Samsung (SSNLF.PK), unsurprisingly, plans to appeal its harsh legal loss to Apple (AAPL). Apple's response to the jury's verdict: "We applaud the court for finding Samsung’s behavior willful and for sending a loud and clear message that stealing isn’t right." Samsung's response: "It is unfortunate that patent law can be manipulated to give one company a monopoly over rectangles with rounded corners, or technology that is being improved every day by Samsung and other companies." (more) [View news story]
Your comment is naive in the fact that it is nearly impossible to create a functional device without infringing on some aspect. I don't see how you can't believe patent law needs a major reform.
Capstone is out with a note to clients tipping off that the H2 production target for Tesla Motors (TSLA) is at risk. The EV automaker also catches the critical eye of writer John Peteron today, as he warns TSLA longs that very little short-term upside exists with the stock's Blue Sky-to-Book ratio sitting at a lofty 60. TSLA is inactive premarket, but with a void of any hard-and-fast news on production numbers out there - even wisps of negativity could influence trading. [View news story]
TSLA is inactive premarket... Put out negative headline.. influence trading
45% of U.S. consumers eligible to upgrade their phones over the next 3 months intend to buy an iPhone (AAPL), according to a Baird survey of 2K U.S. Web users. 31% are undecided, and just 22% are set on buying an Android (GOOG) phone. Also 77% of iPhone owners plan to buy another one, whereas only 48% of Android users are promising to remain loyal - 34% are undecided, and 17% say they want to buy an iPhone. (Piper survey) (Apple customer loyalty) (iPhone U.S. share gains) [View news story]
So why buy the next iPhone...? iPhone 4 should hold everyone over til 2015 by your argument.
45% of U.S. consumers eligible to upgrade their phones over the next 3 months intend to buy an iPhone (AAPL), according to a Baird survey of 2K U.S. Web users. 31% are undecided, and just 22% are set on buying an Android (GOOG) phone. Also 77% of iPhone owners plan to buy another one, whereas only 48% of Android users are promising to remain loyal - 34% are undecided, and 17% say they want to buy an iPhone. (Piper survey) (Apple customer loyalty) (iPhone U.S. share gains) [View news story]
No, but you could greatly improve credibility by adding another 3,000..
45% of U.S. consumers eligible to upgrade their phones over the next 3 months intend to buy an iPhone (AAPL), according to a Baird survey of 2K U.S. Web users. 31% are undecided, and just 22% are set on buying an Android (GOOG) phone. Also 77% of iPhone owners plan to buy another one, whereas only 48% of Android users are promising to remain loyal - 34% are undecided, and 17% say they want to buy an iPhone. (Piper survey) (Apple customer loyalty) (iPhone U.S. share gains) [View news story]
Switched from iOs to Android - looking to sell my ipad for nexus 10.1.
Eitherway, how is 2,000 representative of the nation as a whole?
Nike (NKE) takes some heat from the National Urban League over the high-flying prices for the company's new Lebron X basketball shoes. The civil rights group says it usually doesn't take a stand on a consumer products, but notes it was flooded with calls over marketing +$300 shoes to kids and teenagers in the heat of the back-to-school shopping season. [View news story]
Why doesn't Goldman Sachs complain to Edward Green?
Apple (AAPL +2.1%) has become the most valuable company ever traded: its current market cap of $620.8B eclipses Microsoft's peak market cap of $618.9B, reached on Dec. 30, 1999. The milestone comes as Apple and Samsung (SSNLF.PK) each propose lengthy verdict forms for jurors presiding over their California trial to fill out. Jurors will have to decide whether each of dozens of devices infringe on an Apple or Samsung patent, with unanimous decisions being needed for a guilty verdict. (earlier) [View news story]
Your comment is the exact reason to exercise caution in AAPL...
As Samsung (SSNLF.PK) continues making counter-arguments in its closely-watched California trial with Apple (AAPL), Judge Lucy Koh is calling on the combatants to try once more to reach a settlement."I see risk here for both sides if we go to a verdict," says Koh: her rulings have shown a pro-Apple tilt thus far, but the case will ultimately be decided by a jury. A prior meeting between Apple and Samsung's CEOs apparently failed to accomplish anything. [View news story]
So, by your definition... Apple has the rights to anything that resembles a black rectangle with a centrally placed button?
