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Reports out of the Apple (AAPL) shareholders meeting today are not very encouraging if you are an investor in the company. One of the first questions posed to Steve Jobs during the Q&A session, the first Jobs has attended since his medical leave of absence, concerned the odd decision made by the company to sit [...]

After seeing Apple’s unveiling of the new iPad tablet yesterday my overall conclusion is that the product is very solid and will probably find a niche with certain users, but it hardly seems to be the game changer for old media that many had hoped for.
Essentially the iPad is a thin, light-weight, extremely mobile device [...]

When shares of Palm (PALM) were trading in the mid single digits I was quite bullish on the company’s stock simply because a revamped product line and a private equity capital infusion would likely serve to keep the company afloat and give it a chance to reverse a declining sales trend. We now find ourselves [...]

From Fox Business:
“Tesla Motors, maker of luxury-all-electric cars, is reportedly planning a stock offering. If the sale occurs, Tesla would be the first U.S. car company to issue shares since Ford Motor Co. in 1956.”
This is very exciting news. Not necessarily from an investment standpoint (it will likely be a while [...]

In recent days I have been paying special attention to shares of Blackberry maker Research in Motion (RIMM). The stock is one that had decent earnings this quarter but some investors wanted more, which prompted a pretty significant sell off in the stock. Despite the market having recently made new yearly highs, RIMM shares have [...]

Many investors often confuse good products for good stocks. Surely the two can go hand in hand, but that is not always the case. Although they make great products, I am wary of standalone GPS hardware companies such as Garmin (GRMN). With smartphones quickly becoming multipurpose devices, including GPS, the market for standalone GPS devices [...]

Earlier this year I wrote separate pieces highlighting both Research in Motion (RIMM), maker of the Blackberry and smart phone staple, and Palm (PALM), the turnaround story trying to get their name back into the mix. In the four months or so since then both stocks have soared, nearly doubling in each case (PALM from [...]

It has been a long time since I can recall seeing a blue chip company like Dell (DELL) carry such a meager stock market valuation. It is true that Hewlett Packard (HPQ) has been stealing market share from Dell in recent years, and even overtook them as the world’s leading computer maker, but investors seem [...]

Shares of Research in Motion (RIMM), maker of the popular Blackberry line of smart phones have fallen to $44 per share and the latest news is that the SEC has reached a settlement with RIM executives over an options backdating scandal. I thought options backdating was over and done with, but evidently there are still [...]

As an Apple (AAPL) shareholder, the recent handling of disclosures regarding the health of CEO Steve Jobs has me upset like most other investors. For some reason, Apple’s board of directors believes that a CEO facing a potentially fatal cancer is not “material” piece of news.
They didn’t tell us right away when Jobs was diagnosed [...]