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Tesla Down 10% Following Earnings Beat
Tuesday, November 5, 2013 - 5:34pm | 327Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) is taking a beating after reporting its third-quarter earnings beat. The automaker's Q3 EPS came in at $0.12 -- a penny higher than the $0.11 that Wall Street predicted. Earnings per share were up 113 percent from the year-ago period. Tesla has been one of the hottest stocks...
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SLIDESHOW: iPhone 5S Spurs Massive Crowds And Other News From The Third Week Of September
Saturday, September 21, 2013 - 12:12pm | 171Every year, analysts worry that Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) will disappoint investors with lackluster iPhone sales performance. Quarter after quarter, Apple has defied all but the loftiest expectations and reported positive sales growth. Based on the size of the crowd at the Apple Store at the Somerset...
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Panasonic May Not Source Tesla's Rumored Hybrid Battery
Monday, September 16, 2013 - 4:36pm | 499Trip Chowdhry, the Managing Director of Equity Research at Global Equities Research, is convinced that Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) is building a new hybrid battery pack. Chowdhry came to this conclusion after examining a patent that the company filed in July. In short, the patent describes a system that...
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Panasonic Aims To Narrow Corporate Focus With Possible Asset Sale To Nokia
Wednesday, August 28, 2013 - 4:00pm | 556Panasonic (OTC: PCRFY) has reportedly approached Nokia (NYSE: NOK) about a key asset sale. According to Nikkei, Panasonic is interested in offloading its cellular base station business. Nokia is one of many prospective buyers that Panasonic is believed to have approached. This is the latest...
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Are You Ready For Cops With Wearable Cameras?
Tuesday, August 27, 2013 - 2:37pm | 619With television shows like MSNBC’s Caught on Camera, the world is quite familiar with police cruiser dashboard cams depicting car chases, belligerent drivers and even daring rescues. Now, thanks to a federal judge’s ruling on the New York Police Department’s controversial stop-and-frisk policy...
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SLIDESHOW: A History Of Video Game Console And Handheld Flops
Sunday, August 4, 2013 - 10:00am | 257Consumers have not always been kind to console and handheld manufacturers. While Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) may have earned a degree of loyalty for producing iPhones and iPads, gamers are less likely to stand by their favorite hardware maker. This became evident the moment that Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT...
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Apple's Plan to Take Down Samsung's Galaxy S4 (AAPL, SSNLF)
Wednesday, July 10, 2013 - 12:32pm | 473Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) may have found its best marketing tool since Siri. According to 9to5Mac, the company is developing a new camera (codenamed "mogul") that can record video at up to 120 frames-per-second (FPS). At first glance, this may not sound like much more than a novelty that will only be...
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Panasonic's TV Sales Fall 20 Percent
Friday, May 10, 2013 - 9:58am | 570It seems that Panasonic's (OTC: PCRFY) restructuring plan has not been successful. According to CNET, the Japanese electronics giant posted another major loss. The company lost 754.3 billion Yen ($7.42 billion U.S.) during the fiscal 2012 sales period after sales declined seven percent to 7,846...
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Is Samsung Building an 11.6-inch Tablet?
Monday, April 22, 2013 - 12:56pm | 509While smartphones continue to get bigger and bigger, tablets seem to be getting smaller. Large smartphones may be here to stay, but that latter trend could change very soon. According to DigiTimes, Sharp will provide 11.6-inch IGZO (Indium Gallium Zinc Oxide) panels to Samsung this year. The...
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Intel Promotes Hefty, 27-inch Tablet Concept
Monday, April 22, 2013 - 10:35am | 526If Sony's (NYSE: SNE) oversized all-in-one PC/tablet combo was not big enough for consumers, Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) might have the perfect replacement. According to DigiTimes, Intel has begun to push its so-called adaptive all-in-one PC concept -- which provides a platform to build semi-portable...
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Panasonic Rumored to Sell Local Asset to HTC or TSMC
Wednesday, March 20, 2013 - 9:37am | 512First Panasonic (NYSE: PC) closed a plasma TV factory in Shanghai. Then the company reportedly pulled back on the production of plasma displays. Now Panasonic is said to be interested in selling its handset business. According to DigiTimes, HTC and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (...
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Panasonic Finally Gives Up on This Ancient Technology
Wednesday, March 20, 2013 - 8:35am | 668For more than a decade, Panasonic (NYSE: PC) has been one of the strongest supporters of PDPs (plasma display panels). When Sony (NYSE: SNE) and other manufacturers switched to LCD, Panasonic decided to heavily support both formats. Now it seems that Panasonic is finally letting go of the dying...
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Will 4K Ultra HD Televisions Save Sony and Panasonic?
Saturday, March 16, 2013 - 11:33am | 569Less than one year ago, Sony (NYSE: SNE) experienced an 18 percent decline in the sale of LCD televisions. Before that announcement, Sony confirmed its plans to layoff 10,000 employees. At the same time, other Japanese display makers -- including Panasonic (NYSE: PC) and Sharp -- endured losses...
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PC Industry Braces for More Declines in 2013
Wednesday, January 9, 2013 - 2:37pm | 557While the final numbers have yet to be revealed, PC sales were expected to decline last year. This would have been the first global decline since 2001. At the time, almost all of the major notebook and desktop manufacturers were struggling to maintain the sales levels that they had experienced in...
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Apple Can't Charge More than $1,000 for a New TV
Tuesday, December 11, 2012 - 1:49pm | 677A new study shows that while consumers are eager to purchase Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) first television set, the company may not be able to charge more than $1,000 for the unit. According to AppleInsider, consumers who are willing to pay the most (roughly 32 percent more than the current TV set they...