After living in the shadows of Microsoft for 30 years, Apple is just a hair behind Microsoft in sales. Will this quarter be the one?
by Andy M. Zaky, contributor
Whether it deserves it or not, Apple has held onto its lead over Microsoft in terms of market capitalization since it first surpassed it back in May. While it may be bigger in value thanks to a meteoric stock surge, MORE
Jul 19, 2010 9:14 AM ET
The "wisdom of crowds" stock-picking site shows a sharp drop over the past three months
Click to enlarge. Source: Piqqem
In a report timed for release the day before Apple's (AAPL) fiscal Q3 earnings report, Piqqem's Jett Winter charts a sharp decline in investor opinion as measured by his crowd-driven stock selection service.
"In a stunning turn of events," he writes, "sentiment for Apple has dropped 15 points to the lowest level MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jul 19, 2010 8:00 AM ET
A slowdown in daily sales has some investors worried about fourth-quarter results
Photo: Engadget
To support his contention that the press had blown the iPhone 4's antenna issues wildly out of proportion, Steve Jobs announced at his July 16th press conference that Apple (AAPL) had sold "well over" 3 million units in three weeks.
That sounds like a lot. But is it?
Not compared with the astonishing 1.7 million iPhone 4s -- including MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jul 19, 2010 7:51 AM ET
The svelte Samsung's Galaxy S platform comes to U.S. shores with an amazing 4-inch Super AMOLED display.
Seeing Samsung's new Galaxy S hardware on a web site just doesn't do it justice. You have to pick one up to just feel how light they are and how beautiful the four-inch display looks almost better than reality. I've been using both the T-Mobile Vibrant and AT&T Captivate for the past week and have to MORE
Seth Weintraub - Jul 18, 2010 1:56 PM ET
The company was quick to post the "Antennagate" press conference. It's about that link ...
[UPDATE: The problem I describe below was fixed shortly after this was posted, which may explain why so many readers suggested in their comments that I'd finally lost my marbles.]
I'm as sick of writing about the iPhone 4's antenna as you probably are of reading about it. But since nobody else seems to have taken note MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jul 18, 2010 9:55 AM ET
In an email sent to the press, Google sets the stage for an announcement a new product of some sort.
Please join us on Tuesday, July 20th for a brief press event at Google's office in San Francisco. Marissa Mayer, VP of Search Products and User Experience, will be speaking, and we'll be introducing a few new things we think you'll be interested to see. We'll kick off with a continental breakfast MORE
Seth Weintraub - Jul 17, 2010 11:44 PM ET
Lost in the iPhone apology announcement excitement yesterday was a big Google acquisition.
Google announced it had purchased Metaweb for an undisclosed sum yesterday. Metaweb is a company that organizes data on the web by 'entity'. What's that? Cue the video:
Metaweb should add some intelligence to Google's search engine algorithms. But that's not all they get.
Seth Weintraub - Jul 17, 2010 9:21 PM ET
The fourth in a series of previews of Apple's results for the third fiscal quarter of 2010
Click to enlarge. Source: Company reports
Between a Steve Jobs keynote in June that ignored it and media feeding frenzy in July that had nothing to do with it, one might almost forget that Apple (AAPL) makes a line of computers called Macintosh.
But it will be hard to ignore the Mac on Tuesday MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jul 17, 2010 11:46 AM ET
A sampling of opinions -- the good, the bad and the ugly
Photo: Apple Inc.
Given how much attention Apple (AAPL) was getting before Steve Jobs' "Antennagate" press conference Friday -- CNBC greeted it with a countdown clock and eight simultaneous talking heads -- it's not surprising that his performance got widely reviewed. We counted 131 headlines on Techmeme Saturday morning, not including the 52 links to live blogs of the MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jul 17, 2010 6:52 AM ET
Google receives its last shipment of Nexus Ones
Google announced today that they would soon be closing the Nexus One store and would cease selling Nexus Ones to the public. Google (GOOG) would make additional Nexus One devices available to developers through its Android developer program.
Support will still be offered to Nexus One customers:
Customer support will still be available for current Nexus One customers. And Nexus One will continue to be sold MORE
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