Might iPhones one day be manufactured in the U.S.? If someone 30 years ago told you Japanese auto manufacturers would now have such a large production footprint here, would you have believed them? "The U.S. has a long history of demanding that companies build here if they want to sell here," says a former Reagan official who helped start the process of Japan moving to the States. "If Apple or Congress wanted to make the valuable parts of the iPhone in America, it wouldn't be hard." [View news story]
I couldn't agree more, I would like to add that I didn't mean solely manufacturing jobs. The whole argument could be expanded to tailors, bakers, cobblers, etc.
Perhaps students should be required to leave high school with some discernible skill such as writing code, laying brick, baking cakes, etc. But these options won't be available until a seismic change in our society's perception of "worth."
I do disagree with your last statement - the notion that every member of society should be propped up. Perhaps I lean a little top much towards the Austrian School of thought - but I feel the government should play no part in subsidizing the lifestyles of its constituents in downturns, rich or poor.
Might iPhones one day be manufactured in the U.S.? If someone 30 years ago told you Japanese auto manufacturers would now have such a large production footprint here, would you have believed them? "The U.S. has a long history of demanding that companies build here if they want to sell here," says a former Reagan official who helped start the process of Japan moving to the States. "If Apple or Congress wanted to make the valuable parts of the iPhone in America, it wouldn't be hard." [View news story]
The only caveat is that not all the workers can be designers, engineers, etc. The idea that everyone in America must be on a college track is the root of what is wrong it's the educational system today.
Apprentice schools should be a viable and respectable choice for students to pursue a career in welding, automotive work, electrical work, etc. The only issue is that society sad brainwashed these kids to equate manual labor with low status. In my father's day, some of the most respected men where those who did an honest day's work at the shipyard.
A shift needs to happen in the education system which allows for those students who would excel in such settings to be allowed pursue such a career, rather than being forced into a higher educational system which it is almost impossible to graduate or even find a job. The opportunity cost of those 4 years could be better spent learning a trade.
Samsung (SSNLF.PK), unsurprisingly, plans to appeal its harsh legal loss to Apple (AAPL). Apple's response to the jury's verdict: "We applaud the court for finding Samsung’s behavior willful and for sending a loud and clear message that stealing isn’t right." Samsung's response: "It is unfortunate that patent law can be manipulated to give one company a monopoly over rectangles with rounded corners, or technology that is being improved every day by Samsung and other companies." (more) [View news story]
Capstone is out with a note to clients tipping off that the H2 production target for Tesla Motors (TSLA) is at risk. The EV automaker also catches the critical eye of writer John Peteron today, as he warns TSLA longs that very little short-term upside exists with the stock's Blue Sky-to-Book ratio sitting at a lofty 60. TSLA is inactive premarket, but with a void of any hard-and-fast news on production numbers out there - even wisps of negativity could influence trading. [View news story]
Profit?
45% of U.S. consumers eligible to upgrade their phones over the next 3 months intend to buy an iPhone (AAPL), according to a Baird survey of 2K U.S. Web users. 31% are undecided, and just 22% are set on buying an Android (GOOG) phone. Also 77% of iPhone owners plan to buy another one, whereas only 48% of Android users are promising to remain loyal - 34% are undecided, and 17% say they want to buy an iPhone. (Piper survey) (Apple customer loyalty) (iPhone U.S. share gains) [View news story]
45% of U.S. consumers eligible to upgrade their phones over the next 3 months intend to buy an iPhone (AAPL), according to a Baird survey of 2K U.S. Web users. 31% are undecided, and just 22% are set on buying an Android (GOOG) phone. Also 77% of iPhone owners plan to buy another one, whereas only 48% of Android users are promising to remain loyal - 34% are undecided, and 17% say they want to buy an iPhone. (Piper survey) (Apple customer loyalty) (iPhone U.S. share gains) [View news story]
45% of U.S. consumers eligible to upgrade their phones over the next 3 months intend to buy an iPhone (AAPL), according to a Baird survey of 2K U.S. Web users. 31% are undecided, and just 22% are set on buying an Android (GOOG) phone. Also 77% of iPhone owners plan to buy another one, whereas only 48% of Android users are promising to remain loyal - 34% are undecided, and 17% say they want to buy an iPhone. (Piper survey) (Apple customer loyalty) (iPhone U.S. share gains) [View news story]
Eitherway, how is 2,000 representative of the nation as a whole?
