How to make sense of the forward-looking statements in next week's earnings report
If history is any guide, traders will reward or punish Apple's (AAPL) shares in after-hours trading Monday based not on the quarterly earnings it reports, but on what the company says about the quarter to come -- which will almost certainly be disappointing.
You would think by now that Wall Street had figured out that Apple guides conservatively -- MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Oct 15, 2009 7:31 AM ET
Back to the future: Straight Talk phones like the LG 200C might be dowdy, but growth in the prepaid market could eventually squeeze carrier profits. Photo: LG.
Look out, U.S. wireless carriers: Wal-Mart is teaming up with billionaire Carlos Slim's América Móvil to train its price-crushing might on cell phones.
In time for the holiday season, the mega-retailer on Wednesday announced a nationwide roll-out of the new prepaid Straight Talk service, MORE
Jon Fortt - Oct 15, 2009 7:00 AM ET
Shai Agassi sits at the intersection of Detroit and Silicon Valley. A software engineer who was a contender to run tech giant SAP (SAP) Agassi in 2007 started Better Place, which is building a network of battery-switch stations and other solutions for electric vehicles. (He left SAP partly at the urging of President Bill Clinton and Israeli President Shimon Peres.)
Agassi spoke with me recently about what happens when his two MORE
Stephanie N. Mehta, Executive Editor - Oct 15, 2009 6:00 AM ET
Gartner puts Apple at 8.8%, IDC at 9.4%. This bodes well for next week's earnings report
Source: MacRumors.com
Apple (AAPL) computers sold surprisingly well in a shaky economy last quarter, according to a pair of preliminary reports issued Wednesday by Gartner and IDC.
The big winner this summer was Acer, which became the world's undisputed No. 2 computer maker, after Hewlett-Packard (HPQ), on the strength of netbooks that sell for under $400.
But MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Oct 15, 2009 5:14 AM ET
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Jon Fortt - Oct 14, 2009 1:09 PM ET
President Obama is betting on biofuels and batteries, but that isn't stopping some car makers from investing in hyrdogen-fueled cars.
The "Valley of Death," in auto-industry-speak, is a metaphorical desert where emerging technologies reside while car executives figure out which of the experiments ought to make their way into actual cars.
Every automotive leap forward has done time in the valley: turbochargers, fuel injectors, even gasoline-electric hybrids like Toyota's Prius. Hydrogen-fueled vehicles, MORE
Michael V. Copeland, Senior Writer - Oct 14, 2009 10:51 AM ET
Apple's CEO tops two polls in one week. Will no one rid us of these meddlesome lists?
Photo: Apple Inc.
Last Thursday, Oct. 8, an Agenda Setters panel named Steve Jobs the most influential individual in the global technology industry, ahead of Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, and Barack Obama, President of the United States.
Four days later, a survey of 1,000 tweens and teens ages 12 to MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Oct 14, 2009 7:11 AM ET
Interscope Chairman Jimmy Iovine wants to get the iPod generation hooked on high-quality sound. Photo: Beats by Dr. Dre.
The camera crew is setting up for our interview, and Jimmy Iovine wants me to listen to something on his iPod.
The chairman of Universal Music Group's Interscope Geffen A&M Records is holding forth about how great his Beats Solo headphones sound; and as the overlord of a music empire that includes MORE
Jon Fortt - Oct 14, 2009 7:00 AM ET
After the Vista debacle, Microsoft changed the way it makes software. The result – Windows 7 – is winning raves. Can a new operating system (and a new attitude) help the company take on Google?
With Microsoft's founder and chairman, Bill Gates, trotting the globe in a quest to abolish diseases, his handpicked successor, CEO Steve Ballmer, has had most of a decade to move the company beyond its two MORE
Jeffrey M. O'Brien - Oct 13, 2009 6:00 AM ET
Over the past decade, Mac shipments have grown with nearly every new Microsoft release
As if Steve Ballmer didn't have enough to worry about after last week's Sidekick/Microsoft (MSFT) Danger debacle, here's a bar graph that may add to his miseries.
The graphic (shown full-size below the fold) comes out of a report to clients issued Monday by Broadpoint AmTech analyst Brian Marshall. Anticipating the release of Windows 7 next week (Oct. MORE
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| Ford Motor Co | 12.21 | -0.53 | -4.16% |
| Frontier Communicati... | 4.31 | -0.16 | -3.58% |
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| Treasuries | 1.90 | -0.03 | -1.71% |
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