Author: Viki K.

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL)  is a company that is wide known for its innovative and out of the box thinking. The Apple stores built with glass are one of such fine examples of innovation and creativity. It looks fantastic from the outside and it also excites a user to go to the upper floor easily as he knows easily if the stuff he is looking for is out there. In a recent appearance in Bloomberg’s “Street Smart”, Peter Bolin, the man who designed the magnificent looking new glass based Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL)  Stores, on being asked about the secret behind the Apple stores…

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Well, we know by now that Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) is going towards an integrated smart home system where every home appliance and security system can be controlled using a single device. Apple is not the only on in this space, it has very tough competition from the current No.1 brand in the world, Google and also Samsung which is gaining market share in the smartphone segment. In fact, Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) is losing its smartphone market share to Samsung due to the bigger screen phone Samsung brings into the market. The iPhone 6 might be Apple’s answer to its competitor Samsung. Coming…

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Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) is set to come up with software that might be controlling your home. Apple already has software that control televisions, lighting and lots of other products at your home. However, the tech giant is reported to go one step ahead now and control most of your home using a new set of software. Apple has recently got a few patents that tell us that the company is going to the kitchen and other parts of your home. All this using the iPad and this is what is truly unique. Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) is not the only one to…

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Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOGL) is coming up with a latest 7” tablet which has got 3D imaging capacity and as it does with all of its new products, it is not going to release them for general public directly, Wall Street Journal reports. Google is planning to manufacture 4,000 of such model devices so that the developers can test and try to create apps. Rolfe Winkler, a WSJ reporter said: “It comes with infrared Depth sensors and advanced software that really can process 3D images.” When asked why tech companies are going towards these advanced vision technology, Winkler said “Well, you…

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The main concept of evolutionary electronics revolves around lighter, cheaper, smarter. With this in mind, it would be interesting to know what the major electronic giants could possibly have in their goody bag. An interesting insight into this was given at CNBC by Toni Sacconaghi, a Sanford Bernstein senior research analyst, when he was discussing if Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT)’s new release, Surface Pro 3 would be a threat to Apple Inc (NASDAQ:AAPL), and the discussion eventually went to the long term outlook on computer hardware. Sacconaghi considers that there is a possibility in the future for mobile devices to converge…

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 Earlier today, Bill Miller, Chairman of LMM LLC, was discussing about the state of the current markets on CNBC and he was particularly focused on Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) and Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN). While he said that Amazon is a good buy now and for a few more months, it has to put a lot of effort to be where it was a couple of months ago. He stated that Apple is a very interesting stock and it is worth between $700 and $750 per share, so it’s probably a good time to buy Apple though its trading around $600 today. When…

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The current market trends are suggesting that Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL), which has been doing very well lately, and International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE:IBM) are two of the companies that face a great boost in stock values. Jim Cramer of CNBC, in his “Mad Money” program, suggests why looking at the charts right to the last detail will not work in the long run. He says that to know how a company’s stocks will turn, you need to know something about the companies in a deeper sense. But sometimes, the forecasts of conventional chart watchers could be wondrously accurate, as in…

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Twitter Inc (NYSE:TWTR) is looking into pairing with a music startup and it has its eyes specifically on Soundcloud, a German startup. Alexander Ljung, CEO of Soundcloud, said in an interview with Bloomberg, last year, regarding how it fits into the broader media industry, that many interesting things are being done with regards to media online, YouTube on the video side and Soundcloud on the audio side. He mentioned that these were different from applications done by others. He also added statistics, which reinforced the fact that Soundcloud had a solid foothold in the industry. “When I look at the…

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Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) is going to launch new models of its Surface tablet. It might release a smaller version of  the Surface or may be a surface RT without an Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC) chipset. As CNBC’s Jon Fortt states, the launch comes at a time when the entire tablet market is slowing down and there is a lot of speculation on the enhancements that we are going to see. Critics and experts feel that this is not the correct time to launch a new tablet. This might probably be correct seeing the trend in tablet sales over the past few weeks. However,…

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The third quarter revenue report of Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CSCO) has been released recently. The company posted earnings worth $0.42 per share, down from $0.46 a year earlier, and a bit shallower than expected revenue, with a 5.5% percent drop to $11.5 billion, due to very sluggish sales in emerging markets, as a result of it concentrating on recovering demand in the United States and Europe.. The company’s gross margin of 62.7 % in its fiscal third quarter was above its guidance level of 61% to 62%, and much higher than its 53.3% in the previous fiscal quarter. A reason might…

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A U.S. appeals court refused to resurrect a patent case filed by Samsung Electronics against Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) and ruled in the favor of the latter, Reuters reports. The case reference number at the US court of Appeals is 13-1519 and its between Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd v. International Trade Commission and Apple. You can get the copy of the judgement here. Both companies have been dragging each other to the courts all around the world for over three years now, alleging each other of breaching patents while designing and manufacturing smartphones. However, both Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) and Samsung have been winning minor battles so far. Though luckily none of them…

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Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC) is packing away employees in its marketing division, prior to the arrival of its new chief marketing officer, Steven Fund. The chipmaker, who has not been doing so well lately, claims that Fund will restore some of its previous glory. In the past few weeks, as many as 40 marketing employees accepted voluntary incentive packages to leave, Reuters quoted two anonymous sources, who also said that the set of leaving employees include marketing vice presidents, Kevin Sellers and Nancy Bhagat, who would have reported to Mr. Fund if they stayed in the job. These reductions come at…

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