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Amazon and Apple: Two Tablet Makers, Two Drastically Different Fourth Quarters

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on January 30 at 5:00 pm PT

Amazon is expected to report a giant fourth quarter tomorrow, but the results couldn’t be more different from Apple’s monstrous fourth-quarter results reported last week.

Why $10 a Month for Hulu Is Too Much. And Too Little.

Peter Kafka in Media on April 22, 2010 at 3:00 am PT

Why a monthly subscription fee could end up disappointing Hulu’s users–and its owners.

Apple’s Tablet: A $2.8 Billion Business?

John Paczkowski in Mobile on January 25, 2010 at 5:20 am PT

We’re still a few days away from the presumed unveiling of Apple’s mythical tablet computer and already, analysts are trying to divine the impact the new device will have on the company’s bottom line. RBC Capital Markets analyst Mike Abramsky expects Apple to sell five million tablets in the product’s first year at market.

No Matter How Hard You Try, You Can’t Get Apple to Say Anything Nice About a Netbook

Peter Kafka in Media on July 21, 2009 at 3:32 pm PT

This is now an Apple earnings-call tradition: Analysts try their hardest to convince Apple executives to express interest in the booming market for cheap netbooks and Apple executives make it perfectly clear how much disdain they have for netbooks. But an $800 iTablet? That’s something else altogether…

Apple Q3: BOOM!

John Paczkowski in News on July 21, 2009 at 1:35 pm PT

The economy is in recession, consumer spending is down and the PC market is in the worst decline since the Great Dark Times of 2001. And Apple is doing just fine. After market close Tuesday, the company reported earnings that crushed the Street’s estimates into a fine iPod-white dust. Analysts surveyed by Thomson Reuters estimated that Apple would earn $1.16 per share on $8.16 billion in sales. Instead, it earned $1.35 on $8.34 billion for a profit of $1.23 billion.

Morgan Stanley Upgrades Apple to King of Mobile Internet

John Paczkowski in News on May 26, 2009 at 9:11 am PT

Apple has $29 billion in cash, no debt, a 36 percent gross margin, and it’s on the cusp of another iPhone ugrade cycle. Little wonder, then, that analysts are raising their target prices on the company’s stock. Among those doing so today: Morgan Stanley’s Kathryn Huberty, who says “Apple is emerging as the clear leader in the battle over the mobile Internet.”

Apple's Q1 Blowout

John Paczkowski in News on January 21, 2009 at 1:39 pm PT

Morbidly inclined investors and business media can speculate all they like about Apple CEO Steve Jobs’s health and Apple’s future with or without him, but in fact, the company has never been healthier. Apple just reported a blowout quarter.

Apple’s Q1 Blowout

John Paczkowski in News on January 21, 2009 at 1:39 pm PT

Morbidly inclined investors and business media can speculate all they like about Apple CEO Steve Jobs’s health and Apple’s future with or without him, but in fact, the company has never been healthier. Apple just reported a blowout quarter.