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Apple Music Subscribers Climb to 30 Million
In a new interview with Billboard, Apple Music lead Jimmy Iovine said the tech giant's streaming service subscriber count has hit a fresh high of over 30 million subscribers, climbing from 27....
Amazon.com Just Expanded Its Smart Home Lead Over Apple and Google
Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) has emerged as a somewhat unexpected leader in the smart home market, thanks to Alexa and its growing portfolio of Echo devices. Rivals like Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) and....
3 Tech Stocks That Could Dominate the Future
Technology is no longer restricted to going online with a mobile device, shopping on e-commerce sites, or playing graphics-intensive games on a smartphone. Tech trends have rapidly advanced in....
Apple Cements Google's Position as the King of Mobile Search
The shift to mobile was a major challenge for Google. Many investors worried that lower average ad prices, compared to desktop ads, would put a major damper on revenue growth for the Alphabet....
Amazon Doubles Down on Alexa With New Devices
Amazon's (NASDAQ: AMZN) launch of its first smart speaker three years ago took the world by surprise. Since its launch, Amazon's Echo family of smart-speaker devices has quickly risen in....
Forget STMicroelectronics -- Himax is a Better Augmented Reality Stock
The market for augmented reality (AR) devices, which project digital objects onto real world surfaces, could generate a lot of revenue over the next few years. Tech M&A advisory firm....
1 Big Apple Inc. A11 Bionic Chip Mystery Revealed
During Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) Sept. 12 product launch event, the company revealed an interesting detail about its custom-designed A11 Bionic chip that's at the heart of every iPhone 8, iPhone 8....
Why Lumentum Holdings Is a Risky Bet Despite iPhone Gains
Lumentum Holdings (NASDAQ: LITE) has set the stock market on fire this year as anticipation that it might win big with Apple's latest-generation iPhones fueled its rise. The optical components....
Why Delphi Automotive Will Soon Have Two New Names
Giant auto-industry supplier Delphi Automotive (NYSE: DLPH), a leader in the emerging self-driving technology space, said on Wednesday that it will soon have a new name. More accurately, it will....
Amazon.com Unveils New Echo Products: What You Need to Know
E-commerce giant Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) hosted a busy product unveiling today, unveiling a slew of devices to refresh its lineup as we approach the busy holiday shopping season. This comes a....
Well, That Was Fast: Intel Scraps Project Alloy
The virtual reality (VR) market is just starting to take off, but Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) is already winding down its plans to develop an all-in-one VR headset, called Project Alloy, just a year....
Intel Corporation Reportedly Snatches Tesla Inc. Biz Away From NVIDIA Corp.
One market segment that many chip-makers have been rushing to capitalize on is automotive.The car market is mature, but the computing content inside the average car continues to climb, driven by....
Google Strengthens Cloud Identity Management With Bitium Buy
In recent years, the number of various online services that enterprises have to tap into has proliferated, which has created a market for cloud-based enterprise identity management to help manage,....
3 Stocks for Warren Buffett Fans
Warren Buffett is well known for his long-term investment perspective, and Berkshire Hathaway's portfolio includes a number of stocks worth consideration for retail investors' buy-and-hold....
The Economics of Intel Corp.’s Coffee Lake Chip
Late on Sept. 24, chip giant Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) announced a new processor family, known as Coffee Lake, for the desktop personal computer market. These chips are notable because they offer....
Is Texas Instruments' 24% Dividend Increase Too Extreme?
There are dividend raises, and there are dividend raises. Texas Instruments' (NASDAQ: TXN) latest hike falls squarely into the second category -- the veteran analog chipmaker announced a nearly....
Here's How to Find the Best Dividend Stocks
Owning stocks that pay dividends can be an incredibly profitable part of your investing strategy, but not every dividend stock is created equal. If you want to find the best dividend stocks, you....
Apple Could Go To $160
In last night’s commentary, we noted that it had appeared that Apple had found a bottom, and for today at least it did. The shares of Apple jumped higher on the day by roughly 2 percent and closed....
Yield Rates for iPhone X Components Are Terrible Right Now
Stories detailing Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone X delays just keep coming in -- we're talking about two fresh reports thus far this week, and it's only Tuesday.Various component suppliers are....
IBM CEO Defends Watson Against Critics
International Business Machines (NYSE: IBM) has invested billions of dollars in Watson, its cognitive computing system that made a name for itself by winning Jeopardy! back in 2011. Watson is....
Why Apple, Inc. Jacked Up iPhone 8 and 8 Plus Prices
Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) is exercising its pricing power this year in a big way -- and in more ways than one. The most obvious example is the iPhone X and its $1,000 price tag, but the iPhone 8 and 8....
Apple Should Buy GoPro
One of the best arguments against GoPro's (NASDAQ: GPRO) cameras for the past few years has been the fact that most people have products like an Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone in their pocket at all....
Apple, Inc.'s Siri Won't Bing It for You Anymore
When Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) scored a deal with Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) to make its Bing search engine the default provider for Siri way back in 2013 with iOS 7, it was a pretty big deal. It was....
Is the Apple Inc. iPhone 8 a Failure?
A quick check of Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) online store reveals something that at first glance might be alarming to Apple investors: The iPhone 8 and its larger sibling, the iPhone 8 Plus, are in....
3 Things I Love About the Apple Inc. iPhone 8 Plus
On Sept. 22, my new Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone 8 Plus finally arrived. Although both the iPhone 8 and 8 Plus have been accused of being relatively minor enhancements over their respective....