Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) will win the battle over The Walt Disney Company (NYSE:DIS), considers Michael Pachter, managing director of Wedbush Securities. Pachter together with Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Paul Sweeney discussed about the new feud between these two companies on Bloomberg’s ‘Taking Stock.’ The latest fight between Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) and The Walt Disney Company (NYSE:DIS) erupted just this week as the Internet retail giant stopped pre-orders for some of the latest movies of the entertainment company including ‘Captain America: The Winter Soldier’ and ‘Maleficent.’ According to Pachter, having pre-orders on films which will come out on DVDs and Blu-rays is one of…
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It looks like Tesla Motors Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA) will benefit from exemptions to environmental rules in California as an incentive to build their planned ‘Gigafactory’ there if recent remarks from California Senator Ted Gaines are any indication. According to a report from The Los Angeles Times, Gaines was quoted as saying on the sidelines of a meeting with company representatives on Friday that Tesla Motors Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA) can speed up the process of building its massive battery factory if the state will relax a few rules for the company as part of an incentive package meant to entice the company to put…
Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) and The Walt Disney Company (NYSE:DIS) both have an incentive to quickly resolve their new feud, Tuna Amobi, an S&P Capital IQ analyst, said in a discussion which also featured Paul Sweeney on Bloomber Intelligence. Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) and The Walt Disney Company (NYSE:DIS) are embroiled in a new battle as the internet retailing giant has stopped accepting preorders for Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Maleficent and other Disney movies which are about to come out on DVDs and Blu-rays. According to Amobi, he sees Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) and The Walt Disney Company (NYSE:DIS) having a lot…
Tesla Motors Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA) has been upgraded by Rod Lache of Deutsche Bank to a Buy rating with a price target of $310. For the upgrade, the analyst noted that Tesla Motors Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA) is seen to have “much steeper” growth trajectory, a “much richer” mix and “ultimately much lower than previously assumed” costs. The upgrade on Tesla Motors Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA) comes after Pacific Crest Securities recently initiated coverage on the company and rated it Outperform with a price target of $316. Meanwhile, Morgan Stanley is also very bullish on Tesla and has a $320 price target for the stock.…
Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) has fired another shot at Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL), this time targeting the MacBook Air, with three new advertisements for the Surface Pro 3. The new Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) ads which take aim at the Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) laptop have the tagline, “The tablet that can replace your laptop.” In the first video Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) released titled “Crowded,” an Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) MacBook Air user asks a Surface Pro 3 user what he is using. They then go on to compare their processors, which are both Intel Core i5 CPUs. Furthermore, the Surface Pro 3 user says…
Tesla Motors Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA) is going to be a very powerful company, Jim Cramer remarked in a discussion about the electric vehicles manufacturer on CNBC. Tesla Motors Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA), according to Cramer at the start of the discussion, is the subject of another upgrade, this time from Deutsche Bank. “A lot of things are happening with Tesla. This is the second upgrade that we’ve seen. This is a recommendation change by Deutsche Bank saying, ‘an even steeper growth projection…we just upgraded to Buy’. But they’re talking about significant volume increases in Tesla,” Cramer said. According to Cramer, Tesla Motors…
Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ:NFLX) has just cut off a method companies use to at least have a picture of how many people view their original programming, a report from Recode notes. The development comes as Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ:NFLX) has decided to tighten its control over what information companies which provide analysis to internet service providers (ISPs) about their networks see. As a case in point, companies like Procera Networks can no longer see data that gives them an idea of how many people view a particular show on Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ:NFLX) using the internet networks of one of their client ISPs.…
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) will soon be rolling out a change in how its products, specifically those running on its mobile platform iOS, connect to Wi-Fi networks. This change has led to troubles for at least one startup named Nomi which decided to layoff some personnel, a report from Recode reveals. According to the site’s Jason Del Rey, Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) has decided to randomize the MAC addresses of iOS devices running on iOS 8. This means that a device on this platform will not have the same MAC address, a unique string of 12 characters that is its ID for…
Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN)’s “strongly-worded letter” against the Hachette Book Group and a letter from authors against the electronic commerce giant was discussed on Bloomberg’s Countdown. Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN), in an open letter it reportedly sent authors and also published online, argued that e-books should be less expensive than they currently are. “With an e-book, there’s no printing, no over-printing, no need to forecast, no returns, no lost sales due to out of stock, no warehousing costs, no transportation costs, and there is no secondary market — e-books cannot be resold as used books. E-books can and should be less expensive,”…
The 3D printing industry, which 3D Systems Corporation (NYSE:DDD), Stratasys, Ltd. (NASDAQ:SSYS) and ExOne Co (NASDAQ:XONE) are involved in would continue to grow, Anthony Vicari and Ashok Kumar said in an interview last year on CNBC. It turns out that Vicari of Lux Research and Kumar of The Maxim Group were more right about the growth expected in the industry than the expected prices of these stocks. In the interview, Vicari said back then that the advent of the personal 3D printer, or at least the declining price of 3D printing systems, was driving the interest in companies such as…
Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB)’s Dan Rose went on an interview on CNBC exactly a year ago and explained what the social networking giant, then just a few months fresh of its IPO, was planning for mobile, gaming and advertising. In this interview, the company’s vice president of partnerships foretold correctly that the social networking giant will become more of a mobile company. The interview was just after Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS) raised its price target on Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) to $45 a share. Carl Quintanilla who interviewed Rose said before the start of the discussion that the company’s stock was trading steady…
Exactly a year ago, Twitter Inc (NYSE:TWTR)’s CEO was quoted in a CNBC segment addressing critics comparing the company’s offering to the town square in the old days. He was right. The remarks from the Twitter Inc (NYSE:TWTR) chief were broadcast alongside a discussion about the company and the ecosystem of other companies it has spawned, its then-impending IPO and its impact on the world. The company has since made its debut on the stock market and has had its own share of ups and downs. However, the company recently reported performance in the recently-ended quarter that silenced a lot…