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SLIDESHOW: iPad Mini 2 Delay, Leaked iPad 5 Video And More From The First Week Of October
Saturday, October 5, 2013 - 10:47am | 209Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) may have had a good week or a bad week, depending on the rumors investors choose to believe. One rumor claimed that the company either delayed the iPad Mini 2 or that device quantities will be very limited when the unit ships. Another rumor showed the potential of a...
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Adobe Security Breach Affects 2.9 Million Users; Are Investors Aware?
Friday, October 4, 2013 - 1:25pm | 637Investors seem to be oblivious to the fact that Adobe (NASDAQ: ADBE) has encountered a massive security breach. On Thursday, the company admitted that its security team had discovered that an unspecified number of "sophisticated attacks" had occurred on Adobe's network. Through those attacks,...
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Surprise Hit Product for Microsoft, Despite Critic Naysayers
Friday, May 31, 2013 - 7:14am | 555Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) has a hit on its hands and no, it’s not the Windows 8 reboot. It’s not even the upcoming Xbox. It’s in the form of an old friend that continues to silently deliver yet receives little credit. It’s Office. Unlike Windows over the years, Microsoft has done a pretty good...
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Adobe's 'Creative' Decision Angers 5,000 Customers
Friday, May 10, 2013 - 11:18am | 739In an effort to curb piracy and increase perpetual sales of Photoshop and other programs, Adobe (NASDAQ: ADBE) announced that it will not produce a seventh-generation version of Creative Suite. The current version, CS6, will still be sold (for the time being, at least). Without another upgrade,...
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Apple Accused of Price-Gouging Australian Consumers
Monday, February 11, 2013 - 12:29pm | 442Nearly one year ago, the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission accused Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) of misleading consumers when it released the third-generation iPad. The ACCC alleged that Apple's worldwide promotional materials -- which emphasized the cellular version as "Wi-Fi + 4G" -- were...
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Adobe Tempts Users with Forbidden Fruit, Could Take Legal Action if You Bite
Tuesday, January 8, 2013 - 2:32pm | 605Monday's free Photoshop offer was not technically free, but it is still available to anyone capable of clicking a link. On Adobe's (NASDAQ: ADBE) forum page, the Community Administrator stated the following: "Effective December 13, Adobe disabled the activation server for CS2 products and Acrobat...
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Free Photoshop Offer Overflows Adobe's Site, Halts New Downloads
Monday, January 7, 2013 - 4:08pm | 457Adobe's (NASDAQ: ADBE) decision to give away Creative Suite 2 (which includes the CS2 version of Photoshop) has proved to be very popular with consumers from all over the world. As of this writing, the CS2 download link contains the following "Site Area Temporarily Unavailable" message: "We're...
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Barron's Recap (12/15/12): Outlook for 2013
Saturday, December 15, 2012 - 2:47pm | 854This weekend in Barron's online: the outlook for 2013 and the prospects for Johnson & Johnson, Hudson Bay, Tronox and South Korea. Cover Story "Outlook 2013" by Vito J. Racanelli. Ten strategists recently polled by Barron's expect more gains ahead next year. Even if no fiscal cliff deal is...
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Adobe Gains 5% on Record Q4 Results, New Creative Cloud Users
Friday, December 14, 2012 - 3:13pm | 499Adobe (NASDAQ: ADBE) is on the rise today as investors buy into the company's current success, as well as its potential future in the cloud. The Photoshop maker reported fourth quarter FY2012 results of $1.153 billion, exceeding the company's targeted range of $1.075 billion to $1.125 billion....
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Earnings Expectations for the Week of December 10
Sunday, December 9, 2012 - 3:24pm | 734There will not be much on the earnings front this week to distract from the wrangling over the so-called fiscal cliff and debt ceiling, as well as the Federal Reserve's latest rate decision and any changes to quantitative easing. The only S&P 500 components on deck to share their most recent...
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Apple's One Weakness: Ripping People Off Unnecessarily
Monday, July 23, 2012 - 2:01pm | 609No one loves change more than Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), but is the company's strategy - build, destroy, and repeat - a necessary part of its evolution? Or is it holding Apple back? There has been a ridiculous amount of media attention surrounding the 30-pin connector that currently sits underneath the...
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Four Stocks That Should Abolish Piracy Laws
Friday, May 4, 2012 - 8:22am | 1222These four corporations should take the laws on piracy and throw them into the meat grinder as soon as possible. The reason? There are many. But in short, current piracy laws make it easier for content to be distributed illegally than through any of the legal channels. It's time for that to change...
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Apple's Deadliest Lawsuit has Nothing to Do With Samsung or HTC
Friday, January 20, 2012 - 11:52am | 600It turns out that Apple's patent problems are nothing compared to the class-action lawsuit the company is facing. In a surprise development that could significantly impact the public image of several tech corporations, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), Google (NASDAQ: GOOG), Adobe (NASDAQ: ADBE), Intel (...
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Adobe Abandons Flash Platform on Mobile and TV, What Does this Mean?
Thursday, November 10, 2011 - 5:17pm | 308With Adobe (NASDAQ: ADBE) abandoning the Flash platform on mobile and television, what does this mean for the rest of the technology landscape? 1) Steve Jobs was right. People didn't really need flash on their mobile device. Flash was a resource hog, it sapped processor cycles and battery life...
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New 3D Functionality and Aperture-Inspired Theme Coming to Photoshop CS6
Friday, October 28, 2011 - 3:03pm | 228The world's most successful (and most pirated) digital image editor is about to get a significant upgrade. That's according to AppleInsider, which says that “people familiar with builds of the software” are seeing a darker, Aperture-like user interface. That, however, is a minor adjustment. Lots...