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  • Best Buy's best bet

    By David Danna - June 17, 2013 | Tickers: BBY, GOOG, MSFT

    Commentators have long been beating the drum for the death of brick and mortar retail, especially technology retail. The crowning example of the faltering technology retail market was the closing of Circuit City. The last nationwide big box electronics retailer, Best Buy (NYSE: BBY), has been suffering for years. The latest news from the company is that they are selling their European assets and the expectation is domestic stores will more »

  • Maps May Lead Google Astray

    By David Danna - June 17, 2013 | Tickers: AAPL, FB, GOOG

    Just last month, Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) released a whole new version of Google Maps at their I/O conference. The focus of the new Maps is to be more personal, with things that you are interested in showing up more prominently on your maps. Google also introduced new advertising features that it hopes will give them an edge in the local, personalized advertising market. A revamp of Google Maps to more »

  • Unifying Fragmentation

    By David Danna - June 16, 2013 | Tickers: AAPL, GOOG, MSFT

    Fragmentation has long been a buzz word thrown around by those looking for a reason to rag on Google’s Android ecosystem. Complaints about fragmentation have their merits; the most popular strain of Android is Gingerbread, which is several years old. The current iteration of Android Jelly Bean is the second most popular version worldwide with about 28% of all handsets.

    Part of the reason that Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) did more »

  • Microsoft's One Success

    By David Danna - June 8, 2013 | Tickers: AAPL, GOOG, MSFT

    The next generation of Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) video game console, the Xbox One, is scheduled for release later this year. The Xbox One will ship with upgraded hardware, a new operating system, and a host of new features and services.

    Several of these new features are controversial, including a requirement that the Xbox be connected to the internet while playing a game, even if the game does not require more »

  • Google Throws Apple a Bone

    By David Danna - June 6, 2013 | Tickers: AAPL, GOOG, MSFT

    Just a few weeks ago Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) held its annual developers conference, Google I/O, at which it launched a host of new and improved services, including an all new Google Maps. Missing from Google I/O was Android 5 or Key Lime Pie. This gives Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) a golden opportunity. In just a few days Apple will hold its annual developers conference, WWDC. At WWDC, we expect more »

  • Android's Sinking Ship

    By David Danna - May 29, 2013 | Tickers: AAPL, GOOG, MSFT

    Google’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) Android operating system currently powers 900 million devices, which are made by a plethora of hardware makers. There are over a million new Android activations each day, as well as nearly 50 billion app downloads. This all makes Google, who give the operating system away for free but pushes their services and advertisements on Android, very happy. Google's hardware partners, however, are not as universally more »

  • Google Wages Preemptive War

    By David Danna - May 22, 2013 | Tickers: AAPL, FB, GOOG, MSFT

    Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) kicked off the first day of its annual developers' conference with a complete overhaul of their mapping service, Google Maps. Google called the redesign a ground up overhaul of the product designed to personalize Maps.

    Indeed, places that you Google for will now be shown more prominently on the Google maps that you see. Reviews of nearby locations from your Google+ friends will also have their place more »

  • Do you Tumblr?

    By David Danna - May 22, 2013 | Tickers: FB, GOOG, YHOO

    Yahoo’s (NASDAQ: YHOO) latest attempt to revitalize its lagging business was unveiled last week when Yahoo CEO and former Googler Marissa Myer announced the $1.1 billion purchase of blogging service Tumblr. Yahoo is spending a third of their cash on this deal in an attempt to entice a younger more tech savvy audience to Yahoo’s platform. But there’s one thing missing from their plan, Yahoo’s more »

  • Fiery Déjà Vu

    By David Danna - May 16, 2013 | Tickers: AMZN, AAPL, GOOG, MSFT

    For a year now rumors have been swirling as to when Amazon’s (NASDAQ: AMZN) line of tablets will make the jump to directly compete with the iPhone and Android phones with a Kindle Smartphone. The latest round of rumors come to us from a somewhat more reliable source than the anonymous comments we are used to on tech forums, namely the Wall Street Journal. People familiar with the skunk more »

  • Can Google Top Skydiving?

