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Hollis Johnson Apple will launch three new iPhone models in 2018, Nomura analysts predict. The analysts believe Apple is preparing a 6.5-inch iPhone like the iPhone X but with a bigger OLED screen. Apple will also launch a successor to the iPhone X with a 5.8-inch OLED screen, the analysts write. The third, lower-cost model […]
AT&T Traditional pay-TV packages are in decline and new “digital” ones are trying to scoop up customers. A wide variety of digital packages have sprouted up, from Hulu with Live TV, to Sling TV, to DirecTV Now. Analysts at UBS made a chart to show how good a deal each service is, and the winner […]
Gregg Zaun has been fired from Sportsnet due to “inappropriate behaviour and comments” toward female employees. Rick Brace, President of Rogers Media, said in a statement Thursday that the company was terminating the contract of the Blue Jays analyst effective immediately. “This week, we received complaints from multiple female employees at Sportsnet regarding inappropriate behaviour […]
Internet analyst Ben Thompson agrees with the FCC’s plan to repeal Obama-era net-neutrality rules, but misinterprets some key facts in the debate. https://media.wired.com/photos/5988d5a9504e243e8bfa673e/master/pass/wired-headers2400-B4.png Feed: All Latest
Hollis Johnson An analyst downgraded Chipotle’s stock citing labor costs. The idea that Chipotle is paying its workers too much points to a misconception that labor costs shouldn’t have to rise. The author argues Chipotle’s inability—or unwillingness—to drive labor costs proportionally lower may actually be a positive sign. Chipotle had its stock downgraded on Wednesday by […]
Oracle Oracle loves to pick fights with Amazon Web Services in the database and cloud markets, but the enemy it should really take aim at is Microsoft, according to one analyst. “Microsoft is their big competitor,” says Larry Carvalho, lead analyst on platform-as-a-service at IDC. Amazon may be a giant in the cloud world but Microsoft is a bigger threat to the […]
The whole Pacific Rim agenda is predicated on poor relations with North Korea and being on a war footing. The only reason the US is there is to counter China, while North Korea is just theater, geopolitical analyst Patrick Henningsen says. The US flew B-1B Lancer bombers, escorted by F-15 fighters, off North Korea’s east […]
Commenting on the scandal around CNN’s Trump and Russia coverage, former CIA analyst and whistleblower John Kiriakou says that sensationalism in the media is not likely to go away. Kiriakou, who retired from the CIA in 2004 and was the first former US official to admit waterboarding had been used to interrogate Al-Qaeda prisoners, is […]
RBC Capital Markets Matthew Eckler has an unusual background for a Wall Streeter. He didn’t attend a top business school, nor did he get a degree in finance or economics. The senior biotech analyst holds a BS in biology and a PhD in molecular biology. And before Eckler nabbed a position at RBC Capital Markets, the […]
In the past couple of years, there were a lot of stories about how Moore’s Law was slowing down. That was a reason for financial panic, as it suggested that technological progress was slowing and that the global economy could suffer as a result. Only it wasn’t really true. Gordon Moore, Intel’s chairman emeritus, predicted […]
