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Today in Tech: Could IBM's Watson become Siri for businesses?
Samsung plans to fight court injunction of its products; the Winklevoss twins splurge on $18 million L.A. mansion.
IBM envisions Watson as supercharged Siri for businesses [BLOOMBERG]
Bernie Meyerson, IBM's vice president of innovation, envisions a voice-activated Watson that answers questions, like a supercharged version of Apple Inc. Siri personal assistant. A farmer could stand in a field and ask his phone, "When should I plant my corn?" He would get a reply in seconds, MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Aug 28, 2012 12:22 PM ET -
Tech investors brace for a cruel summer
The living will most definitely not be easy. A sense of deep unease is settling in among technology investors as second-quarter earnings approach.
By Kevin Kelleher, contributor
FORTUNE – Summertime may be when the living is easy for many people, but not for tech investors this year. As the time draws near for many companies to report their second-quarter earnings, a last-minute sense of unease is setting in among investors and analysts.
Since MORE
Jul 13, 2012 9:50 AM ET -
Wall Street's price targets for Apple go down and up
Strange fluctuations in the last days of the company's third fiscal quarter
FORTUNE -- With Apple's (AAPL) 2012 Q3 set to close on Saturday, analysts are making some last-minute adjustments. Two caught our eye because they moved in opposite directions to nearly the same place.
Pacific Crest's Andy Hargreaves on Friday raised his 12-month price target to $690 from $630 on the strength of what he estimates will be strong sales of MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jun 29, 2012 2:46 PM ET -
Silicon Valley's new fashion: The stock dividend
Over the past two decades, investing earnings in buybacks or future growth has trumped the stodgy old dividend and nowhere more so than in the tech industry. That is changing.
By Kevin Kelleher, contributor
FORTUNE -- As long as there have been dividends, there have been arguments between shareholders and company managers over whether to pay them. The strongest argument against paying dividends was profit growth: If a company can reinvest MORE
Jun 29, 2012 6:44 AM ET -
The agony of Japan Inc.
Companies like Apple, IBM and Microsoft once stood in the shadow of much larger and more powerful Japanese electronics giants. Those days are long gone -- and, lately, it looks like they may never come back.
By Kevin Kelleher, contributor
"This country is in a war and some people understand it and some people are siding with the enemy."
FORTUNE -- Believe it or not, someone once wrote those paranoid words about MORE
May 25, 2012 10:40 AM ET -
Why Warren Buffett wouldn't invest in Apple or Google
The Oracle of Omaha has a second rule: Don't buy companies you don't understand
FORTUNE -- Some 18,300 people -- more than attended Barack Obama's massive campaign kickoff Saturday -- showed up for Berkshire Hathaway's (BRK-A) annual shareholder's meeting in Omaha yesterday. And judging from the New York Times' live blog, it was a lot of fun. There were cartoons and comedic skits and celebrity appearances, including Bono, Bill Gates and Debbie ("Buffett Rule") Bosanek, MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - May 6, 2012 11:34 AM ETPosted in: Apple, Barack Obama, Berkshire Hathaway, Bill Gates, Google, IBM, New York Times, Warren Buffett -
Why the market shrugged off the Apple antitrust suit
Shares opened higher, despite news the company may have stepped in legal quicksand
Having Justice Department lawyers around, veteran tech watcher Dana Blankenhorn reminds us in a Seeking Alpha post this morning, "is bad for any company. Especially antitrust lawyers. Especially tech companies."
"Every tech company the Justice Department has ever gone after -- IBM (IBM), the former AT&T (T), and (most especially) Microsoft (MSFT) can attest to this fact. All were transformed and MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Apr 11, 2012 11:20 AM ET -
Today in Tech: Will Sony lay off thousands of employees?
Fortune's curated selection of tech stories from the weekend. Sign up to get the round-up delivered to you each and every day. * Just who exactly is new Research in Motion (RIMM) CEO Thorsten Heins, and how does he intend to turn around the struggling smartphone company? An inside look. (Bloomberg Businessweek) * Sony (SNE) reportedly plans to eliminate 10,000 jobs, or 6% of its workforce, as early as December reports Nikkei. (Nikkei via Reuters) * IBM's MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Apr 9, 2012 3:30 AM ET -
Wall Street raised its Apple estimates 24.4% in 90 days
But even at $600 a share, the company's stock price still seems out of whack
Apple's (AAPL) second fiscal quarter ends Saturday, and although the market spent Friday morning knocking the stuffing out of its share price (Apple fell back below $600 in mid-morning trading), Wall Street remains bullish on Tim Cook's company.
How do we know? We've watched the analysts' Q2 estimates for Apple climb more than 24% in the past MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Mar 30, 2012 11:40 AM ET -
Today in Tech: Big T-Mobile layoffs coming
Fortune's curated selection of tech stories from the last 24 hours. Sign up to get the round-up delivered to you each and every day.
* T-Mobile USA CEO Philipp Humm told employees that the company is eliminating 5% of its workforce, or nearly 1,900 jobs in the U.S., and closing seven call centers as part of a reorganization. The announcement comes three months after AT&T's planned acquisition of T-Mobile fell through. (The Verge)
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JP Mangalindan, Writer - Mar 23, 2012 3:30 AM ET
