Apple’s Market Cap Rises $100 Billion Above Microsoft’s
At the close of trading today Apple managed to reach a market cap of $330.90 billion, a full $100 billion more than the nearest technology company, Microsoft, which is at $228.8 billion. This is despite Apple only passing Microsoft in market cap less then nine months ago, since then Microsoft has only gained $1 billion....
Microsoft’s 8 other mobile partners
The deal it announced with Nokia is hardly its first. Here's how the others turned out. Early Friday morning, Microsoft (MSFT) and Nokia (NOK) announced a strategic partnership to answer the challenge posed by Apple (AAPL) and Google's (GOOG) smartphone platforms. Tech watchers with long memories -- like Asymco's Horace Dediu -- will recall that...
Apple still owns movie downloads
Despite fierce competition, iTunes commanded a 64% share of the (legal) market in 2010 The online movie market may be Apple's (AAPL) to lose, but it hasn't lost it yet. According to an IHS Screen Digest report issued Monday by iSuppli, the iTunes Store's share of the U.S. market for downloaded movies (see below re...
Apple: World’s ‘most desired’ brand
But it comes in behind BMW in China, Trader Joe's in the U.S., Singapore Airlines in Singapore and the World Wildlife Fund in Germany, according to M&C Saatchi There's a wealth of information in the 56-page "Brand Desire" report issued this week by the Clear marketing division of M&C Saatchi, the advertising firm formed by...
Angry Birds voted “best app ever”
At Macworld, an avian slingshot game wins top spot in seven categories Angry Birds hardly needs any more accolades. The game -- in which players use a slingshot to launch small flightless birds at pigs protected by increasingly complex but unstable structures -- dominated Apple's (AAPL) App Store for most of 2010. The $4.99 version...
Apple’s market cap tops $300 billion
Giving ExxonMobil a run for its money in the race to be the world's most valuable company In a broad 2011 rally that pushed the Dow up nearly a point in mid-morning trading Monday, Apple (AAPL) popped more than $7 (2.25%) to hit new record intraday highs -- and to cross a major psychological barrier....
The Island of Misfit Tablets
Organizers expect 40 to 80 iPad wannabees at next week's Consumer Electronics Show Barron's Tiernan Ray calls them the "tablet rat pack." AFP's Glenn Chapman compares them to an invading army. PC Mag's Tim Gideon says they seem to be multiplying "like gremlins." They're talking about the Apple (AAPL) iPad wannabees heading for the International...
Apple vs. Android: The view from Google
Two Android 'developer advocates' weigh in on the year's most closely watched horse race A pair of veteran high-tech luminaries, both hired by Google (GOOG) within the past 14 months, chose this week to write on their private blogs about how they see the Apple (AAPL) vs. Android competition shaping up in 2011. What's interesting...
Paul Allen: Gunning for Google
An analysis of his latest suit suggests Android's maker has more to fear than Apple does FOSS Patents' Florian Mueller, whose judgment I've come to trust when it comes to high-tech intellectual property disputes, makes two interesting points about the patent infringement suit Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen refiled Tuesday against nearly a dozen companies, including...
