Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) is now planning to come up with a set top box for video streaming, reports Bloomberg Businessweek. The planned video streaming device from the online retailer will push Amazon’s streaming services and will be direct competition to Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL)’s TV, or the Roku box and the Boxee Cloud DVR. Foray into the television set-top box is a logical step for Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN). The company already makes e-readers and tablets,...
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Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) shares have tanked almost 40 percent from their all-time highs over concerns of Samsung’s rising dominance in the smartphone industry. However, Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) has a loyal customer base who keep buying more and more of Apple gadgets, according to research by Raymond James. The consumer web survey conducted by Raymond James in late March found some interesting facts about the smartphone market. The survey found that 53 percent of iPhone...
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Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) Needs to Deal with this Threat in right away.To say that the Samsung momentum is an issue for Apple is an understatement, according to analysts at Barclays research, who recently issued a new research note. Hedge funds have been aggressively selling Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) during Q4. Analysts at Barclays believe that not only is Samsung helping its own cause, but its success catalyzes Android as well. As a result, they “need to see”...
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Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) launched the iTunes store in India and 54 other countries some months back, this enabled users from these countries to purchase music, movies and TV shows with their local credit and debit cards. But the problem till now was that Apple TV was not officially launched in these countries. Today, Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) has finally launched Apple TV in India, with a price tag of Rs 7900 (approx. $150). Strangely, the price...
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Apple Inc (NASDAQ:AAPL) is likely to announce a new product in March or April, according to a new report from Pipper Jaffray’s Gene Munster. Hebelieves that looking at the history of time between Apple product launch events suggests that the company will introduce something new in March or April. Over the past two years, the Spring event has been iPad updates. While Apple just introduced the iPad Mini in October and made minor updates...
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Apple TV. It’s been a set top box for years, but financial analysts and Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) fans alike have been looking for something more under that title for at least as long. At long last it appears there is some kind of evidence to suggest that the company plans to launch a full television, and that launch could come some time this year. A Jefferies Research report on the subject outlines a product...
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Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) is supposedly in talks to launch Time Warner Cable Inc (NYSE:TWC)’s HBO Go application on Apple TV by mid- 2013, revealed Bloomberg citing anonymous sources familiar with the development. Subscribers will be able to watch more than 600 hours of films and television shown on Apple TV, after paying for HBO, according to the sources. Apple TV is a set top device, which shows content purchased by the subscribers on iTune,...
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Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) has seen its share price depreciate significantly over the past several months. Many analysts have reacted by downgrading the stock, which is a self fulfilling prophecy. However, analysts at Barclays put out a lengthy research note in an attempt to calm fears about the tech giant. We already provided a brief summary of the report, but we wanted to focus on the conference call in particular. While everyone knows that the reaction to the...
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In response to a Tuesday FCC filing which suggested an Apple TV redesign, Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) has said this isn’t the case, but only tweaks have been made to the product’s designs. According to The Verge, there’s no redesign on the horizon and contrary to the FCC, the new Apple TV model will come in the same size, identical to the current version with the same functionality. What’s the one difference? A new model number and...
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Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (LON:BC94), LG Electronics, and Toshiba Corp (PINK:TOSBF) (TYO:6502), in anticipation of the long awaited Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) TV set, have responded to the potential competition with their own smartphone-esque TV sets. The TV’s, with a number of similarities to smartphones, will be able to respond to voice commands, connect to the internet for video streaming, and quickly flick between Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ:NFLX) and ESPN. The latest models from LG and Panasonic...
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Rumors have, for years, circled around the possibility that Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) would launch a full television as a new product line. The company has never made any announcements about such a product, nor have any reliable details ever been released. Most of the information surrounding the Apple Television, or iTV, comes from a single analyst, Gene Munster of Piper Jaffray. The analyst correctly predicted the release of the iPad in 2010, and has...
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