According to Chitika Labs, unit sales hit seven figures on the fourteenth day
Source: Chitika Labs
[UPDATE: A few hours after this was posted, Chitika -- without explanation -- reset its counter to about 700,000. As the kids say: Fail.]
It happened Saturday night around 8:00 p.m. EDT. That's when the big iPad counter that Chitika Labs has been running since April 5 rolled over like an odometer to 1,000,000.
If anywhere near MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Apr 17, 2010 8:05 PM ET
$267 a share, according to Trefis.com's model. But feel free to build your own.
Source: Trefis.com
The analysts at Trefis figure that the iPhone accounts for 51.5% and the iPad only 4.3% of Apple's (AAPL) fair market value, which they estimate at about $267 a share -- nearly $20 above Friday's closing price.
How do we know? Because their model of the company (right) -- fully interactive and satisfyingly drillable -- is MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Apr 17, 2010 4:32 PM ET
Final round of Rice Competition starting now. Six Teams have 15 minutes to present; 10 minutes for questions. Finalists include three medical companies, two from the microchip industries, and one with optical technology: BiologicsMD, Ambiq Micro, GlucaGo, Rebellion Photonics, Reveal Design Automation, OrthoIntrinsics --Jessica Shambora
First up: BiologicsMD
Rice competition finalists are on the clock for presentations. Photo: Jessica Shambora
Developing OsteoFlor, a new prescription medication for treatment for Osteoporosis.
"You're not MORE
Jessica Shambora, Writer-Reporter - Apr 17, 2010 1:42 PM ET
A hallway at Rice's Jones Graduate School of Business. Photo: Jessica Shambora
Rice is ranked No.5 among graduate entrepreneurship programs in the U.S. by Princeton Review. Wonder if it has anything to do with these fancy lockers? What do they keep in there? --Jessica Shambora
Jessica Shambora, Writer-Reporter - Apr 17, 2010 12:21 PM ET
A pair of domestic animals put Apple's latest creation to the test
Video: Eric Rautio
After baby meets iPad come the inevitable dog and cat videos.
The first, featuring Eric Rautio's cat Iggy (3 million YouTube hits and counting), is the most interesting, especially when Iggy starts fiddling around with Smule's Magic Piano. You never know when you start playing Magic Piano duets with strangers in cyberspace who's banging on the other MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Apr 17, 2010 10:06 AM ET
The fourth in a series of previews of Apple's results for fiscal Q2 2010
Source: Company reports; Thomson Financial consensus est.
Over the past week we've sampled analysts' expectation for Apple's (AAPL) iPhone, Mac and iPod sales over the fiscal quarter that ended March 27.
Today we look at the bottom line -- revenue and earnings per share -- for what should be the company's best second quarter ever, especially given how MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Apr 17, 2010 8:26 AM ET
by Jessica Shambora
During the first round of competition at Rice on Friday, one audience saw business plans ranging from a Netflix for maternity wear, to a better tool for identifying bugs in semiconductor chips. The assembled judges, including investors, attorneys and past winners, asked questions and offered feedback. Here are some key lessons that emerged:
1. Action speaks louder than words: Even if it's very basic, do an alpha test to MORE
Jessica Shambora, Writer-Reporter - Apr 17, 2010 12:24 AM ET
by Jessica Shambora
The Rice Business Plan Competition kicked off in Houston Thursday night with an elevator pitch contest. All 43 teams had one minute to pitch their plans. Each asked for a specific dollar amount; some suggested a valuation and exit strategy; a few even promised 40x returns!
While there were designated judges for the competition (including VCs and high school students), audience members with the event's iPhone app got to MORE
Jessica Shambora, Writer-Reporter - Apr 16, 2010 5:24 PM ET
Friday's 1.52 point drop was its first loss since April 8
Apple (AAPL) had a down day on Wall Street Friday, an occurrence that has become so rare lately investors don't quite know what to make of it.
The stock closed at $247.40, down .61% on a day in which the Dow dropped 1.13%.
Apple's share price had been on a tear since late January, when stock took a hit -- closing at MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Apr 16, 2010 5:05 PM ET
Also, 63% own Macs, 8.5% iPhones, 2.89% Linux boxes and 1.3% Android phones
Click to enlarge. Source: Chitika Labs
Dan Ruby at Chitika Labs -- the folks who run the much revised live iPad tracker (907,000 as of Friday afternoon) -- sent along the bar chart at right.
It shows, based on a survey of nearly 75,000 early iPad adopters, some of the non-Apple (AAPL) devices they own.
To Ruby's surprise, more than MORE
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