7 posts and columns on Andy Kessler

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How Much Is Apple Worth?

in News on March 16 at 5:03 am PT

Apple is a juggernaut. Its stock touched $600 on Thursday, which represents $560 billion in market capitalization. Compare this to Exxon Mobil, with a market cap of $400 billion, IBM’s $240 billion and Wal-Mart’s $210 billion. Can Apple really be worth that much?

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When Will Social Media Elect a President?

in Social on February 29 at 10:08 pm PT

The Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858 took place over seven venues, with 10,000-20,000 attendees and no microphones.

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How Videogames Are Changing the Economy

in News on January 4, 2011 at 9:53 am PT

This fall, the Chinese National University of Defense Technology announced that it had created the world’s fastest supercomputer, Tianhe-1A, which clocks in at 2.5 petaflops (or 2,500 trillion operations) per second. This is the shape of the world to come—but not in the way you might think.

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The iPhone, Net Neutrality and the FCC

in News on June 11, 2010 at 2:25 pm PT

AT&T’s Picturephone, shown at the 1964 World’s Fair, was a huge flop. Apple’s new iPhone 4, announced this week, has a front-facing camera for video chats. It might succeed, except that AT&T isn’t providing enough bandwidth capacity.

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Why AT&T Killed Google Voice

in News on August 19, 2009 at 12:04 pm PT

Earlier this month, Apple rejected an application for the iPhone called Google Voice. The uproar set off a chain of events—Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt resigning from Apple’s board, and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) investigating wireless open access and handset exclusivity—that may finally end the 135-year-old Alexander Graham Bell era. It’s about time.