Tag Archive | "product-launch"

Apple Aficionados?

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Well in case if you were wondering if I ever get up from my desk, here’s evidence to the contrary, courtesy of this morning’s San Francisco Chronicle. In the photo, taken at yesterday’s Apple product launch event, that’s me in the middle; the Apple aficionado on the right is my [...]

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Apple’s Music Product Launches: Revisiting The Rumors

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So, it turns out that Apple (AAPL) is still leakier than CEO Steve Jobs might like.
A quick review of some of the rumors on what the company had planned for today’s product launch event finds that the chatter was generally accurate, although in some cases they were over-reaching. Here’s a [...]

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Apple: 99 Cent TV Episode Rentals Coming From Fox, Disney

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Apple (AAPL) on Wednesday will unveil plans to offer 99-cent television show rentals through the iTunes store from both Disney’s (DIS) ABC Network and News Corp.’s (NWS) Fox, the Wall Street Journal reports, citing “people familiar with the matter.”
Apple is holding a product launch event on Wednesday in San Francisco, [...]

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RIMM “Talladega” Slider Is No iPhone Killer, Analyst Contends

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The next big product launch from Research In Motion (RIMM) is expected to “Talladega,” a touch-screen BlackBerry with a slide-out keyboard. Can the new phone take on the latest Apple and Android models? Alas, probably not, asserts Charter Equity Research analyst Edward Snyder.
Snyder writes in a research note that he [...]

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Apple: Buy Their Stuff, Or Buy Their Shares?

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A U.C.-Berkeley undergrad named Kyle Conroy has compiled a fun table looking at how much money you would have made if on the day of any given Apple (AAPL) product launch since 1997, you had chosen instead to buy Apple shares instead.
Example: if on November 10, 1997, you spent $3000 [...]

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