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Amateurs beat pros at predicting Apple's Q1 performance

by Steven Sande (Jan 25th, 2012)

When it comes to predicting Apple's financial performance, you may want to ask bloggers, day traders, and amateur analysts instead of listening to Wall Street analysts. As cited in a post by Apple 2.0's Philip Elmer-DeWitt, the real analysts blew it big time predicting Apple's financial numbers for ...

Former Apple supplier exec pleads guilty to leaking iPhone details

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jul 6th, 2011)

Former Flextronics employee Walter Shimoon pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and security fraud. Shimoon leaked information about upcoming Apple products to hedge fund traders in late 2009. He is one of 11 people who have admitted their guilt after the government's ...

Wall Street analysts think iCloud's future has a silver lining

by Steven Sande (Jun 8th, 2011)

Apple fans and developers apparently weren't the only people who liked the iCloud announcement on Monday at WWDC. As reported by Fortune's Philip Elmer-Dewitt, Wall Street analysts are almost unanimous in their positive comments about iCloud's effect on the financial future of Apple. For ...

NPD: Mac sales up 47% in March

by Mike Schramm (Apr 18th, 2011)

The numbers are out on NPD's March report for computer sales, and our favorite Apple analyst, Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster, said MacBook Pro sales continued to drive Mac sales overall, boosting them up to a 47 percent year-over-year-growth. Munster says that despite an overall drop in the amount ...

'Can Apple maintain profitability?' Yes.

by Kelly Guimont (Jan 4th, 2011)

Seriously? This is the question of the day? When people are still voicing serious and legitimate concerns about the rest of the economy? We're talking about a company with enough money in the bank to make a Goldman Sachs-sized investment in Facebook if it wanted to, more than triple the amount Dell ...

JPMorgan iPad distribution confirmed, says Bloomberg

by Matt Tinsley (Dec 1st, 2010)

According to an email obtained by Bloomberg, JPMorgan Chase & Co will be handing out free iPads to all associates in its global investment banking division (that's investment bankers for you and me). In a pilot program to last until May 2011, the bankers will trial the device to see how well ...

iSuppli: Apple to sell 120 million iPads by 2012

by Michael Grothaus (Oct 19th, 2010)

Many analysts were disappointed when Apple announced 4.2 million iPads sold in Q4 during the conference call yesterday. The consensus -- or hope -- among many on Wall Street was a 5m+ iPad quarter. But if iSuppli's report today is any indication, the Wall Street boys have nothing to worry about ...

iPad supply constraints still in play, says Piper Jaffray

by Michael Rose (May 21st, 2010)

As we noted earlier, finding the iPad of your dreams hasn't been getting any easier in recent days. Even with an assumed uptick in production to handle the imminent overseas launch, the search for available units on the ground in the US has been tough. Today's Apple 2.0 note on availability cites ...

Did AT&T provide cheap iPad data rates to keep iPhone exclusivity?

by Steven Sande (May 6th, 2010)

In a country seemingly obsessed with the question "When is Verizon going to get the iPhone?," it's surprising that AT&T's exclusive iPhone deal with Apple has lasted this long. A post in Computerworld today quotes Wall Street analyst Brian Marshall of BroadPoint AmTech, who believes that ...

Wall Street analysts anticipate WWDC 09

by Steven Sande (Jun 4th, 2009)

With WWDC 09 coming up next week, Wall Street analysts are polishing their crystal balls and commenting on what they think we'll hear about. In a post on Barron's Tech Trader Daily blog, Eric Savitz polled the top tech analysts for their ideas. Yair Reiner of Oppenheimer believes that the new ...

Apple Q2 results liveblog, 5 pm ET

by Michael Rose (Apr 23rd, 2008)

We're going to be covering the Apple earnings call live at 5pm ET / 2 pm PT, now that the earnings report is out ($1.16 per share, hot hot hot!). To listen in on the call, you can pick up the QuickTime stream here. Remember, for ongoing coverage of AAPL be sure to check out our sister site ...

iPod rumors cause Apple stock to rise

by Scott McNulty (Aug 29th, 2007)

We all know that Apple is gathering the tech press for a Special Event (notice the capital letters) on September 5th, and it is pretty clear it has something to do with iPods. The rumors are swirling, and helping Apple's stock price. Goldman Sachs has told its clients that this event might introduce ...

AAPL drops more than 5 percent in wide market selloff

by Michael Rose (Feb 27th, 2007)

It may not have been the only bad news on a bleak Wall Street Tuesday, but Apple's 5.3% stock price drop (closing at 83.93, almost 14 points off of January's high) was certainly noticeable. Investors may have seized on the AppleTV ship delay as a sign of slipping execution for AAPL. Now get out ...

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