Research in Motion's loss is Apple's gain, as the stock closes at $400.50 for the day
Apple's (AAPL) shares jumped Friday morning in reaction to Research in Motion's (RIMM) earnings report the night before. The iPhone 5 will "steamroll" the new BlackBerry 7, wrote Ticonderoga's Brian White in a morning-after note to clients. "We believe it is only a matter of time before the iPhone and iPad challenge RIMM's enterprise dominance."
Apple MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Sep 16, 2011 12:33 PM ET
Sony's tablet could be the next to stumble, says another
BlackBerry PlayBook
Wall Street's best and brightest are expressing varying degrees of shock at the news Thursday that Research in Motion (RIMM), which delivered 500,000 BlackBerry PlayBook tablets in the quarter that ended in May, shipped a dismal 200,000 in the August quarter -- suggesting that most of those first half-million units are still sitting, unsold, on store shelves.
"We believe the MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Sep 16, 2011 10:31 AM ET
From the storefronts of high-end boutiques to the billboards in Times Square, the black and white codes are nearly ubiquitous. Marketers love them but are they really getting much out of them?
By Alex Kantrowitz, contributor
FORTUNE -- They're everywhere: tucked away in magazines, adorning business cards and t-shirts and splashed across posters and billboards, not to mention on display at The Museum of Modern Art. Clearly, so-called QR codes -- small MORE
Sep 16, 2011 10:30 AM ET
IBTimes plays for page views by playing both sides of the iPhone vs. Android divide
Source: IBTimes
The International Business Times, a thinly-staffed online "newspaper" based in New York City, has hit on the perfect formula for covering the smartphone wars.
On Wednesday, under the byline IB Times Staff Reporter, it published 10 Reasons Why iPhone 5 will be Beaten by Samsung Galaxy S2, pegged to Sprint's scheduled launch Friday of Samsung's MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Sep 16, 2011 7:59 AM ET
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* Google (GOOG) is reportedly developing a competitor to the popular curated news app, Flipboard, with a project dubbed "Propeller." Sources tell Robert Scoble that it's "mind-blowing good." (All Things D and Robert Scoble via Google +)
* BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion (RIMM) reported lower-than-expected revenues and profits for its latest quarter, telling MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter - Sep 16, 2011 7:50 AM ET
Praised for trying to make Apple's iOS devices accessible to people with disabilities
Photo: Ann Johansson/Getty Images
At a Stevie Wonder tribute in Los Angeles' Echo Park last Saturday, the 22-time Grammy winner took the stage briefly to sing a few bars and talk to the audience about Sept. 11, the power of love and Apple's (AAPL) Steve Jobs:
"And I want you all to give a hand to someone that you MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Sep 15, 2011 7:04 PM ET
Word leaked that the three players may work together in the ad space -- and the initial reaction is nothing short of discouraging.
FORTUNE -- Could the news that Microsoft (MSFT), Yahoo (YHOO) and AOL (AOL) are planning to join together to sell ads on each other's sites be a trial balloon –- a leak designed to test reaction?
If so, the early responses aren't so encouraging. AllThingsD broke the news on MORE
Dan Mitchell, contributor - Sep 15, 2011 2:30 PM ET
Nathan Myhrvold, the CEO of Intellectual Ventures, has become the face of patent litigation in the tech space. He told Fortune why his business is good.
By Daniel Roberts, reporter
FORTUNE -- The following transcript is edited from a phone conversation with Nathan Myhrvold, founder and CEO of Intellectual Ventures, often cited as the biggest firm among a group of so-called non-practicing entities or NPEs. Such companies frequently buy up patents without MORE
Sep 15, 2011 11:36 AM ET
The Apple logo is now worth $39.3 billion according to Brand Finance
30 Top U.S. Brands. Click to enlarge. Source: Brand Finance
Microsoft (MSFT) is down 9% to $39 billion. Google (GOOG) is up 9% to nearly $48.3 billion. But Apple (AAPL) is way up -- 33% -- to overtake, for the first time, Microsoft, IBM (IBM), Wal-Mart (WMT) and General Electric (GE).
Those are the highlights of the interim brand value MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Sep 15, 2011 11:17 AM ETSpeculation and rumors about an Apple-branded television are rampant. Here's what most of them don't get right.
FORTUNE -- Thanks to Apple's famous secrecy, when it comes to the company's plans for future products, there's always more speculation than information.
That's the case with whatever Apple (AAPL) might be cooking up for television. It's obviously doing something, but nobody can quite tell what it is. Steve Jobs has publicly stated the company's MORE
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| Ford Motor Co | 12.28 | -0.46 | -3.61% |
| Frontier Communicati... | 4.20 | -0.27 | -6.04% |
| Juniper Networks Inc... | 21.65 | -0.72 | -3.22% |
| Cisco Systems Inc | 19.58 | -0.25 | -1.26% |
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