The employees of Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) emerged as the most optimistic in terms of the prospects of the search engine giant in the future compared with the workforce of 250,000 firms who shared their insights about their jobs and companies. Data from Glassdoor, a career website, revealed Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) ranked number one in the list of Top 10 Companies with the Best Business Outlook. Eighty six percent (86%) of its employees have a positive...
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Maverick Capital’s portfolio was worth $7.7 billion, according to its latest 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. During the first quarter of the year, the firm bought 19 new stocks and increased its stake in 19 others. It also sold out of 20 stocks and reduced its holdings in 17 others. The fund’s top 10 holdings make up just under 36 percent of its portfolio. As of the end of March, the...
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Leon G. Cooperman’s Omega Advisors has a portfolio that was worth $6.46 billion at the end of March, according to the firm’s latest 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. During the first quarter of the year, the firm bought 20 new stocks and increased its position in 30 others. It also exited 15 stocks and reduced its position in 11 others. The firm’s top 10 holdings make up for 38 percent of...
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Karsch Capital Management LP revealed in its first quarter 13F filing that it added 21 new stocks to its portfolio, bought more shares of six stocks, exited 19 stocks and reduced holdings in five stocks. The top ten holdings of Karsch Capital represent 55.48 percent of its portfolio. The hedge fund’s long-only investment portfolio posted a 10% gain in the first quarter of this year. Overall, Karsch Capital returned 4.4 percent in the first three months...
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The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) issued a notice outlining its proposal to create rules intended to expand the access of broadband services onboard planes by establishing an air-ground mobile broadband service, which would operate in the 14.0-14.5 GHz band, on a secondary, non-interference basis with Fixed-Satellite Service (FSS) Earth-to-space communications. According to the FCC, “The key to such band sharing is spatial diversity, with FSS earth station antennas oriented to the south and above the horizon,...
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QUALCOMM, Inc. (NASDAQ:QCOM) recently welcomed a Silicon Valley veteran Jonathan Rubinstein to their Board of Directors. The executive recently was SVP of Product Innovation for Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE:HPQ). He also lead HP’s Palm Global Business Unit and prior to that he was the Executive Chairman of Palm Inc which was eventually acquired by Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE:HPQ). Previously, he also ran the iPod division and iMac engineering team. His long and impressive resume includes Stardent...
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First Eagle Investment Management recently filed its 13F with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) showing that its total assets under management increased from approximately $28.06 billion to almost $30 billion for the first quarter of 2013. During the quarter, the mutual fund acquired 52 new stocks, boosted its stockholdings in across 86 stocks, reduced its stake in 72 stocks, and sold its entire position in 24 stocks. First Eagle Investment’s largest stock holdings...
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QUALCOMM, Inc. (NASDAQ:QCOM) released its earnings report for the first three months of 2013 this afternoon, Wednesday April 24, after the market closed. The company showed earnings of $1.17 per share for the first quarter of the new year, on revenue of $6.12 billion. On today’s market shares in Qualcomm rose, finishing the day at $66. In anticipation of this report, analysts were looking for earnings of $1.17 per share for the company on revenues...
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Without doubt, smartphone is the latest holy grail of the consumer electronics market. As such the market is full of many competitors, but a vast majority of profits is contributed by Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) – the company with a first moving advantage; and Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (LON:BC94) (KRX:005930) – which capitalized on the way shown by Apple. At the start of the month, Samsung unveiled its latest offering in the form of the Galaxy S4....
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Sharp Corporation (ADR) (PINK:SHCAY), ailing Japanese electronics maker said that it will miss a March 29 deadline to receive the second half of a $120 million investment from the Chipmaker Qualcomm, Inc. (NASDAQ:QCOM). Sharp will not be getting the remaining half of the investment amount as it failed to complete a plan to start fabricating power-saving screens, which is being developed by the two companies together. San Diego based chipmaker, Qualcomm paid half of...
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Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) is rumored to have chosen QUALCOMM, Inc. (NASDAQ:QCOM)’s Snapdragon over its own A-series chips for the low-end iPhone.While such a move might save on costs, it is a departure from its usual strategy of tightly controlling the smartphone experience that has worked well in developed markets. Either way, Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) needs a cheaper iPhone for the emerging markets where low-end Androids are rapidly taking away market share says Trefis in...
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