Apple Inc (NASDAQ:AAPL) long time analyst at Morgan Stanley Katy Huberty, gained first-hand knowledge of the likely sales of the brand new Apple Baby to arrive – the iPhone 6. The analyst’s research notes have indicated that at last count, in the massive Far East markets the game changing iPhones’ latest avatar is expected to pipe sales of its earlier version by over 20%. While, the number does assume no great significance for the causal investor, analysts are going overboard in recommending to remain invested in one of the largest technology product companies! Meaningful growth of iPhone 6 will hold…
Author: Neha Gupta
Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla Motors Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA) revealed on Tuesday that the company will join forces with multiple companies for battery production alongside Panasonic for its “gigafactory”, sending out a strong signal about the way the facility is going to shape into an industrial hub. Optimistic About Cost Reduction While addressing at the World Energy Innovation Forum at the company’s Fremont facility on Wednesday, Musk said that Tesla Motors Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA) is highly confident of achieving 30% or even more in terms of reducing the costs per kilowatt hour. Earlier last week, during the first quarter earnings call, Musk said…
Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) is planning to start off a sales office in China, a destination, which has of late became an important place for the social networking site. The company is looking to open the sales office within a year in order to cater to the local advertisers, who utilize its services for overseas customers, according to a Bloomberg report. Sales Office In A Year If the move goes according to the plan, then it will be the first time when Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) employees will be able to reach out to mainland China’s advertisers directly, even as its services are…
Motorola enters the low-priced device market space with the launch of its Moto E smartphone on Tuesday. The device priced $150 is aimed at targeting the immense potential that emerging markets offer. The move comes following BlackBerry Ltd (NASDAQ:BBRY)’s announcement of a budget device, Z3, launched in Jakarta, Indonesia. Device Specifications Moto E, with its 4.3 inch wide display runs on the Google’s Android 4.4 (KitKat) operating system. The phone has dual SIM availability and comes packed with a 1.4GHz dual-core Snapdragon 200 processor, 4GB internal space and 1 GB Ram. The battery is strong enough to run throughout the day…
Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) has tied up with Twitter Inc (NYSE:TWTR) to help its users order products through replying to product related tweets, according to Bloomberg. Unlike the other times when China follows the ideas from the West, Silicon Valley seems to have borrowed an idea from the Orient nation this time, which is use of social network platform for placing orders. Orders A Tweet Away Under the new facility, Twitter Inc (NYSE:TWTR) users can place a product in their cart by simply replying to the Amazon related product tweets with hashtag #AmazonCart. The users will have to first link their Twitter…
Recent Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC) news indicates the giant chip-maker’s increasing interest in Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOGL)’s Chromebooks. Chrome, an open source operating system is offered by Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOGL), will now be available as Chrome-only computers or Chromebooks, just like Windows OS running notebooks and Mac notebooks. Besides, a range of dedicated all-in-one Chrome boxes for desktops by different computer manufacturers are also in the line-up. Intel Inside But the common line between 99% of the chromebooks to be launched will be the fact that they will have ‘Intel Inside.’In a run-up to the competitive Chromebooks sector, Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC) has its power-packed…
As per a report from CNET, China based component site Cecb2b has mentioned that Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has already supplied Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) with the first batch of Touch ID fingerprint sensor that are to be used in iPhone 6, iPad Air 2 and the next generation iPad Mini in April. TSMC Supplied First Lot Of Sensors Previous reports from January noted that TSMC would commence production on the sensors around the second quarter of the year and would employ 12-inch fab processing. But, later in February, reports emerged that TSMC will be using the same 8 inch…
As part of a rare televised interview series, Chris Davis, the star portfolio manager of Davis Funds and the third generation scion of the famed investment firm Davis Advisors, has spilled family secrets during the conversation on investing and perfecting the winning strategy. Mr. Davis also expressed his opinion on two of his top holdings: Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOGL) and Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN). Three Steps to winning investment strategy In a serialized interview to Anchor Consuelo Mack, of WealthTrack.com, Chris Davis lays bare his thoughts and strategies on investing; allowing investors and professional traders to learn a trick or two on what has kept…
Yahoo Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO)’s market cap is around $35 billion today and most of it is owed to the company’s stake in Alibaba which accounts for about three quarters of its total market cap. If we back out the value of Yahoo’s Alibaba stake, the market value for the rest of Yahoo comes down to $9 billion. Alibaba’s IPO has got a lot of attention already and people in the Silicon Valley are rating it at par with the Facebook IPO launched in 2012. Some even predict it doing better than the one launched by Facebook. On the other hand, Twitter is a very fast…