What Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman told the Senate antitrust panel about Google
Yelp's Stoppelman, Nextag's Katz, and former Justice Department antitrust director Thomas Barnett. Photo: AP
As feared, the Senate hearings Wednesday on "The Power of Google: Serving Customers or Threatening Competition?" barely scratched the surface.
What Google (GOOG) did to Apple (AAPL) -- copying Apple's touchscreen operating system...
When the rest of the market is tanking, the company's shares offer a relatively safe haven
On Monday, when the Dow opened down $250, Apple (AAPL) rose $11.13 (2.78%) to close at a new record $411.63. On Tuesday, Apple opened at $415.35 and hit $422.86 shortly after noon.
UPDATE: Apple closed Tuesday nearly where it started, at...
The Senate hearings scheduled for Wednesday will only scratch the surface
Source: Google
Apple (AAPL) is conspicuously absent from the witness list for Wednesday's hearing on "The Power of Google" before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition and Consumer Rights. Yelp! and Nextag will be represented, but Google (GOOG) has stepped on a lot more toes than...
Sony's tablet could be the next to stumble, says another
BlackBerry PlayBook
Wall Street's best and brightest are expressing varying degrees of shock at the news Thursday that Research in Motion (RIMM), which delivered 500,000 BlackBerry PlayBook tablets in the quarter that ended in May, shipped a dismal 200,000 in the August quarter -- suggesting that most...
IBTimes plays for page views by playing both sides of the iPhone vs. Android divide
Source: IBTimes
The International Business Times, a thinly-staffed online "newspaper" based in New York City, has hit on the perfect formula for covering the smartphone wars.
On Wednesday, under the byline IB Times Staff Reporter, it published 10 Reasons Why iPhone 5 will...
The Apple logo is now worth $39.3 billion according to Brand Finance
30 Top U.S. Brands. Click to enlarge. Source: Brand Finance
Microsoft (MSFT) is down 9% to $39 billion. Google (GOOG) is up 9% to nearly $48.3 billion. But Apple (AAPL) is way up -- 33% -- to overtake, for the first time, Microsoft, IBM (IBM),...
The worldwide tablet market grew 303.8% year over year, and it's mostly Apple's
Worldwide tablet market shares (by shipments). Source: IDC
Since IDC launched its Worldwide Quarterly Media Tablet and eReader Tracker in January, its coverage of the tablet market has been, shall we say, spotty.
Its tracking report for the first quarter of 2011 didn't arrive until...
Android's purveyor crossed a line when it sold arms to be used against Apple
Photo: thegreencycler.com
U.S. patent No. 6,473,006, "a method and apparatus for zoomed display of characters entered from a telephone keypad," has a long and tangled history.
It was originally filed, according to FOSS Patents' Florian Mueller, by a company called Phone-com, which assigned it to...
Up nearly 82% from 2010's 47.5 million, overtaking Nokia for the first time
Source: DigiTimes
DigiTimes, a Taipai-based daily that keeps as close tabs as any publication on the Asian supply chain, posted its estimates Tuesday for where it thinks the top 10 smartphone manufacturers will be at year's end.
Although Apple (AAPL) will have shipped the most units...
When the company's blistering growth is factored in, it certainly looks that way
Source: Asymco
Four years ago, before the 2008 recession, Apple (AAPL) was trading at more than 45 times earnings. Today it's trading at less than 15 -- a situation that frustrates investors no end.
A little over a week ago, Dirk Schmidt, a German management...
But the odds that Microsoft will overtake Android or the iPhone are steep
Click to enlarge. Source: Asymco
ComScore released its July 2011 U.S. smartphone data this week and as usual Asymco's Horace Dediu has done the best job of turning the numbers into striking -- and insightful -- graphics.
On Thursday he released three charts that show:
1....
The market has had 3 days to chew over the Googorola news. It's not sitting well.
After thousands of news reports, analysts notes, blogs and tweets, the chart at right may tell you all you need to know about Google's (GOOG) plan to fight/emulate Apple (AAPL) by buying Motorola Mobility's (MMI) brand, patents and device manufacturing business for $12.5 billion.
In the...
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