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Bloomberg's Ovide: Apple Will Be Great Again -- Just Not This Year
Tuesday, September 6, 2016 - 2:53pm | 331Make Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) great again? According to Bloomberg Gadfly's Shira Ovide, Apple will indeed be great — just not after Wednesday's "annual media circus." According to Ovide, it has been an "awful" year for Apple by its own "high standards." With that said, she has an "...
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China Was An 'Alluring Trap' For Uber
Tuesday, August 9, 2016 - 8:18am | 373It's very hard to find many success stories involving U.S. tech companies finding success in China. Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG) and Google closed its search engine and left the country in 2010, Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) is getting killed, and Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB) hasn't been given...
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Uber And China: 'Never Has Losing Looked So Good'
Monday, August 1, 2016 - 1:49pm | 315Uber was said to have been operating in China while racking in more than $1 billion in losses a year. On Monday, the company struck an agreement with China's equivalent to Uber, Didi Chuxing to sell its Chinese operation. According to Bloomberg's Shira Ovide, Uber's move to shed its...
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Bloomberg's Ovide: Yahoo's Missteps Over The Past 4 Years Could 'Fill A Thousand Business School Case Studies'
Monday, July 25, 2016 - 2:28pm | 560Bloomberg's Shira Ovide is clearly no fan of Marissa Mayer's decisions over the years. In fact, the many "missteps" Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO)'s CEO has overseen over the past four years could "fill a thousand business school case studies," according to the pundit. With that said, here are a few...
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What Happened To All The Tech IPOs? Should Investors Be Worried?
Friday, May 20, 2016 - 2:11pm | 366There has been an alarming drop in technology companies that oversaw an initial public offering in 2016 so far. For those keeping track, only one technology, Secureworks Corp (NASDAQ: SCWX), has gone public in the United States from the start of the year through May 2016, according to Bloomberg...
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Can Starbucks Teach Facebook And Apple A Thing Or 2 About Mobile Payments?
Thursday, March 31, 2016 - 2:57pm | 359A recent survey painted a poor picture for Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL)'s mobile payment system, Apple Pay, as only 20 percent of survey respondents indicated they had used Apple Pay at least once. Naturally, Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB) is paying close attention to Apple's successes and failures ahead...