Steve Jobs rumor: What can the SEC do?
4 Oct 2008 1:17pm GMT Should investors take comfort in the news that the Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating “Johntw,” the as-yet unidentified rumor mongerer who briefly drove Apple (AAPL) down nearly 10% Friday before Apple PR finally broke its silence and let it be known that Steve Jobs had not, in fact, suffered a heart attack? (link) Not necessarily. As [...]
The survey that squashed Apple - Part 2
2 Oct 2008 11:28am GMT On Tuesday we looked at one part of the ChangeWave survey that helped trigger the largest one-day drop in Apple’s (AAPL) share price in eight years. It showed a falloff in corporate plans to buy Apple computers over the next 90 days. (See here.) Today we got our hands on the second part — the consumer [...]
Stop the presses: Apple waved an olive branch
1 Oct 2008 9:14pm GMT If you ever wanted a demonstration of Apple’s out-sized power over the Internet chattering classes, you need look no further than the front page of Techmeme, the premier site for catching up on the hottest tech news of the day. On Wednesday morning, Apple (AAPL) announced on its developers Web site that it was dropping the [...]
Mac ‘market share’ hits record 8.28%
1 Oct 2008 11:51am GMT The presence on the Internet of both the Mac and the iPhone grew smartly this summer, registering record numbers for each operating system in the Net Applications survey issued overnight Wednesday. The Mac’s share of Web hits grew 5.34% to a record 8.28% last month, according to the Web metrics firm’s September survey. The iPhone’s share, [...]
The survey that squashed Apple
30 Sep 2008 12:00pm GMT When RBC Capital analyst Mike Abramsky downgraded his Apple rating on Monday — helping spark the sharpest selloff in the company’s shares in eight years — he cited a survey that RBC conducted with ChangeWave that suggested that sales of Apple’s hot-selling computers were cooling off. RBC’s version of the survey showed that the percentage of [...]