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Is Apple Pivoting Into A Subscription Software Company?
Tuesday, June 14, 2016 - 11:38am | 259Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) is trying to make a big change to its business model to make up for a saturating iPhone market. According to Global Equities Research’s Trip Chowdhry, that transition involves creating a unique ecosystem for each of the company’s devices. “Apple is...
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What Alphabet's Google Is Doing With Chrome And Android By 2017
Friday, October 30, 2015 - 11:01am | 382The Wall Street Journal reported that Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL)'s Google plans to "fold" its Chrome operating system into its Android mobile operating system. Google engineers have been working for roughly two years to combine the operating systems. Google...
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Will Microsoft Corporation's Windows 10 Outsell Windows 8, OS X?
Wednesday, October 1, 2014 - 1:42pm | 734Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) teased its next OS this week and announced that will be called Windows 10. The new version contains a real Start button and looks like a cross between Windows 7 and Windows 8. Thomas H. Yorke, managing director of Oceanic Capital Management, told Benzinga...
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Is Microsoft Office For Android Tablets Ready For Beta Testing?
Monday, July 7, 2014 - 9:13am | 709Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), according to The Verge, may be ready to beta test a new version of Office, this one for Android tablets. Sources told The Verge that Microsoft was preparing a private beta test for the Office for Android tablet version and that the company was accepting participants...
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What Is Apple Most Likely To Announce At WWDC?
Monday, June 2, 2014 - 12:22pm | 124The Worldwide Developers Conference is upon us -- are you ready? Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) is expected to announce something unexpected this week, and investors can be sure that iOS 8 and the next version of OS X will make an appearance. That's the predictable stuff, but what about the awe-...
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Three Apple Stories Making Headlines Wednesday
Wednesday, February 26, 2014 - 11:30am | 456Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) gained about one percent Wednesday to close at $522.06—still well below its 50-day moving average. The velocity of the downward move has slowed, perhaps indicating that profit taking is coming to an end, but the charts still indicate possible downside risk. Here are a few...
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Windows 8 Now Loaded Onto 9.3% Of All PCs
Friday, December 6, 2013 - 2:31pm | 459More consumers and business professionals are using Microsoft's (NASDAQ: MSFT) latest operating system than ever before. According to The Next Web, Windows 8 or Windows 8.1 can now be found on 9.3 percent of all computers. This includes notebooks, desktops and tablet hybrids, such as Surface. On...
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SLIDESHOW: The Best Features Of Windows 8 (MSFT)
Sunday, August 11, 2013 - 1:38pm | 186Based on the deluge of blogger headlines, some consumers may be under the impression that Windows 8 has taken a few steps back in terms of OS innovation. On the contrary, Windows 8 simply does things differently. Underneath those differences (such as the relocation of the popular Start button...
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Apple's Mountain Lion OS X Update Sells Three Million in Four Days
Monday, July 30, 2012 - 1:12pm | 199Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) has achieved "better than expected" sales from Mountain Lion, the latest update to the company's flagship operating system. According to The Wall Street Journal, this is Apple's most successful OS release yet. "Those are good numbers from an operating system," Rob Enderle, an...
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Apple's Pricey Message to Consumers: Don't You Dare Buy Lion at Retail
Thursday, July 21, 2011 - 11:15am | 801Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) has a new plan to push consumers to the App Store: charge too much for the alternative. The long-awaited Mac OS X Lion arrived yesterday, and if a Global Equities Research report is accurate, the snazzy upgrade has already been sold to more than 650,000 Mac users. That's an...