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Apple Stock Vs. Amazon Stock: Race To A $1 Trillion Valuation
There’s been talk of Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) carrying the iPhone maker to a $1 trillion valuation for more than a year, but talk about Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) has emerged more recently.....
Wal-Mart's Latest E-Commerce Strategy Is a Big Risk
Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT) has been an aggressive player in the e-commerce market over the past 18 months. Since acquiring Jet.com last year and installing Marc Lore as head of U.S. e-commerce, Wal-Mart....
Here's How Apple Inc. Can Differentiate Its OLED iPhones Next Year
KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo recently published a report claiming that Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) is preparing three new iPhones next year. The first will have a 6.1-inch liquid crystal display....
Intel Corp. Planning Gemini Lake Plus Processor for Low-Cost PCs
Soon, chip giant Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) is expected to release a new family of processors, known as Gemini Lake, for the low-cost personal-computer market. The Gemini Lake chips are expected to....
Home Depot Inc. Lifts Its Outlook -- Again -- After Hurricanes Boost Results
Natural disasters depress sales results for most retailers, but they have the opposite impact on Home Depot's (NYSE: HD) operations. That helps explain why the home improvement giant recently....
3 Reasons Intel Corporation Is a Better Value Stock Than Juniper Networks, Inc
Enterprise networking provider Juniper Networks (NYSE: JNPR) was undoubtedly glad to put the month of October in the rearview mirror. The upside of Juniper's nearly 11% share price decline last....
Apple Inc. Boosted R&D Spending Again in Fiscal 2017
Over the last several years, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) has continued to dramatically increase its spending on research and development.Fully funded research and development activities are critically....
What Might Be Next for Disney's ESPN and the NFL?
The beating heart of The Walt Disney Corporation (NYSE: DIS), at least from a financial perspective, is the company's media networks division, which provides approximately half of the company's....
Lithium, Kobalt, Nickel und Kupfer - die wichtigsten Rohstoffe für Elektroautos werden knapp
Der Elektromobilität gehört die Zukunft – darin sind sich fast alle einig. Aber bis Tesla und Co. eine gewichtige Rolle am Automarkt spielen können, wird nach Ansicht von Goldman Sachs mehr Zeit
The Boeing 787 Dreamliner Wins a Huge Victory in Dubai
Last week, in the lead-up to the biennial Dubai Airshow, rumors circulated that Middle Eastern airline giant Emirates was closing in on a repeat order for Airbus' (NASDAQOTH: EADSY) A380 jumbo....
Apple's iPhone X Reportedly Costs $370 to Build
Market analysts with IHS Markit recently published a cost analysis of Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) new iPhone X. The iPhone X with 64 GB of storage is priced at $999, but IHS Markit claims that the....
Here's Why Apple Inc.'s 2018 iPad Pro Won't Have an OLED Screen
Bloomberg recently published an account detailing some of the key specifications of Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) next iPad Pro tablet, slated to launch sometime in the second half of 2018.Per a previous....
Disney Management Talks Theme Parks, International Opportunities, and Thor
Overall, Disney's (NYSE: DIS) third-quarter results last week lacked any big surprises. But Disney's third-quarter earnings call included plenty of interesting fodder for investors to mull over.....
Can Apple, Inc. Sell 4 Million HomePods Next Year?
Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) launches its HomePod next month, the company's response to the growing market for smart speakers powered by virtual assistants. Investors haven't heard much about the device....
Here's Why Intel Corp. Is Building Discrete Graphics Processors
A few days ago, chip giant Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) announced that it had formed a new group called the Core and Visual Computing Group. One of the charters of this newly formed group will be to....
Apple Inc. Set to Slash iPhone 8 Production
According to generally reliable KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo (via MacRumors), Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) is set to reduce the production of the iPhone 8, which first went up for sale on Sept. 22,....
Disney Theme Parks Come to the Rescue
A silver lining in Walt Disney's (NYSE: DIS) otherwise unimpressive quarterly report last week was the performance of its theme parks. Of the media giant's four segments, its parks and resorts....
JPMorgan Chase Acquires WePay: What Investors Need to Know
In October, America's largest bank, JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM), made a massive acquisition in the financial technology space when it paid an undisclosed sum to acquire WePay. WePay....
Forget the iPhone X, Apple May Be Looking Ahead to This
There's lots of buzz around Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) new iPhone X right now, and there should be. The device has an amazing edge-to-edge display, is powered by a new A11 Bionic neural engine chip....
First Details Emerge of Apple Inc.’s 2018 iPad Pro
Bloomberg published a report on Nov. 8 detailing the key features with which Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) plans to endow its next-generation iPad Pro tablet. The report claims that the new tablet will be....
Why Wal-Mart Stores Stock Jumped 11.7% in October
Shares of Wal-Mart Stores (NYSE: WMT) popped nearly 12% last month, according to data from S&P Global Market Intelligence. The retail behemoth announced a massive new share-repurchase program....
Will 2018 Be Procter & Gamble's Best Year Yet?
It's a safe bet that Procter & Gamble's (NYSE: PG) management team is happy to close the books on 2017. Sales have been sluggish, competition was fierce, and the company narrowly beat back an....
Intel Corp. CEO Says Nervana AI Chip Revenue Comes Next Year
In summer 2016, chip giant Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) announced it would acquire a company called Nervana to accelerate its efforts in the small-but-fast-growing market for artificial intelligence and....
Disney Shares More Info on its Netflix-Like Streaming Service
Investors are very interested in Walt Disney's (NYSE: DIS) plans for its upcoming streaming service -- so much so that Disney stock initially traded about 3% lower following the company's....
So, This Is What the End of Obamacare Looks Like
For better or worse, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has been the law of the land since it was signed into law in March 2010 and officially was enacted in the individual insurance markets in 2014.In....