What Wall Street is saying about Apple's record quarter
25/01/2012 |
Apple’s record quarter is prompting a lot of analysts and Wall Street watchers to up their estimates for the stock’s performance. A slew of investor notes released after Apple’s results were made public suggest few believe Apple’s fortunes have reached their apex.
Sterne Agee’s Shaw Wu has one of the more conservative estimates of Apple’s performance but still increased his firm’s price target to $550 from $540, citing the possibility of an impending...
A Target expansion would broaden Apple's halo effect
Apple could add considerably to its retail reach, if a new report out Friday is accurate. According to a “source familiar with Apple’s plans,” AppleInsider says Apple will bring store-within-a-store retail outlets to Target locations sometime soon, helping it reach markets Apple...
The iPad is the big winner in planned SMB tablet adoption
Tablets are set to be a hit with small- and medium-sized businesses in 2012, according to a new NPD survey, and Apple is set to gain the most as a result. Among SMBs with fewer than 1,000 employees, 73 percent said they intended to buy tablets over the next 12 months, and most of those said they ...
Chinese iPhone 4S launch the one to watch as lines grow
Apple is in for another huge iPhone 4S launch, if early lineups are any indication. Penn Olson reports that lines outside Apple’s five official retail stores in China have already extended into the hundreds ahead of Friday’s launch.Photos from Chinese microblogging site Sina Weibo cle...
Apple shareholders are going long [Infographic]
Apple reported some very impressive financial results on Tuesday, setting new records in terms of its revenue, profit and items sold for its first financial quarter of 2012. And according to Apple’s current record-high market cap of more than $400 billion, the old Wall Street adage of ̶...
Apple code reveals quad-core iPhones, iPads could come soon
Apple's A5, manufactured by Samsung.Apple might have quad-core iPhone and iPad devices coming in 2012, according to some code discovered deep in Apple’s iOS 5.1 pre-release software on Friday. We’ve been hearing a lot about the possibility of a quad-core A6, successor to the A5 pr...
Apple to buy Hollywood? Not a chance.
With about $100 billion just lying around, Apple’s received a number of suggestions for how it can spend that cash. The latest comes from Erick Schonfeld at TechCrunch, who argues that Apple could use that money to invest in a new type of subscription TV service to compete with Comcast, Tim...
Analyst's supplier checks suggest Apple sales gaining steam
In a new research note to clients, Ticonderoga Securities analyst Brian White noted that December was a record month for his “Apple Barometer”: an index of sales at Apple’s Asian supply partners. White notes the 9.4 percent increase in supplier sales overall marks the first time...
Straight talk for businesses considering an iOS app
IOS development is not for the faint of heart, and a new blog post by developer Kent Nguyen(the creator of the Denso mobile video discoveryapps)does a good job of pointing out exactly why. Nguyen’s target audience is companies who foot the bill for app development, in the hopes of lessening...
Study: iOS set to win share as smartphones surge
Apple is set to reap the benefits of increased consumer interest in smartphones, according to a new study by market research firm Yankee Group. A survey of 15,000 U.S. shoppers found that Apple and Google will dominate, with Apple’s winning back share of the smartphone market over the next ...
Intel talking to Apple about mobile chips, but Apple probably isn't listening
The big buzz out of CES on Thursday is that Intel has been “talking” to Apple, among other manufacturers, about using its new line of Medfield chips in upcomingmobiledevices. But the discussions are clearly very preliminary, judging by Intel VP Dave Whalen’s comments (via Telegr...
