Steve Jobs

Economically, Siri has provided Apple with billions of dollars in profit. It has helped the company sell more iPhones than it could have ever imagined. But as the number of Siri users continues to rise (more than 70 million people now own an iPhone 4S), Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) has incurred a growing...

The debate on billionaires and their debt to society rages on. While some believe that Steve Jobs did the right thing in choosing to keep his money, others think that the Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) co-founder should have donated his wealth to some philanthropic cause. Last summer, I dissected this issue...

With another 35 million iPhones, 11.8 million iPads, 7.7 million iPods, and 4 million Macs sold, Apple impressed investors with its Q2 results. Since the company's earnings were announced after the market close yesterday, the stock has soared, initially rising 7%, and now hovering between an...

Apple might continue to break records, but that doesn't mean that analysts have warmed up to the firm's chief executive. For better or worse, many analysts are still mourning the loss of Steve Jobs -- both as a person and as a corporate leader. "The biggest question for investors is: Steve Jobs...

On the cusp of earnings, one analyst weighs in on the future of Apple. "I have followed Steve Jobs for more than 20 years," Trip Chowdhry, the Managing Director of Equity Research at Global Equities Research, told Benzinga. "There was only one Thomas Edison. There was only one Albert Einstein....

While the news of Ashton Kutcher (seriously??) playing Steve Jobs in an upcoming indie movie may be a downer to some Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) lovers, fans of the technology juggernaut can take heart. Shares of America's largest company by market value shook off the news of an actor known more for his...

The famed Apple founder did not greenlight Apple's latest television product. That's according to a former Apple TV engineer, who famously tweeted (in reference to Apple TV), “@aral Fun fact - those new designs were tossed out 5 years ago because SJ didn't like them. Now there is nobody to say ‘no...

How does Apple's new CEO compare with the company's legendary founder? During a recent discussion with Trip Chowdhry, the Global Equities Research analyst weighed in on the matter. “What we are sensing is, which we may be wrong in our observation, but we have seen a clear separation between Tim...

It turns out that Apple's patent problems are nothing compared to the class-action lawsuit the company is facing. In a surprise development that could significantly impact the public image of several tech corporations, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), Google (NASDAQ: GOOG), Adobe (NASDAQ: ADBE), Intel (...

As the year winds down, traders may be looking for stocks to keep on their watch list heading into the New Year. For active traders, 2011 has had a variety of story lines. Stocks like Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX), Green Mountain Coffee (NYSE: GMCR), and InterDigital (NASDAQ: IDCC) dominated the...