Apple

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19 September, 2012

Innovation matters: Why you care more about Apple than Kraft

Apple is launching the iPhone 5, and the market cap is hitting record highs. No wonder, what with pre-orders on ......

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22 August, 2012

Finance: Stirrers and shakers

Canadian Pacific Railway can claim, with some justification, to be the company that built Canada. It was only with the ......

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13 August, 2012

What Steve Jobs would tell Mark Zuckerberg

Mark Zuckerberg was Time magazine's Person of the Year in December, 2010. He was given that honor because Facebook dominated ......

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31 July, 2012

Earnings surprises, price reaction and value

The earnings season is upon us and each company’s earnings announcement is eagerly awaited, traded upon and talked about. For ......

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23 July, 2012

Apple vs Google: vertical integration vs crowd-sourcing

I am a big fan of both Apple and Google and from the distance see two very different DNAs that ......

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03 July, 2012

Why cost cutting never works!

Cost cutting never improves a company. Period.We've become so used to reading about reorganisations, layoffs and cost cutting that most ......

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19 June, 2012

Microsoft Win8 Tablet is not a game changer

While there is an appropriately high interest in the Win8 Tablet announcement from Microsoft today, there is no way it ......

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04 June, 2012

Buy Facebook now - Catch a lucky break!

On May 18 Facebook went public with an opening price of $38/share. Now, after just 2 weeks, it's more like ......