He's a Romanian blogger with a Harvard MBA who lives in Finland. Go figure.
Horace Dediu. Photo: Rami Salle
What if you took all the estimates by all the analysts who write about Apple (AAPL) -- and there are dozens -- and ranked them by how closely their predictions matched the company's quarterly earnings reports. Would you be interested in who came in first?
Daniel Tello, a Venezuelan amateur with a strong MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Oct 22, 2010 7:48 AM ET
"This is a meeting the President was interested in having," said his spokesman.
Obama in Seattle, signing an iPad, before heading to San Francisco
The White House has confirmed a story that was echoing through the blogosphere all afternoon: President Obama did indeed meet with Apple (AAPL) CEO Steve Jobs in a San Francisco hotel Thursday.
The President was on his way from Seattle to two Bay Area fundraisers -- one at MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Oct 21, 2010 6:43 PM ET
Kleiner Perkins thinks we're in a third wave of technology. Doerr, Zuckerberg, Bezos and Pincus are throwing a $250 million "party" in order to ride it.
The last time venture capitalist John Doerr opined that a technology wave was about to sweep over the globe it was just before the height of the Internet bubble in the 1990s, when he pronounced that the Internet was under-hyped. Yes, there was Internet startup MORE
Michael V. Copeland, Senior Writer - Oct 21, 2010 5:38 PM ET
The company's revenues may have exploded, but its operating costs have not.
Source: Asymco, using calendar quarters. Click to enlarge.
As they grow larger, most enterprises tend to get a little soft around the belly.
Not Apple (AAPL). In the past five years, while its revenues were growing more than 250% -- from $5.75 billion in Q4 2005 to more than $20 billion last quarter -- its operating expenses actually MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Oct 21, 2010 2:36 PM ET
At the annual Pop!Tech convention, failure is everywhere. That's a good thing.
Would he get out if he were with his friends? (Photo: Wollombi/Flickr)
The Rube Goldberg-like contraption that was supposed to launch the Pop!Tech 2010 failed this morning. A robot took the stage and attempted to start a chain of amusing events—a ball rolling down a track, stacks of books and chairs tumbling domino style, bi-planes flying, culminating with a MORE
Josh Quittner - Oct 21, 2010 1:00 PM ET
The new smartphone OS from Microsoft is receiving praise for usability on par with iPhone and Android's experiences. But to reel consumers in, Microsoft will have to court app developers first.
Image by Michele Ficara Manganelli via Flickr
In an exploding market where an estimated $6.2 billion will be spent on 4.5 billion mobile apps this year alone, consumers find themselves essentially deluged with a large selection of smartphones powered by MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter - Oct 21, 2010 11:39 AM ET
Apple's video calling app, now on the Mac, is poised for exponential growth, says an analyst
Source: Deutsche Bank. Click to enlarge.
"We believe Apple is acutely aware of the power of networks (Metcalf's Law), and is applying this concept to accelerate adoption of its platform."
So writes Deutsche Bank's Chris Whitmore in a note issued Thursday, the day after Apple's (AAPL) Back to the Mac event.
Whitmore is talking about FaceTime, the MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Oct 21, 2010 8:20 AM ET
Every day, the Fortune staff spends hours poring over tech stories, posts, and reviews from all over the Web to keep tabs on the companies that matter. We've assembled the day's most newsworthy bits below.
"Change just happens with new management and it's actually refreshing for all of us. So 15,000 employees, three people left? That's OK."
-- Yahoo's Carol Bartz on Fox Business News (Media Channel)
Photo: David Paul MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter - Oct 21, 2010 8:10 AM ET
Sixty three percent are male, well-connected early adopters, according to Nielsen
Source: The Nielsen Co. Click to enlarge.
UPDATE: Nielsen takes it all back. The percentage of iPad owners who have never downloaded an app is 9%, not 32%, according to their revised press release. Kinda takes the steam out of the post. Their new, corrected chart at right. For howls of outrage that Nielsen could have led the London tabloid MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Oct 21, 2010 8:00 AM ET
The project started by writer Dan Savage in the wake of gay teen tragedies, is not only hosted by Google's YouTube, but it has gotten support from its employees.
From Dan Savage's blog a few weeks ago following the suicide of an Indiana teen came the idea for GLBT adults to tell kids that things would get better. Using YouTube, they have.
"My heart breaks for the pain and torment you went MORE
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| Bank of America Corp... | 7.24 | -0.06 | -0.86% |
| Ford Motor Co | 12.26 | -0.48 | -3.75% |
| Frontier Communicati... | 4.22 | -0.25 | -5.59% |
| Juniper Networks Inc... | 21.62 | -0.75 | -3.33% |
| Cisco Systems Inc | 19.59 | -0.24 | -1.21% |
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| Dow | 12,663.49 | -71.14 | -0.56% |
| Nasdaq | 2,812.82 | 7.54 | 0.27% |
| S&P 500 | 1,315.83 | -2.60 | -0.20% |
| Treasuries | 1.91 | -0.02 | -1.09% |
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