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Apple’s warning signs
Investors should take a long, hard look at Apple (AAPL) shares before jumping into the stock, writes Brett Arends of The Wall Street Journal.A better investment in smartphones might be in network operators, which are cheap, he writes. Those include Ver…
What if Apple misses earnings?
Wall Street believes that Apple (AAPL) will make $1.42 a share for the quarter that just ended on $9.2 billion in revenue. Both figures would be well over 10% higher than a year ago. Apple would have to sell about of 2.9 million Macs, 10.5 millio…
Four Companies Set to Profit from a Federal Cash Injection
What do Cisco Systems (Nasdaq: CSCO), IBM (NYSE: IBM), AT&T (NYSE: T) and Intel (Nasdaq: INTC) all have in common?
The obvious answer is that they’re four of the most successful technology companies on the planet.
But they’re also heavily involved in the modernization plans for America’s “Smart Grid” – a topic I introduced in a previous column.
Make no mistake, with a decade-long project as monumental as modernizing the country’s “Smart Grid,” the devil is truly in the details. And the Commerce Department released the finer details of the initiative last week.
Until now, one of the big problems with the “Smart Grid” was the lack of set standards. Without them, each power company would be free to do as it pleases, resulting in a hodge-podge of…
Apple talks to world’s largest cell company
Apple (AAPL) has a deal with China Unicom (CHU) to sell its iPhone on the mainland. The deal, however, is not exclusive. The head of China Mobile (CHL), which has 500 million subscribers and is the world’s largest cellular company, says his firm is i…
Is the iPhone a bust for AT&T?
There are two ways to look at the economic relationship between Apple (AAPL) and AT&T (T) and both may be accurate. AT&T says it has signed up 10 million subscribers to buy the iPhone and take its long-term cellular calling plans. Many of those…
US well behind Korean broadband
American Internet speeds are slow, very slow, by international standards. That may be one reason the $787 billion economic stimulus package has a large financial commitment to building broadband infrastructure.
The U.S. ranks 28th among large countries…
Rising stars: 5 nearly great stocks
This post comes from Rich Duprey at partner site The Motley Fool.
Some companies are obviously great investments — in hindsight. Yet for every stock screaming “Buy me!” others simply give us a nudge and a nod.
How can we isolate tomorrow’s great inves…