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  • Tech Firms Need to Watch Out for Watchdogs

    By Phillip Woolgar - June 19, 2013 | Tickers: AAPL, GOOG, SSNLF

    Google Glass is facing pressure over privacy issues surrounding the digital eyewear, which is still in its beta testing phase. 

    The European Commission asked Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) CEO Larry Page to provide them with the device so the EC could test it.

    The Commission cited concerns over the device's ability to film and record audio of people. According to Computerworld, the EC wrote a letter to Page saying, "Fears more »

  • Lowering Costs With WKRP In Cincinnati?

    By Reuben Brewer - June 19, 2013 | Tickers: AAPL, P, SNE

    Pandora Media (NYSE: P) is buying a physical radio station, though not WKRP of sitcom fame. Can the Internet radio pioneer save itself by going back to the old way of doing things?

    Opening the Box

    Pandora is probably the best known of the Internet “radio” stations, streaming personalized radio stations to its 200 million users. The company has a database of music that it has coded with markers that more »

  • Is Licensing the Next Catalyst for NVIDIA?

    By Chris Moore - June 19, 2013 | Tickers: AAPL, ARMH, GOOG, INTC, NVDA, QCOM, SNE

    Despite reporting a strong recent quarter purveyor of GPUs, NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA), is on the hunt for additional sources of revenue. To that end the company has announced a new emphasis on licensing its patent portfolio as an additional revenue stream. The company has been willing to license its technology in the past, providing the design for the GPU in Sony’s (NYSE: SNE) Playstation 3 and licensing visual computing more »

  • This Tech Giant Is Switching Teams

    By Reuben Brewer - June 19, 2013 | Tickers: AAPL, GOOG, MSFT

    Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) Siri digital assistant will start using Microsoft's (NASDAQ: MSFT) Bing search engine over Google's (NASDAQ: GOOG) when its new mobile operating system comes out later this year. Microsoft appears to be doing a good job exploiting the old saying, “The enemy of my enemy is my friend.”

    A Tense Friendship

    Apple and Google have risen to prominence together, much the way that Microsoft and more »

  • Can Advertising Drive Apple's Revenues?

    By Ishfaque Faruk - June 19, 2013 | Tickers: AAPL, GOOG, P

    Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) recent foray into the music streaming business marks a broader entry into a lucrative segment of the technology space: advertising.

    Apple's massive user-base will generate high levels of traffic, which in turn makes for a strong value proposition for advertisers. The company's freemium model for the iTunes Radio service is a solid move from the company's standpoint to earn incremental revenue from its more »

  • At Least Another Week Of This Analyst War

    By Alexander MacLennan - June 19, 2013 | Tickers: AAPL, BBRY, LNVGY.PK

    The are few stocks that are more contentious today than the Canadian smartphone and services company BlackBerry (NASDAQ: BBRY). In the last few months, investors have suggested everything from conspiracy theories, to bear raids, to pump and dump and short and distorts. But while average investors buy and sell shares and post comments on stock talk sites, analysts from various companies are playing the game as well with some volatile more »

  • 3 Reasons Why The Lumia 925 Will Succeed

    By Adetokunbo Abiola - June 19, 2013 | Tickers: AAPL, BBRY, MSFT, NOK

    Nokia (NYSE: NOK) recently introduced the Nokia Lumia 925. The company made a new interpretation of the award-winning flagship, the Nokia Lumia 920. And while we are short on the sales figures, I think it will be successful. There are three reasons why the Lumia 925 will enable Nokia to have sales growth – innovation, the rising smartphone market in emerging economies, and the Nokia brand.

    Innovation

    BlackBerry (NASDAQ: BBRY) may more »

  • Investing to Profit From the Death of the PC

    By Andrés Cardenal - June 19, 2013 | Tickers: AAPL, GOOG, MSFT

    The PC may not be dead yet, but the distinction between good old PCs and mobile devices like smartphones and tablets is becoming increasingly blurry. The fusion between desktop and mobile ecosystems, the rise of cloud computing and new hybrid devices mean that PCs as a standalone product category are losing relevance by the day.

    Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) and Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) look like the clear winners from this revolution more »

  • A Closer Look at This Software Company's Recent Results

    By Eric Novinson - June 19, 2013 | Tickers: AAPL, IBM, NUAN

    Nuance Communications (NASDAQ: NUAN) specializes in speech recognition. This software company has defended its market by purchasing smaller rivals. Nuance can't buy Microsoft, Google, or IBM (NYSE: IBM) though, so competition remains a risk factor. Nuance also reported weak results for the fiscal second quarter of 2013. Surprisingly, these results may help make the bull case for Nuance.

    Latest Results

    Nuance admitted that its second quarter went poorly. The more »

  • What is Microsoft's Next Ten Billion Dollar Idea?

    By Alexander Cho - June 19, 2013 | Tickers: AAPL, GOOG, MSFT

    In June, Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) announced that it's releasing Office Mobile for iPhone. This is good news for Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) because it is likely that Microsoft will eventually have to design Office 365 for the iPad.  And that could mean billions in sales.

