Apple has quietly released a tool on their App Store that "makes it easy for anyone to mass configure and deploy iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch in a school, business, or institution." Called Apple Configurator, this is clearly a move to change the perception in IT departments of the iPad and other iOS devices as purely one-off personal gadgets into fully featured enterprise solutions.

pubblicato il: 18/03/2012 - 15:54

We all know that is sitting on vast amounts of cash: we all also know that US corporations in general are cash rich at present. This is something of an economic problem as, of course, we would rather see this money being put to work. Either invested by the companies themselves in new activities or ...

pubblicato il: 15/03/2012 - 11:54

As I think we?ve all grasped by now is to pay a dividend and to buy back some stock as a way of making good use of its cash pile. However, there are those who are unhappy as a part of the plan: won?t be repatriating any of the cash it has overseas: On Monday, ...

pubblicato il: 22/03/2012 - 14:56

Tech giant announces dividend, stock buyback; stocks start week in neutral.

pubblicato il: 19/03/2012 - 15:56

Sales of 's iPhone surpassed shipments of the , Ontario-based smartphone maker's BlackBerry handsets in 2011, Bloomberg reported Thursday. sold 2.85 million iPhones in Canada last year, according to Bloomberg and IDC. RIM, by contrast, shipped just 2.08 million BlackBerrys in its home country. In 2008, the BlackBerrys outsold the iPhone by "almost five-to-one," according ...

pubblicato il: 23/03/2012 - 01:49

Last week, I suggested that would not be able to resist the pressure to return cash to its shareholders much longer in a post entitled: "Fine, No Dividend, But Could Use a Stock Buyback". This morning, 's Chief Financial Officer Peter Oppenheimer unveiled plans for a $10 billion dividend and up to $4 billion in ...

pubblicato il: 19/03/2012 - 16:53

It?s not often you hear Henry Ford, ?s and J.C.Penney mentioned in one breath, but that?s just what happened during a recent discussion about smart retailing and?? innovation, where old ideas are new again. ?Go back to the first retailer who really understood smart retailing, it was Henry Ford who said, ?if we asked our ...

pubblicato il: 13/03/2012 - 15:53

Now here?s a crazy idea. Bernstein Research analyst Toni Sacconaghi this morning addressed one of the Street?s favorite topics this morning: Apple?s capital allocation strategy. With around $100 billion in cash on the books, CEO Tim Cook recently has acknowledged that the company has more in the bank than it needs for the normal course ...

pubblicato il: 13/03/2012 - 19:25

Apple has no plans for a stock split. CEO Tim Cook, speaking on the company?s conference call this morning to announce their plans to initiate a $2.65 a share quarterly dividend and to buyback up to $10 billion of its common stock, also said that the company has looked at but decided against splitting the ...

pubblicato il: 19/03/2012 - 14:54

Apple this morning gave what amounts to a partial answer on how it will spend its large cash pile. With the new $2.65 a share quarterly dividend asnd a $10 billion three-year stock repurchase plan, the company will be giving back about $45 billion to shareholders over the next three years. But all of that ...

pubblicato il: 19/03/2012 - 14:54