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How Apple's cash hoard gets to $200 billion by next year
With that, it could buy Intel, HP and Dell and still have change left over
FORTUNE -- Bullish Cross' Andy Zaky has published his estimates for Apple's (AAPL) projected growth in cash and marketable securities through the end of fiscal 2013.
If Apple's earnings grow as he expects, the company's holdings -- currently at $110 billion -- will reach $205 billion by September 2013. That's more than the combined market caps of MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jun 1, 2012 10:59 AM ET -
Free download: The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs
Mike Daisey has released the script of his controversial monologue on the Internet
UPDATE: Anybody who is interested in Mike Daisey's work should first listen to the retraction prepared by This American Life here.
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Even as he performs an extended stay of his monologue The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs at the New York Public Theater, Mike Daisey has done a rare thing for a professional writer and MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Feb 22, 2012 4:16 PM ET -
Intel's (latest) mobile comeback
CEO Paul Otellini thinks he's finally found a way to get Intel into the mobile game. Will phone makers take his call?
FORTUNE -- There are two kinds of CEOs: Those who love the spotlight and those who hate it. Paul Otellini, chief executive officer of Intel, falls into the latter category. But in January, as he stood in front of several thousand people at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las MORE
Michal Lev-Ram, writer - Feb 21, 2012 5:00 AM ET -
A year of transition for Microsoft and Intel
Intel and Microsoft helped usher in the era of personal computers. Now the two companies are reinventing themselves in an industry where PCs are no longer the primary driver of innovation and growth.
FORTUNE -- Both Microsoft and Intel are still money-making machines--they raked in $20.9 billion and $13.9 billion, respectively, in quarterly earnings announced on Wednesday. But their core businesses are increasingly under threat because they're largely dependent on demand for desktops MORE
Michal Lev-Ram, writer - Jan 20, 2012 10:06 AM ET -
Today in Tech: Research in Motion's troubles continue
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* The real story behind former Windows Mobile head Andy Lees' removal from his role. According to The Verge, Lees' lofty, public estimates for Windows Phone 7's success -- and the hard reality that it hasn't made much of a dent in the market -- created a rift. (The MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Dec 15, 2011 3:30 AM ETPosted in: BlackBerry, Flipboard, Google, IBM, Intel, ReadWriteWeb, Research in Motion, SAY Media, SurveyMonkey, Xbox -
Today in Tech: Kindle Fire comes under attack
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* AOL CEO Tim Armstrong is reorganizing the Internet company. Its dial-up services will be merged with Web services, which includes AOL Instant Messenger. The other three divisions will include advertising, local services, and the Huffington Post media group. (Bloomberg)
* Amazon's Kindle Fire has come under, well, fire, over some MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Dec 13, 2011 2:00 AM ET -
The global supply chain: So very fragile
Manufacturers have spent years building low-cost global supply chains. Natural disasters are showing them just how delicate those networks really are.
By Bill Powell, editor-at-large
FORTUNE -- The image to the right is almost surreal: It shows part of a Honda auto factory in central Thailand, one of the largest in Southeast Asia, swamped under 15 feet of water, brand-new cars floating in the currents. The devastating November flooding in Thailand, which MORE
Dec 12, 2011 11:21 AM ETPosted in: Apple, automakers, Hewlett-Packard, honda, Intel, Japan earthquake, natural disasters, Nissan, supply chains, Thai floods, Toyota -
Does Intel's ultrabook stand a chance?
Intel is prodding PC manufacturers to make better ultra-thin and light laptops like Apple's MacBook Air. But the concept faces strong headwinds -- and tough competition.
FORTUNE -- When Apple launched the MacBook Air, it got flack: not fast enough, not enough ports, too pricey, the optional external optical disc drive had as much portable appeal as a brick. Fast-forward three years, and the current version of the Air has become MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Sep 12, 2011 12:13 PM ETPosted in: Apple, Asus, DisplaySearch, iMac, Intel, Intel Corporation, iTunes, Lenovo, MacBook Air, Toshiba, ultrabook -
Exit Quicken, pursued by a Lion
Having let the Mac version languish, Intuit prepares for the death of its flagship product
My first three entries in Quicken, dated Sept. 8, 1997, were a $17.31 payment to Bell Atlantic (remember them?) marked "Philip's modem" (remember those?) and $15 for my annual subscription to the Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link in Sausalito, Calif., which for many years was my only conduit onto the Internet.
I've been a loyal user of Intuit's MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jul 8, 2011 12:25 PM ETPosted in: Apple, Hypercritical, iBank, Intel, Intuit, John Siracusa, Lion, Mac OS, Macintosh, Mint, PCs, PowerPC, Quicken, Quicken Essentials, Snow Leopard, software, Windows 3.0 -
The 3 most undervalued tech stocks: Google, Apple, IBM
By the same "PEG" measure, the 3 most overvalued are Amazon, Cisco and Netflix
Here's a simple exercise suggested by one of my readers.
Take a stock you're interested in and calculate its price/earnings to growth ratio, better known as its PEG ratio. The formula looks like this:
According to Peter Lynch, who popularized the measure, the P/E ratio of any company that's fairly priced will equal its growth rate. In other words, MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jun 19, 2011 7:08 AM ET
