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IBM (NYSE: IBM) released some Black Friday data that looks positive for Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), but other data from the report are less than encouraging for social media advertisers. First the good news. According to IBM, the amount of ordering that took place on mobile devices on Black Friday...

Sony (NYSE: SNE) and most manufacturers typically produce game consoles at a loss until, but PlayStation 4 may already be profitable. According to AllThingsD, which got an early look at the PlayStation 4 teardown from IHS (NYSE: IHS), Sony spends $381 on every unit. The console retails for $399,...

IBM's (NYSE: IBM) supercomputer, Watson, is evolving faster than many imagined. From game show contestant, to medical consultant, and soon, running an information booth on the Internet through what the company calls the Watson cloud service. Gizmodo reported Thursday that IBM announced Watson...

Investors are always looking for the “next big thing.” Business Insider, in a recent report, suggested the mobile health apps industry might be worth considering. Statistics support that notion with BI pointing out skyrocketing health care costs and the fact that health-related spending in the...

The timing couldn’t be worse—or maybe it couldn’t be better depending on who you ask but only a few days from its IPO, Twitter (NYSE: TWTR)  updated its S-1 filing with details that involved IBM (NYSE: IBM). Specifically, it disclosed that IBM is accusing it of three patent violations. “…we...

What if you could speak into your smartphone, describing your symptoms when you felt ill, and receive an accurate medical diagnosis that could help you decide whether what you had was as serious as a heart attack or more likely just heartburn? What if you could take a picture of a used car you...

The third-quarter earnings crunch is underway this week. The financial sector will be well represented, with quarterly reports due from the likes of Goldman Sachs and American Express, as well as the tech sector, highlighted by Google and Intel. Coca-Cola and Johnson & Johnson are among the...

When the CIA gave a $600 million cloud computing contract to Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) earlier this year, IBM (NYSE: IBM) appealed to the Government Accountability Office (GAO) – stating that Amazon Web Service’s (AWS) bid does not fall within the set criteria within the contract. While GAO stated...

Imagine a supercomputer so powerful it could absorb millions of bits of data including complete patient records, drug interactions, and past results. Imagine this machine, which understands natural language, could then generate hypotheses based on the data it had assimilated and that in fractions...

If you’re a PC user, or were in the past, you know of the head-scratching key combination you know as Control-Alt-Delete. In a recent comment, Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) co-founder Bill Gates called it a mistake. If you’ve moved on from a Windows-based system, maybe you forgot that control-alt-...

This weekend in Barron's online: managing health care expenses for the long term, as well as the prospects for GE, Nexstar Broadcasting, United Rentals, Approach Resources and more. Cover Story "How to Protect Your Health and Wealth" by Beverly Goodman. In this week's cover story in Barron's,...

Every year, analysts worry that Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) will disappoint investors with lackluster iPhone sales performance. Quarter after quarter, Apple has defied all but the loftiest expectations and reported positive sales growth. Based on the size of the crowd at the Apple Store at the Somerset...

Things are not going well at BlackBerry (NASDAQ: BBRY). Everybody knows that. The company is getting ready to cut its workforce by as much as 40 percent by the end of the year, according to The Wall Street Journal. As of March, BlackBerry had 12,700 employees. Under the worst-case scenario, by...

Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL), which holds its 2013 OpenWorld conference in San Francisco next week, is scheduled to report its fiscal first-quarter results Wednesday, September 18, after the markets close. Investors will be looking for some good news after two consecutive quarters of lackluster sales,...