    Office 365 to Apple

    The company’s largest segment is the business division, which houses the Microsoft office suite.

    Source: Microsoft

    The company’s business more »

  • Why You Should Buy Apple

    By Robert Ciura - June 19, 2013 | Tickers: AAPL, CSCO, MSFT

    It’s a story many investors likely know all too well by now. Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), stuck in a post-Steve Jobs era innovative lull, is no longer the darling of the growth investor community. The often irrational Mr. Market has taken a big bite out of the company, sending shares down 39% from their all-time high of $702 reached last year.

    Should investors close the book on the $405 billion more »

  • Buy Apple and Proctor & Gamble and Overlook Ben Bernanke

    By Alexander Cho - June 18, 2013 | Tickers: AAPL, TIP, PG, SPY

    The stock market is more or less hanging on what Ben Bernanke will say coming out of the Federal Reserve meeting. A press release will come from the Federal Reserve Bank on Wednesday afternoon.

    Being an investor in the stock market isn’t always easy, and sometimes it is extremely easy to get lost in the shuffle of short-term news. However, I believe that investors should maintain a longer-term investment more »

  • What's Next For Apple?

    By Yasir Idrees - June 18, 2013 | Tickers: AAPL, BBRY, NOK | Editor's Choice

    Previously, the mobile phone industry was dominated by one single player and the industry was anything but competitive. Today, however, the smartphones industry is as competitive as it could be, with some of the major players trying to adapt and use the latest technology available. Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), along with Samsung, is one of the dominant forces in the current smartphones industry and even though some believe that Apple's more »

  • Are Apple and Others 'Government Stooges'?

    By Tyler Wofford - June 18, 2013 | Tickers: AAPL, FB, MSFT, YHOO

    I'm sure everyone is aware of the blockbuster scandal that developed when whistle blower Edward Snowden released information regarding phone calls, emails, and text messages being monitored and recorded by the federal government. Initially, the media blamed the government, but shortly there after, the companies themselves became the primary target.

    The war of transparency 

    I wrote a piece several days ago explaining that these companies biggest fear should be more »

  • Dividends, Valuation, and Growth: The Perfect Combination

    By Tyler Wofford - June 18, 2013 | Tickers: AAPL, INTC, MSFT

    Some investors look for growth in their investments. Others look for value. While those are both good, other investors are looking for cash. After all, "cash is king." Now, imagine if there were companies that offer all 3. Well, I've found a few that may spark your interest.

    The beauty of cash

    Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) is well aware of how powerful cash is. But surprisingly, it is not at more »

  • What are the Best Stocks for the Next Five Years?

    By Alexander Cho - June 18, 2013 | Tickers: AAPL, PG, WMT

    The Dow Jones industrial average recently pulled back from 15,500 to 14,852 before recovering back to 15,227. Over the past couple week’s market experts were speculating on a recession, but now those same market experts are talking about new highs in the stock market. This is typical behavior; bears come out in every market pullback just to be reined in by a positive wave of buying more »

  • A New Player in the Internet Radio Industry

    By Robinson Roacho - June 18, 2013 | Tickers: AAPL, P, SIRI

    Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) is a major player in the technology business. The product innovation introduced at the end of the last decade propelled the stock to trade as high as the $700's, as you probably know. However, after the release of the iPhone 5 in September of 2012, the stock slid more than $300 dollars, and has hovered around $430-$440 for much of the past few months. Apple more »

  • PRISM: Should Tech & Social Media Investors Brace for Impact?

    By Bill Edson - June 18, 2013 | Tickers: AAPL, FB, GOOG

    The PRISM anti-terrorism program was created to give the government access to emails, videos, social media posts and just about every other bit of data a web user could provide in order to ‘combat terrorism.’ When the story broke on June 6 in the U.K’s Guardian and The Washington Post that nine companies handed over direct access to their servers to the National Security Agency, investors started to more »

  • Screening Dividend Stocks for Future Growth (Part I)

    By Karin Hernandez - June 18, 2013 | Tickers: AAPL, KO, MSFT, PG, WMT

    If you have read any of my previous dividend-focused articles, you know that not only do I consider absolute yield as a factor for my selection of a company, but I also consider the number of years that the company has been paying and raising its dividend, and its five-year Dividend Growth Rate (DGR). Thus, I look at the company’s commitment to growing its dividend as well as its more »

  • Could Sprint Really Lead Smartphones Into the Developing World?

    By Phillip Woolgar - June 18, 2013 | Tickers: AAPL, NOK, S

    Sprint (NYSE: S) made a major move on June 11 when it not only announced its entrance into the smartphone sphere, but that it had cracked the developing world market. 

    The $99 Sprint ZTE Vital is a high mid-range Android smartphone that has spawned a new option for those not able to afford the more expensive iPhones, Androids, and Galaxies. The move comes out of nowhere and puts pressure on more »

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