    By David Danna - May 16, 2013 | Tickers: FB, GOOG

    There has been sky-high hype in the tech community as Google’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) new wearable computing device, Google Glass, was made available at a few locations on the east and west coast for a few, very devoted, deep pocketed fans. However this week we will all have a chance to sit back and take a somewhat more practical look at upcoming Google products as the technology giant holds their more »

  • Nokia's white knight eludes them

    By David Danna - September 8, 2012 | Tickers: AAPL, BBRY, GOOG, MSFT, NOK

    Nokia (NYSE: NOK) beat Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) to the punch this month by announcing the second generation of their Lumia smartphones about a week before Apple held their highly anticipated iPhone 5 announcement.  The Lumia 920, their new flagship device features a slightly larger 4.5 inch display. The 920 has a dual core 1.5Ghz Qualcomm S4 processor, with Windows Phone 8 Windows phones can now have dual core more »

  • Motorola: M is for Mediocrity

    By David Danna - September 4, 2012 | Tickers: AMZN, AAPL, GOOG, NOK, SSNLF, VZ

    September is shaping up to be a big month for mobile technology announcements. Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) has an announcement at which we expect the launch of a new iPhone and potentially a smaller iPad. Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has an event at which they will unveil the first Windows Phone 8 smartphones. Amazon is holding a press conference to launch the second generation Kindle Fire, and there is the potential for more »

  • Windows Phone's Time to Shine

    By David Danna - September 4, 2012 | Tickers: AAPL, GOOG, MSFT, NOK, SSNLF, SNE

    After just twenty two hours of deliberation, on what experts predicted would take at least a week, the jury in the Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) v. Samsung patent infringement case handed Apple a decisive victory. Not only did they find that Samsung infringed on most of the intellectual property of Apple, Apple alleges they also found that Apple did not infringe on Samsung’s intellectual property. Along with this ruling the more »

  • Bringing the Spark Back to the Fire

    By David Danna - September 2, 2012 | Tickers: AMZN, AAPL, GOOG, MSFT

    This summer Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) set the bar for Android tablets with their $199 Nexus 7 tablet. The Nexus 7 is packing some serious heat especially with such a modest price. Powering the seven inch tablet is an Nvidia 1.3 GHz quad-core Tegra 3 processor supplemented by a 416 MHz 12 core graphics processor and rounded off with 1GB of DDR3 Ram. The Nexus 7 has a 1.2 more »

  • Google's giving 199%

    By David Danna - August 23, 2012 | Tickers: AAPL, BBRY, GOOG, MSFT

    Google’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) Android operating system has long had an update issue. It takes years in some cases for the latest version of Android to make its way onto the majority of devices in the wild. This means that although Google releases a new version of their operating system every year, sometimes even more rapidly, most Android users never get their phones updated to the newest version. On Apple more »

  • Long Term Evolution

    By David Danna - August 21, 2012 | Tickers: AAPL, T, S, VZ

    The nation’s third largest cell phone carrier, Sprint (NYSE: S), has made numerous strategic errors over the last decade. The largest of these was their acquisition of Nextel. Announced in 2004 and approved in 2005 the $36 billion merger of Sprint and Nextel into Sprint Nextel was ultimately a complete disaster. In 2008 Sprint wrote down $29.7 billion of the merger, wiping out 80% of the value of more »

  • Verizon's Setting the Bar

    By David Danna - August 19, 2012 | Tickers: AAPL, T, S, TMUS.DL, VZ

    The nation’s largest wireless carrier, Verizon Wireless (NYSE: VZ), released their second quarter results on Thursday July 19th. Verizon’s Q2 operating income jumped to $5.7 billion, from $4.9 billion this time last year. Total revenue was $28.6 billion, up 3.7% year over year. Earnings per share came in at $.64, exactly in line with Bloomberg’s consensus. Estimated revenue was $28.5 billion more »

  • Zynga's New Game: Diversification

    By David Danna - August 15, 2012 | Tickers: FB, GOOG, ZNGA

    Facebook’s (NASDAQ: FB) second quarter earnings were actually in line with estimates. They reported $1.18 billion in revenue for the second quarter; the estimate was for $1.15 billion. One time compensation costs were the only reason they weren’t profitable. These compensation costs totaled $1.3 billion and related to their IPO; they also outweighed the 32% increase in revenue Facebook reported and resulted in a $157 more »

  • Amazon: From A to Z

    By David Danna - August 13, 2012 | Tickers: AMZN, AAPL, MSFT

    The world’s largest online retailer, Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN), recently reported their second quarter results. The news wasn’t as bad as Nokia’s billion dollar loss or as eye catching as Microsoft’s $6 billion write off, however Amazon's results weren’t particularly good either. Since going online in 1995, Amazon has undergone several strategic shifts; they started out as an online bookstore. Amazon then diversified into a more »

  • Facebook Needs a Friend

    By David Danna - August 13, 2012 | Tickers: FB, GOOG, ZNGA

    On the 26th of July Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) reported its second quarter results; they were largely in line with Wall Street’s estimates. Of course that wasn’t good enough for investors who had been hoping for better news, and Facebook’s stock sank. Shares were down in afterhours trading nearly 10%, setting a new low, nearly 40% below Facebook’s May initial public offering. The much hyped Facebook more »

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