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TUAW's Daily App: MarketDash

by Mike Schramm (Feb 23rd, 2011)

Yahoo! sent us word that its new finance app, called MarketDash, is in the store now. While I'm not personally a big stocks guy, I think it looks good, and the iTunes reviews so far agree. The app is designed to tap into Yahoo! Finance, so if you have an account running over there, you can just ...

CNBC: Apple should be world's most valuable company

by Kelly Hodgkins (Feb 9th, 2011)

Apple's latest earnings report has been available for three weeks, and analysts are chiming in with their 2011 assessment of the Cupertino company. Though Apple's stock dipped slightly after Steve Jobs announced another medical leave of absence, the release of the Verizon iPhone and Apple's 2011 ...

Apple stock rises to over $342 intra-day

by David Winograd (Jan 10th, 2011)

On a day where the Dow Jones Industrial Average is down by US$38.20 and the Nasdaq composite is nearly flat, once again, AAPL is bucking the trend and going straight up. At this writing, Apple stock is at $342.05, (a new intra-day high) and bouncing. So far the stock is up $5.93 or 1.76 percent ...

Goldman Sachs resumes Apple coverage, targets AAPL at $430

by Mike Schramm (Dec 13th, 2010)

Investing firm Goldman Sachs has decided to start covering Apple's stock profile, and that news sent the AAPL stock price up to $325.06 this morning, a nice boost from the day before. And that's not all -- not only did Goldman Sachs pull AAPL into its reporting fold, but it was about as bullish as ...

Piper Jaffray raises Apple price target to $429

by Dave Caolo (Oct 19th, 2010)

Piper Jaffray has raised the price target on shares of AAPL to US$429 following yesterday's financial report from Apple. The company posted its first $20 billion quarter, beating expected earnings. In addition, Piper Jaffray raised FY11 revenue growth rate from 24. In a note to clients issued ...

Blind user explains why he loves the iPhone

by Mike Schramm (Sep 20th, 2010)

Here's a wild little story that made its way around the blogonets this past weekend -- it was originally posted in June, but it got recirculated on Twitter, and we first heard it from Steve Troughton-Smith. Austin Seraphin is a blind person, and he says that getting an iPhone changed his life ...

iPad: The missing apps

by Dave Caolo (Sep 15th, 2010)

As we suspected back in March, the iPad shipped without apps that are standard on the iPhone: Stocks, Calculator, Clock, Weather, Voice Memos, and Compass. Instead of going without, we've found the best examples of each for you to install and get your iPad on par with your iPhone. Clock Our own ...

AAPL passes Microsoft to reach 2nd on US market cap list

by Chris Rawson (May 26th, 2010)

We expected it to happen eventually, but not quite this fast: Apple's market capitalization now exceeds that of longtime rival Microsoft. As of the 4pm ET market close today, Apple's total share value bests Microsoft's by nearly US$3 billion -- Apple stands at US$222.5 billion, while Microsoft is at ...

On Apple's $40 billion, and the question of dividends

by David Winograd (Mar 25th, 2010)

AAPL has been hitting new highs just about every day. Yesterday the stock price hit an intra-day high of $230.20, a lofty height indeed. We pointed out earlier that Apple now has the fourth largest market cap of any publicly traded domestic company, so maybe it's time to revisit the question of ...

Apple stock at another all-time high, market cap 4th in US

by Chris Rawson (Mar 23rd, 2010)

Apple's stock rose to another record high earlier today, reaching $228.36 at market close. That's almost another $10 above the record high it set back on March 5, which translates into nearly nine billion dollars in market capitalization gained in less than three weeks. Apple's market cap is so ...

No Apple stock split...for now.

by David Winograd (Feb 27th, 2010)

Thursday, Briefings.com, CNBC and a passel of other market analysts predicted that a 4 for 1 stock split would be announced at the Apple Shareholder Meeting. This rumor moved the market, but there are conflicting opinions to why. First, for the uninitiated, a stock split is a zero sum game. One ...

AAPL goes on a roller-coaster ride

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Jan 27th, 2010)

The above image from SingularityDsgn graphically shows the wild roller-coaster ride that Apple's stock has been on today. It traded at roughly 1.5% below Tuesday's closing price heading into today's iPad announcement, but started climbing during the iBooks announcement. AAPL's stock took a major ...

AAPL hits all-time high

by Mike Schramm (Oct 22nd, 2009)

Steve Jobs' Disney stocks aren't the only thing making him rich -- AAPL has hit an all time high, according to MacRumors, thanks to the big announcements earlier this week, both on the online store and during the conference call. Before opening this morning, it was at 204.72, but the high yesterday ...

Apple market share drops slightly in the past year

by Mike Schramm (Apr 16th, 2009)

Don't look now, but Apple's slow market share incline may have just turned into a slow decline. Not only does a new report by research and advisory company Gartner, Inc say that Apple's market share in the US slipped just a little bit over the past year (from 7.5), but that as you can see above, ...

Jobs to miss Apple shareholder meeting this week

by Mike Schramm (Feb 23rd, 2009)

Bloomberg is reporting that Steve Jobs will not attend this week's Apple shareholder meeting. That's not a big surprise -- Jobs' health has kept him from attending recent usual events, including Macworld earlier this year. But it is the first time in the over 10 years since he rejoined the company ...