Tag Archives: Buybacks

Tim Cook, Dr. Dre And The Battle For Apple’s Cash

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The news that Apple is nearing a $3.2 billion acquisition to buy Beats Electronics is one of the biggest business stories in the nation. The potential deal has received so much attention because it...

The Alibaba Success and the Setbacks

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BEIJING (AP) — Even before Alibaba went online, its founder talked about making the fledgling e-commerce company a global player. At Alibaba Group's first staff meeting in 1999, a video shot by an...

What If Apple Would Spin Out iTunes

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Apple’s Tim Cook has shown the world in the past year that he’s quite happy to engage in some financial engineering and spend some of the cash on his balance sheet if he thinks it will help his stock...

Alibaba Is aiming to raise $1B in IPO

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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — China's Alibaba Group is aiming to raise $1 billion in a long-awaited IPO likely to have ripple effects across the Internet. Tuesday's filing sets the stage for the technology...

Apple Fans Are Bulls In A China Mobile Shop

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Apple upset the shortsellers’ apple cart ( you should excuse the pun) this week when it made several surprising announcements.  Were Steve Jobs alive and still driving this train, surprises...

Is Apple Rotting From The Core?

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Apple released results on April 23: The company announced higher dividends, increasing stock buybacks from $60 billion to $90 billion, a 7 for 1 stock split, and higher earnings. The stock shot...

HTC One M8 survey results show Samsung and iPhone users upgrading to HTC’s latest flagship

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The CompareMyMobile report gives in more insight to the survey which was recently conducted for HTC's latest flagship M8. The important question to be asked here was whether the HTC One (M8) was...

Is Apple Back after Surprise Earnings?

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Apple’s quarter came in well ahead of expectations on strong overall revenues and iPhone sales. With the company forecasting modestly higher earnings in the coming quarter and expectations that the...