Nike (NKE) takes some heat from the National Urban League over the high-flying prices for the company's new Lebron X basketball shoes. The civil rights group says it usually doesn't take a stand on a consumer products, but notes it was flooded with calls over marketing +$300 shoes to kids and teenagers in the heat of the back-to-school shopping season. [View news story]
I went almost went bankrupt buying my last pair.
Qihoo 360 (QIHU): Q2 EPS of $0.17 in-line. Revenue of $72.8M (+107% Y/Y) in-line. Shares +1.9% AH. (PR) [View news story]
Apple (AAPL +2.1%) has become the most valuable company ever traded: its current market cap of $620.8B eclipses Microsoft's peak market cap of $618.9B, reached on Dec. 30, 1999. The milestone comes as Apple and Samsung (SSNLF.PK) each propose lengthy verdict forms for jurors presiding over their California trial to fill out. Jurors will have to decide whether each of dozens of devices infringe on an Apple or Samsung patent, with unanimous decisions being needed for a guilty verdict. (earlier) [View news story]
The Galaxy S III Supply Chain Winners [View article]
As Samsung (SSNLF.PK) continues making counter-arguments in its closely-watched California trial with Apple (AAPL), Judge Lucy Koh is calling on the combatants to try once more to reach a settlement."I see risk here for both sides if we go to a verdict," says Koh: her rulings have shown a pro-Apple tilt thus far, but the case will ultimately be decided by a jury. A prior meeting between Apple and Samsung's CEOs apparently failed to accomplish anything. [View news story]
Might iPhones one day be manufactured in the U.S.? If someone 30 years ago told you Japanese auto manufacturers would now have such a large production footprint here, would you have believed them? "The U.S. has a long history of demanding that companies build here if they want to sell here," says a former Reagan official who helped start the process of Japan moving to the States. "If Apple or Congress wanted to make the valuable parts of the iPhone in America, it wouldn't be hard." [View news story]
Perhaps students should be required to leave high school with some discernible skill such as writing code, laying brick, baking cakes, etc. But these options won't be available until a seismic change in our society's perception of "worth."
I do disagree with your last statement - the notion that every member of society should be propped up. Perhaps I lean a little top much towards the Austrian School of thought - but I feel the government should play no part in subsidizing the lifestyles of its constituents in downturns, rich or poor.
Might iPhones one day be manufactured in the U.S.? If someone 30 years ago told you Japanese auto manufacturers would now have such a large production footprint here, would you have believed them? "The U.S. has a long history of demanding that companies build here if they want to sell here," says a former Reagan official who helped start the process of Japan moving to the States. "If Apple or Congress wanted to make the valuable parts of the iPhone in America, it wouldn't be hard." [View news story]
Apprentice schools should be a viable and respectable choice for students to pursue a career in welding, automotive work, electrical work, etc. The only issue is that society sad brainwashed these kids to equate manual labor with low status. In my father's day, some of the most respected men where those who did an honest day's work at the shipyard.
A shift needs to happen in the education system which allows for those students who would excel in such settings to be allowed pursue such a career, rather than being forced into a higher educational system which it is almost impossible to graduate or even find a job. The opportunity cost of those 4 years could be better spent learning a trade.
Chuy's: Successful IPO Debut Despite Chipotle's Freefall [View article]
Facebook (FB): Q2 EPS of $0.12 in-line. Revenue of $1.18B (+32% Y/Y) beats by $30M. Shares +4.3% AH. (PR) [View news story]
Chipotle: Ready To Crash At The First Sign Of Bad News [View article]
Would be better to buy long dated puts - IMO. A lot safer.