Trip Chowdhry

Opera may be a good browser, but there's one analyst who thinks the idea of a Facebook acquisition would be downright stupid. "Opera is a good browser, and most of its traction comes from feature phones," said Trip Chowdhry, the Managing Director of Equity Research at Global Equities Research. "...

Investors are quickly losing interest in the world's most popular social network, which went public last Friday. While many expected Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) shares to fly high -- maybe not on the level of LinkedIn (NASDAQ: LNKD), but certainly on par with other major IPOs -- the company ended its...

The search engine giant might finally have something to celebrate. While Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) has repeatedly failed to crack two key markets -- music downloads and social networking -- the company might be on to something huge with its cloud-based storage initiative. According to Trip Chowdhry,...

Which social network will reign supreme? For the time being, it might appear that the two are vastly different websites. But while the LinkedIn (NASDAQ: LNKD) we know and love today serves the professional world, Google+ (NASDAQ: GOOG) may soon attempt to serve everyone. "I would say that if you...

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....

Last time on the hit soap opera, "As The World Turns…Around Apple," more than 37 million people purchased the iPhone 4S, prompting a plethora of new investors to jump on the Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) bandwagon. During its fiscal first quarter, Apple reported an EPS of $13.87 on sales of $46.3 billion...

The rumors of a "Mini" Apple product might be dead on, but they may not have anything to do with a smaller iPad. Rather, they could involve a miniature iOS device that no one saw coming: a pint-sized iPhone. "iPad Mini is not going to cut it because if you create an iPad Mini -- which would be a...

Should Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) and Rovi (NASDAQ: ROVI) give up on buying TiVo? Granted, we don't know for sure that any of those companies were seriously planning to buy the DVR manufacturer. But the rumors insist that someone, somewhere wants to buy...