Jefferies & Co. analyst Peter Misek late Monday reiterated his Buy rating on Apple shares, while boosting his target on the stock to $699 from $599. He also lifted his calendar 2012 estimate on iPhone unit sales to 155 million from 145 million. For calendar Q1, he now sees iPhone sales of 33.2 million units, ...

pubblicato il: 13/03/2012 - 07:24

With Apple shares continuing to climb higher and higher, some Street analysts are being forced to make a decision as the stock hits their target prices: changing their rating, or up their targets? To date, everyone is in the ?raise your target? camp. Morgan Stanley analyst Katy Huberty this morning repeated her Overweight rating on ...

pubblicato il: 14/03/2012 - 14:23

Well, this was inevitable. As I noted yesterday, with Apple?s stock price flirting with $600, the stock has soared past the target prices that many Street analysts had been using for the stock. That leaves them with a conundrum: raises their targets or reduce their ratings. So far, it looks like what we?re going to ...

pubblicato il: 16/03/2012 - 15:23

Last week, cloud operator Apptio announced a $50 million Series D funding (the company has raised a total of $91 million). T. Rowe Price Associates led the round, with follow-on investors??like Andreessen Horowitz, Greylock Partners, Madrona Venture Group and Shasta Ventures. Apptio has pioneered a new category in technology known as Technology (TMB). Think of ...

pubblicato il: 19/03/2012 - 21:42

From a passion to create a social experience that is both digital, autonomous and interactive comes a wonderful discovery that music, light and robotics are more similar than you might think. Leave it to the French to find a way to unite music, light and robotics to create a?? intelligent lanterns/lights that interact with your ...

pubblicato il: 26/03/2012 - 12:55

Beware the latest study: A new paper by two economists at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business offers some new statistical evidence for the "trickle-down spending" theory. According to the paper, by Marianne Bertrand and Adair Morse, cited in this week's Economist, rising consumption by rich households induces the non-rich to consume more. ...

pubblicato il: 22/03/2012 - 21:46

Employees in the U.S. continue to show a great deal of resiliency despite continued economic uncertainty. Last week we released our 2011 Year in Review research on financial trends among employees in the workplace. The key trends highlight a personal financial recovery that employees appear to be in the midst of despite global financial uncertainty. ...

pubblicato il: 14/03/2012 - 15:53

Sometimes in life, you reap what you sow. In law school, you succeed on your exams, especially in classes like Torts, by identifying as many causes of action in a fact pattern as you can. schools indoctrinate students to believe that creative, plaintiffs?-side lawyering equals successful lawyering. While it?s normally businesses that suffer at the ...

pubblicato il: 16/03/2012 - 17:25

When radical feminists publicly demand that their right to worry-free fornication be subsidized via a new government-enforced entitlement aggressively shoved down the throats of religious institutions in direct contravention to their principles, heedlessly trampling the First Amendment, it's time to use scorn and ridicule to fight back.

pubblicato il: 13/03/2012 - 18:54

According to a 2011 study by the , LGBT seniors are much less likely to seek out required health and social services because of their fear of discrimination from the people and organizations that should be helping them. The survey, "The Aging and Health Report: Disparities and Resilience among Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Older ...

pubblicato il: 22/03/2012 - 19:55