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’An Apple a day…
… puts a rocket under your share price.
To recap, Apple’s third quarter results (published late on Tuesday) smashed expectation with both iPhone’s and iPad’s sales growing at an exceptional rate.
Apple to give Arm the elbow?
ARM Holdings was underperforming the market on Tuesday afternoon, as rumours of a tie-up between Apple and Intel did the rounds.
The story can be sourced to Citigroup analyst Glen Yueng, who reckons a foundry relationship might be formed between Apple and Intel.
ARM moves closer to PC market
The FTSE 100 has regained its composure after Tuesday’s wobble and leading the market higher is ARM Holdings.
Now, shares in the chip designer rose 5 per cent in the US overnight after tech blog Engadget showed a demo of the next version of Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE10).
Intel builds a $9bn deathstar to kill the rebels
Perhaps Jim ‘Mad Money’ Cramer is right and chip designer Arm Holdings really is significantly undervalued.
In the wake of Intel’s forecast-busting earnings overnight, shares in the Cambridge-based company charged to their highest level in a decade on Friday:
Arm and Mad Money [updated]
Arm Holdings is in the charge again on Tuesday morning:
And the reason for this move? Traders reckon it could be the following…
Overnight CNBC’s Jim ‘Mad Money’ Cramer told viewers of his show that the Cambridge-based chip designer,
(H)ARMless bid rumours
It seems somebody doesn’t believe Apple, Intel, Samsung or some other big company is going to launch a cash offer for the UK chip designer.
That somebody is actually several Arm executives and a handful of non-executive directors who have just declared the sale of around 725,000 shares.
HP heads back unto the (M&A) breach
Ho hum. Another day, another Hewlett-Packard bid…
The acquisitive US tech giant is nearing a deal to buy US security software maker ArcSight, fresh from its $2.35bn victory in a bidding war against Dell for data storage company 3Par,
M&A groundhog day: but could it all end in tears?
Was it really only two months ago that we were seeing headlines like this:”M&A activity slack in spite of renewed appetite”, and reading columns like this, by the FT’s M&A reporter Lina Saigol,
August in ‘busy’ shocker for global M&A
It’s beginning to look as if Credit Suisse were right about the upcoming rise of global M&A they recently predicted, though perhaps even they couldn’t have guessed how quickly it would come.
This is August,
Federal Trade Commission accuses Intel of not playing well with others [UPDATED]
Intel has had something of a rough 2009.
In November, New York attorney general Andrew Cuomo accused the chipmaker of “violating state and federal anti-monopoly laws by engaging in a worldwide, systematic campaign of illegal conduct”.
Intel settles antitrust AMD case
Intel sought to quell rising complaints over its business practices as it agreed on Thursday to pay $1.25bn to settle a private antitrust lawsuit from rival chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices, ending one of the longest disagreements in US business.
CDS report: Investors’ risk appetite on the wane
Gavan Nolan of Markit wrote this CDS report
European credit indices widened today as the appetite for risky assets showed tentative signs of waning. The Markit iTraxx Europe index widened 1bp to 84bp,
AMD and Intel kiss and make-up
FT Alphaville did not see this coming: AMD and Intel on Thursday declared the end of one of the longest-running and bitterest spats in the technology sector (see also: Apple v Microsoft, Yahoo v Google,
Intel hit with bribery allegation
New York’s attorney-general on Wednesday alleged that Intel, the world’s biggest chipmaker, had used “bribery and coercion” to maintain its dominant market position after a nearly two-year probe into the Silicon Valley company.
Cuomo files antitrust lawsuit against Intel (UPDATED)
New York attorney general Andrew Cuomo filed a federal antitrust lawsuit against Intel on Wednesday. The suit comes after an investigation into the world’s largest chipmaker that started in January 2008.
[Galleon] Galleon rat report
Okay, okay, that’s just a lame little joke.
Call ‘em what you will — stoolies, narks, informer, a grass, co-operative witnesses. Either way, FT Alphaville does not condone illegal activity in any form.
[Galleon] “Put ya money on Galleon!” – Rajaratnam’s rap sheet
Few things in life can further pulverise an already bloodied reputation like a comedy rap song.
Several years before Raj Rajaratnam attracted the attention of the Feds, the billionaire hedge fund manager came up with the idea of commissioning a promotional hip hop ditty to lure in investors.
CDS report: US banks tighter after JPMorgan results
Gavan Nolan of Markit wrote this CDS report
European credit and equity markets rallied today as the US earnings season continued its strong start. The Markit iTraxx Europe index tightened by 6bp (6.8%) to 81bp,
Intel reports a Q2 pick up
Intel, the world’s biggest chipmaker, reported its strongest pick up in business in more than 20 years, giving a major lift to the PC industry and technology sector on Tuesday. The company reported second-quarter revenues of $8bn,
Brussels fines Intel record $1.4bn
Intel, the world’s largest chipmaker, has been fined a record €1.06bn ($1.44bn) by Europe’s competition authorities for abusing its dominant market position and using illegal sales practices to encourage computer manufacturers to carry its micro-processor chips.
Intel braced for record EU fine
Intel, the world’s biggest chipmaker by sales, is bracing itself for one of the heaviest penalties levied in Europe for anti-competitive behaviour after a near-decade long probe into the group’s marketing practices.
Intel warns of deteriorating market
Intel on Thursday warned of rapidly deteriorating margins as its production lines ran on reduced capacity. The world’s biggest chipmaker kicked off what is certain to be a grim earnings season for tech companies by reporting a 90% fall in profits and a drop in revenues it said was unprecedented in the past 20 years.
Intel warns second time on revenues
Intel, the world’s largest chipmaker, on Wednesday warned on its fourth-quarter sales for a second time due to further erosion further erosion of demand resulting from the global downturn. The company
Intel issues shock revenue warning
Intel on Wednesday shocked Wall Street with a revenue and margins warning that indicated a rapid decline in the business of the world’s largest chipmaker over the past month. Intel, a bellwether for the technology industry,
Intel slides as profits and sales miss targets
Intel, the world’s biggest chipmaker, disappointed Wall Street on Tuesday with Q4 profits and sales below expectations and a cautious outlook for 2008. The company blamed problems in its non-core memory chip business for exerting a drag on its results.