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Five Predictions for 2012
Monday, December 5, 2011 - 11:02am | 1667What can we expect from Apple, Zynga, and insider trading reform in the coming year? It's almost hard to believe that we are less than 30 days away from 2012. But after the confetti has settled and people drag their drunken bodies back to their homes and apartments, we will be faced with another...
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How Soon Will Research in Motion Die?
Friday, December 2, 2011 - 10:10am | 1008The impossibly imperiled smartphone manufacturer has taken another hit this morning as the company reduces its Q3 revenue forecast. Despite shipping approximately 14.1 million BlackBerry smartphones in the third quarter, Research in Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) still fell below expectations. Morgan...
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From Facebook to Textbooks, CourseSmart Brings Learning to Social Media
Wednesday, November 2, 2011 - 10:23am | 913You visit Facebook to Like, share and play, but where do you go to learn? In the olden days (you know, waaaay back in 2002), students had to actually get off their butts, pick up a physical book, walk to a physical classroom, and learn from a real-life teacher. That seems primitive now that...
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RadioShack Gets Some Livio Love This Christmas
Tuesday, November 1, 2011 - 12:35pm | 229Consumers now have an additional 4,400 ways to purchase the Bluetooth Car Internet Radio Kit. Livio Radio has announced this morning that its acclaimed car kit is now being sold in all of the company-operated RadioShack (NYSE: RSH) stores in the United States. With 4,400 locations nationwide,...
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What Do the iPhone 4S Sales Figures Tell Us About Consumers?
Monday, October 17, 2011 - 2:23pm | 740At four million iPhones sold, the 4S has become Apple's fastest-selling device. Should we be surprised? Maybe. First Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) bragged that the iPhone 4S had been pre-sold to more than one million consumers. Now, in the weekend following its release, the iPhone 4S has moved four million...
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LivingSocial App Gets an Update, Now Supports Twitter Integration in iOS 5
Thursday, October 13, 2011 - 10:35am | 207Got an iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch? LivingSocial has an app (and an update) for you. LivingSocial has announced this morning that it has updated its app to support the new Twitter integration features in Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) latest iOS. “Creating an easy and fun mobile experience for our members...
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Four Reasons Apple is Making us Wait for the iPhone 5
Wednesday, October 5, 2011 - 11:28am | 673Contrary to popular belief, greed isn't the primary factor. After this week's lackluster unveiling, many have accused Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) of milking the system. This is the easy thing to do whenever a company rehashes an existing product. But while Apple announced the iPhone 4S knowing that...
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Livio Radio Launches Bluetooth Internet Radio Car Kit for iPod and iPhone
Tuesday, September 13, 2011 - 10:43am | 249Will “change the way users enjoy car radio.” Livio Radio has been getting a lot of buzz lately for the investments it received from Angel Street Capital and Western Technology Investment. But today the Michigan-based manufacturer and developer isn't announcing another round of funding – instead,...
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Reality Check for Nintendo Investors: iPhone Development is Never Going to Happen, Would Kill the Stock
Thursday, August 11, 2011 - 1:12pm | 524Small short-term gains, massive long-term losses. Bloomberg is reporting that Nintendo investors are increasingly unhappy with Nintendo, a company that is determined to stick to its tried-and-true business model of making games exclusively for its own devices. This strategy is nothing new;...
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Is Nintendo Smart to Ditch Smartphones?
Tuesday, July 12, 2011 - 2:46pm | 932Contrary to popular belief, Super Mario and Angry Birds are not the same. Last week, Nintendo made it crystal clear that it does not have any plans to develop for the Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone or Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) Android platforms. This news came as a shock to some. “If Nintendo was...
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Want a Free iPod Touch? Too Bad; Apple Just Pulled the Plug on this Beloved Offer
Thursday, June 16, 2011 - 2:22pm | 213Now Microsoft's (NASDAQ: MSFT) pledge to give away a free Xbox to college students who buy a Windows machine does not seem so ridiculous. In fact, it seems downright generous. In an effort to save money, try something different, or show just how powerful the company has become, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL...
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iCloud: Apple's Perfect Storm Against Dropbox, Google, and Amazon Cloud?
Tuesday, May 31, 2011 - 2:48pm | 875A storm is coming next week. But will it turn out to be the tornado feared by Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) competitors, or merely a rainstorm that only cools things off temporarily? Neither outcome would be unprecedented. Despite its many success stories, Apple is not an infallible corporation. While the...
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Microsoft Using Free Xbox to Spur PC Sales, But Will it Work?
Thursday, May 19, 2011 - 2:28pm | 249Starting May 22, Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) will begin giving away free Xbox 360 consoles (the $200 four-gig version) to students who spend $699 or more on a new Windows PC. According to Mashable, this deal – which will be available at Best Buy (NYSE: BBY), the Microsoft Store, Dell.com (NASDAQ: DELL...
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Sony's Delay Dilemma (SNE)
Tuesday, April 5, 2011 - 3:13pm | 1088It sounded like an April Fools joke written by Nintendo executives. But the news is true – Sony (NYSE: SNE) may be forced to delay the worldwide release of the next PlayStation Portable, tentatively titled NGP. When Bloomberg spoke to Jack Tretton, president of Sony Computer Entertainment of...
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Should Apple Become a Game Developer?
Tuesday, February 22, 2011 - 5:32pm | 861In the game industry, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) has become a lot of things: a facilitator (the App Store allows virtually anyone to develop and release games for the iPhone), a distributor (the App Store also guarantees that millions of average Joes are exposed to games they wouldn't have otherwise seen...