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JP Morgan Reiterates Overweight, $45 Target on Broadcom Corporation
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 - 10:02am | 123Read More...In a research note, JP Morgan maintains its Overweight rating and $45 price target on Broadcom Corporation (NASDAQ: BRCM) as the company is poised to secure significant connectivity design win with Nokia. JPM comments, “On the eve of Nokia's Windows-based smartphone launch, our primary...
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Nokia Made a Bunch of Odd Announcements This Morning
Wednesday, October 26, 2011 - 10:08am | 380Read More...Headphones, new phones that look like old phones, and free apps that won't persuade you to buy a different phone. Business Insider has an eye-opening slideshow that reveals the future of Nokia (NYSE: NOK) – or lack thereof. For starters, the company unveiled what Business Insider refers to as the...
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As Apple Goes Up, Research in Motion Goes Down
Thursday, October 13, 2011 - 4:19pm | 470Read More...Coincidence or scientific proof that people are trading in their BlackBerry's for iPhones? Over the last six month, Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) success has had an inverse affect on Research in Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM). While this might not come as a surprise to the million people who have pre-ordered the...
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Former Nokia Exec Attempts to Reinvent the Wrist Watch; Too Bad Apple Already Did That with the iPod Nano
Monday, September 12, 2011 - 8:56am | 246Read More...Even people who leave Nokia can't escape Apple's wrath. That's the downside to being in the tech industry: sooner or later, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) is going to make you wish the firm had stuck to making PCs. Regardless, Juha Pinomaa, a former Nokia (NYSE: NOK) exec (and the former President of...
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Hacker Forces Nokia to Shut Down Developer Forum
Monday, August 29, 2011 - 8:44am | 241Read More...If you thought you had a bad weekend, talk to Nokia; its weekend was probably worse. Nokia (NYSE: NOK), the troubled cell phone manufacturer that many insiders expected Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) to acquire, is having a bit of trouble this morning following a hacker infiltration last week....
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Microsoft and Blackberry to be the Next Google and Motorola
Tuesday, August 16, 2011 - 4:08pm | 439Read More...First Motorola, Next BlackBerry. With Google's (NASDAQ: GOOG) recent acquisition of Motorola Mobility (NYSE: MMI) for $12.5 billion, is Research In Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) next up for auction? Mid-February, Research In Motion was trading just under $70 a share. Tuesday, the stock is down to $27 per...
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Is Nokia About to Sell Cheap Phones? If So, Does Anyone Care?
Monday, July 18, 2011 - 10:28am | 214Read More...Coming from the “if you can't beat ‘em, charge less!” philosophy, Nokia (NYSE: NOK) could be on the verge of a major pricing overhaul. Boy Genius Report has picked up on the latest prediction from industry insider Eldar Murtazin, who believes that Nokia will drop prices “across its entire product...
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Are Apple's Legal Battles Prompting its Patent Lawyer to Leave, Or is he Being Forced Out?
Tuesday, July 12, 2011 - 8:21am | 352Read More...It seems that Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) could be in a lot more trouble than we thought. According to a Reuters exclusive, the company's chief patent counsel, Richard "Chip" Lutton Junior, will depart very soon. The timing of this news – which has yet to be confirmed but comes from a Reuters source...
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Tattletale! Apple Complains About Samsung, Seeks Help from the ITC
Wednesday, July 6, 2011 - 10:07am | 149Read More...Will these two lovebirds ever kiss and make up? I know that Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) and Samsung are far from achieving the power-couple status attained by Nokia (NYSE: NOK) and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT). But still, these two companies are already helping each other profit as business partners, so why...
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Microsoft, Intel, Cisco (MIC) - Can The Troika Grow Again? (Part 1)
Wednesday, June 29, 2011 - 4:26am | 739Read More...Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), Intel (NASDAQ: INTC), and Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO), once the darlings of Wall Street, had all fallen out of favor. Even though they have protected their turfs well, and are piling cash into their companies quarter after quarter, their stocks had languished for an...
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Is Nokia Developing a Phone it Doesn't Fully Support?
Wednesday, June 22, 2011 - 12:44pm | 689Read More...Depending on how much stock you put in the words of Eldar Murtazin, you may or may not believe that, in the not-too-distant future, Nokia plans to invest fewer dollars in its newest smartphone. On the surface, this news isn't all that shocking. No product can move high volumes forever, so even if...
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SEC/Muddy Waters Hoax Begs the Question: Can You Ever Trust a Press Release?
Tuesday, June 21, 2011 - 3:34pm | 568Read More...What is the difference between this press release and this one? They both come from Business Wire and appear on Benzinga.com. The former element tells us that the press releases are legit; the latter element tells you, the Benzinga reader, that the contents are real. Now in press release terms,...
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Nokia Focused On Dialing Up an Even Lower Share Price
Tuesday, June 21, 2011 - 9:41am | 326Read More...Nokia (NYSE: NOK) hit a 52-week low on Monday. And maybe that was not low enough. The Finnish communications giant showcased its N9 on Tuesday, the world's first smartphone with Dolby Digital Plus decoding and Dolby Headphone post-processing technology, but analysts were not impressed. The N9...
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Goldman Sachs Provides Color on Communications Technology Sector
Monday, June 20, 2011 - 8:33am | 163Read More...Goldman Sachs provided color on the communications technology sector. In a research report published today, Goldman commented on the prospective sales of smartphones. In the report, Goldman states, "We are lowering our smartphone unit growth forecast for 2011 to 52% from 57% to reflect the...
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Goldman Sachs Provides Color on Apple's Settlement with Nokia
Monday, June 20, 2011 - 8:09am | 179Read More...Goldman Sachs provided color on Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) settlement with Nokia (NYSE: NOK). In a research report published today, Goldman states, "We believe the up-front cost of Apple's Nokia settlement will be largely immaterial to Apple's $66 billion cash balance, and we believe the ongoing...

