing and emerging needs of microprocessor world. ARM processor partnership is costing Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC) a lot of money. Sofia chip will use Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC)’s…
Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOGL)’s Chrome and Mozilla Firefox are competing each other for years. Although Google’s Chrome beat Firefox years ago, there was a deal signed back in 2011 between the two companies. According to the deal, Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOGL) was to pay $300 million per year to Firefox in return of Firefox using Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOGL)’s search bar in its browser. Today, the deal has come to an end as Mozilla has put Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) in its search saddle. In an article on Re/Code Liz Gannes reported this news and said that Mozilla Firefox was counting 90% of its…
Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ:NFLX) and Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOGL)’s Youtube are ruling the streaming kingdom for years. But a new report by Sandvine, a company which analyzes the web data usage and trends has hinted that there might be a new strong party in town. Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN)’s prime time traffic in streaming has jumped to 2.58% from 1.41% in a year. Although the report does not clearly show which TV shows and music videos/audios were streamed on the metric of number of users, it clearly depicts the improvement of Amazon’s new tactics to gain new subscribers. Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ:NFLX), as expected,…
In a program on CNBC, it was reported that Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOGL) and Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) are revamping their app stores in China. Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOGL), which has been in bad relations with developers of China will now allow the developers to publish apps in order to give a boost to app development in the emerging market. PC Mag editor Sascha Segan said that after the update. Chinese developers will be able to publish their apps on the Play Store. He thinks that the real news in all this is the softening of the relations between Chinese mobile market and Google.…
A program on Bloomberg took a quick look at some of the top stocks to watch. GoPro Inc (NASDAQ:GPRO), Sony Corp (ADR) (NYSE:SNE) and The Home Depot, Inc. (NYSE:HD) are some of the top stocks. GoPro Inc (NASDAQ:GPRO) CEO is planning to sell 5 million shares worth around $330 million. GoPro Inc (NASDAQ:GPRO) stock has got a habit of breaking all-time highs. On Tuesday, the action camera maker traded at around $85.41 per share, which is more than 200% above than its IPO. Riverwood Captial and Foxteq Holdings are also selling GoPro Inc (NASDAQ:GPRO) shares. This selling spree had no bad…
In a program on Bloomberg, Weather Company CTO and CIO Bryson Koehler said that his company is expanding dramatically. The Weather channel is experiencing growth in mobile apps, B2B, space, energy, office, enterprise and other multifarious aspects of the industry. He said that the company’s apps have recorded 170 million downloads. The company also used Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) services in its weather forecast systems. Koehler said that his company has numerous partners, but Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) is one of the most important peers in the industry. Atmospheric science, computer science, amalgamation of these services to give best weather forecast around…
Twitter Inc (NYSE:TWTR) is going through a bad time lately. The company is trying with multiple ventures and strategies. Executives and important developers are leaving the company amid the lack of focus. Today was the first day of Twitter Inc (NYSE:TWTR)’s session with investors. Social media company’s investors came up with some doubts and confusions about the long term company strategy and management. But Twitter’s CEO Dick Costolo worked day and night to craft some promises and future scenario to cheer up investors. The company threw a long list of promises to the confused investors and said that it is…
Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) has apparently shunned all the warnings and frustrations of US’s powerful secret agency FBI. In a recent development, the company has included a seamless, end to end secure text messaging algorithm in WhatsApp, its newly acquired, most popular chatting service. After the introduction of the algorithm which is dubbed as “TextSecure”, users will be able to chat with each other without the fear of eavesdroppers, governmental intruders and hackers. In a blog post by Whisper Systems, the company behind TextSecure, announced that Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB)’s latest update for WhatsApp for Android has TextSecure working behind the scenes.…
In a program on CNBC, it was reported that Samsung’s mobile business plummeted by 30% in just one year. This huge loss has raised many questions. Samsung’s mobile phones were quick enough to take market and challenge giants like Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) but the company is now experiencing a decline. BlackBerry Ltd (NASDAQ:BBRY), which is striving hard to make a mark in the emerging as well as established markets can take huge advantage from this decline of Korean phone maker. Dan Costa, Editor at PC Mag explained some reasons behind this decline. Costa said that Samsung is facing problems at…
International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE:IBM) has joined the race of clean, simple and manageable email tools. It has announced a new email client called Verse which will bring innovative and useful features to the email world. Pictorial representation of emails and on the go management are the pronounced features of Verse. In an article on The Wired, some of the eloquent features of the Verse tool were reviewed. Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) and Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOGL) are the main parties which will be challenged by this new email tool. Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOGL) recently launched its new app for email called Inbox.…
In a program on CNBC, Walter Piecyk, BTIG analyst said that Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) will need to add more memory in its phones because the emerging social trends are filling up the existing memories pretty fast. People take hundreds of selfies in a week. They make short videos and clips on the go. The trend of sharing videos through social media is going viral. We see a lot of people who take random images, videos during their walks, shopping, work and sports. The technical revamps and quality improvements done by Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) in its camera and performance has increased…