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End Of An Era: What To Make Of Jony Ive's Departure From Apple
Monday, December 2, 2019 - 12:00pm | 687Jony Ive, Apple Inc.'s (NASDAQ: AAPL) longtime chief design officer, on June 27 announced his plans to leave the iPhone maker to start his own independent design company of which Apple will be a client. Ive's name was offically removed from Apple's website on Nov. 28. Writing...
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Analysts React To Amazon's Q1: Everyone Remains A Bull
Friday, April 26, 2019 - 10:55am | 1222Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) reported a notable beat on the profit line in its first-quarter results, although management's operating profit outlook for the second quarter fell short of expectations. Here is a summary of how some of the Street's top analysts reacted to the print. The...
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3 Ways Amazon Could Transform Health Care
Tuesday, May 15, 2018 - 10:22am | 363Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) was reported last week to be building out a health and wellness team within its Alexa division to better integrate the assistant in health care. Loup Ventures considers this program just the start of a broader, three-pronged invasion of the $3.3 trillion industry....
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Waymo Works To Build Trust As First Pilot-Free Vehicle Hits The Road
Monday, November 13, 2017 - 9:46am | 390Last week, Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOGL) (NASDAQ: GOOG)’s Waymo became the first to test fully autonomous vehicles on public roads without a front-seat technician. The firm still faces challenges in public perception and regulation, but it’s taking strides with education partnerships,...
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The Robot Fear Index: Alexa, Siri Lure US Into AI Future
Monday, November 6, 2017 - 3:52pm | 505Beware the sirens. Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL)’s Siri and Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN)’s Alexa are quieting concerns over robot integration and winning consumers’ welcome. A proliferation of digital assistants corresponded with a marginal increase in American comfort with robots...
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Dance The Roomba: iRobot's Sterling Second Quarter Has Pro Bullish On Domestic Robot Space
Thursday, July 27, 2017 - 1:29pm | 408iRobot Corporation (NASDAQ: IRBT)'s stellar second quarter makes Loup Ventures' Andrew Murphy more bullish on a market that includes robots that clean your floors and cut your lawn. Revenue for the second quarter of 2017 was $183.1 million, compared with $148.7 million for the second...
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The Screenless Future
Friday, June 30, 2017 - 12:39pm | 473Augmented reality wearables are going to replace your next iPhone? Loup Ventures managing partner Andrew Murphy sees this happening in the future, and for one simple reason, companies want to solve consumer problems. “We’ll eventually look back at the turn of the century and wonder how...
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Investing In The Future Means Investing In Robotics Software And Services
Monday, June 26, 2017 - 7:28am | 531Loup Ventures is siding with the machines, concluding on Friday a series of notes analyzing the growth of robotics in the economy. “We believe a cultural shift is underway and robots are playing an increasingly crucial role in our everyday lives,” said analyst Andrew Murphy. Murphy...
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Blue-Collar Workers Must Adapt To Survive
Tuesday, May 30, 2017 - 10:27am | 588As more and more parts of the economy become automated and human jobs are replaced by technology, it’s understandable that some workers are worried machines will eventually take over the entire blue-collar job market. Technology is cheaper, faster and potentially better at performing many...
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How Empathy Will Save Brick-And-Mortar Retail
Saturday, May 27, 2017 - 5:49pm | 756The death of brick-and-mortar retail is a well-worn topic. Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) is crushing. Online is the future. Yadda, yadda. But Loup Ventures analyst Andrew Murphy has a different perspective. “We don’t typically talk about the percentage [of] sales that happen offline,...
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Facebook's Big Push Into Augmented Reality
Friday, April 21, 2017 - 10:06am | 430With the launch of the 10th anniversary iPhone 8 just months away, Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) investors are anticipating the integration of new augmented reality technology into the landmark iPhone device. While the next step in AR will likely be integration with smart phones, Loup Ventures analyst...
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The 5 Senses Of Computing
Tuesday, March 21, 2017 - 12:13pm | 728While we are all familiar with the five senses — sight, smell, sound, taste and touch — the basic understanding of them are insufficient at the dawning of the new technological age. Thanks to Loup Ventures' Andrew Murphy, the five senses of computing — which build upon the...
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Apple's Airpods Are The First Mass Market 'Hearable'
Wednesday, March 15, 2017 - 10:45am | 527Airpods, the wireless headphones from Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL), are a step towards future of computing, according to Andrew Murphy of Loup Ventures. The wireless earbuds that went on sale in December are an instant hit. In fact, Apple has become an leader in the online wireless headphone market...
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How College Students Use Snapchat
Thursday, March 2, 2017 - 2:57pm | 400Loup Ventures, the venture capital firm co-founded by former Wall Street analyst Gene Munster, Doug Clinton and Andrew Murphy, hasn't shied away from commenting on Snap, Inc. (NYSE: SNAP). Murphy stated in a blog post his firm is a big fan of the direction Snap is heading in as it has...
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And The Oscar Goes To... Apple
Saturday, February 25, 2017 - 10:29am | 417Gene Munster, one of the Street's most notable Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) analysts, left his job at Piper Jaffray to co-found a venture capital firm called Loup Ventures with Doug Clinton and Andrew Murphy. Ahead of this weekend's 89th Oscars, Murphy penned a post titled "When will...