by Erik Kain on February 17, 2012
All the early reviews of ‘s new Mountain Lion operating system for its Mac computers (10.8) point to the same thing: Macs are going to run more and more like iPads, iPhones, and iPod Touch. Many of the features of iOS are present in the new Mac operating system. There’s one glaring exception: no Mac [...]
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by Erik Kain on February 1, 2012
Is [AAPL] undervalued or are investors simply predicting slower future growth for the tech giant? Matt Yglesias captions: Back before the crisis, the market was comfortable valuing at something like 35 times earnings. If that pattern continued today, the company would have a staggering market capitalization. Instead, earnings have surged so much faster than share price [...]
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by Erik Kain on January 26, 2012
announced recently its entrance into the digital textbook market. Dead-tree textbooks, the company claims, are a thing of the past. And, as David Thier notes, is off to a very strong start with its new textbook service – selling over 350,000 textbooks in just three days. Many are enthusiastic about the tech giant’s entrance into [...]
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by Erik Kain on October 5, 2011
Apple is reporting that co-founder and longtime CEO of the company, Steve Jobs, has died at the age of 56. Jobs was just 21 when he helped found the fledgling computer company. Apple is now one of the largest companies in the world. Its resurgent success was largely due to Jobs’s uncompromising vision as CEO, [...]
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