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Almost 20k apps Have Been Removed From the App Store
Total Apps Approved: 180534 Total Available Apps: 161262 In related news: the total number of apps on the Android Market is now almost 30,000. Sources: appshopper.com, androidlib.com
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So Long, Flash
A devastating exposé on the incompatibility of Flash content with touchscreens. Many (if not most) current Flash games, menus, and even video players require a visible mouse pointer. They are coded to rely on the…
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The Apple of Traders Eyes
Of all the world’s companies, Apple ranks as the 11th most valuable. As a technology company its market capitalization is second only to Microsoft. Of the top 20 largest companies, all of which are above $150 billion in…
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Apple’s Enterprise Value Peaked in 2007
On Christmas Eve 2007 to be precise. That’s when the Enterprise Value/share was $181.5. These days it’s around $150. The Enterprise Value (EV) measures the value of future cash flows excluding current assets and is a…
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What 140k Apps Look Like
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iPhone/App Store Now in 90 Countries
There are 193 recognized sovereign states, so they’re about half way there… App Store now supports Armenia, Botswana, Bulgaria, Jordan, Kenya, Macedonia, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritius, Niger, Senegal, Tunisia, and Uganda.…
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Apple Ten Times more Profitable than Dell
Apple’s profit of $3.38 billion for CQ4 was slightly more than 10 times bigger than Dell’s $334 million on nearly equal Revenues of 15.7 billion and 14.9 billion. In other words, Apple kept about 20% of its income while…
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Apple as Macroeconomic Counter-Indicator
Following up on the Apple Valuation Entry, I went to the data and pulled the historical P/E for Apple back to include all of 2004 (in blue) and did the same with the S&P P/E (in red). A few notes: This reversal happened…
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Windows Mobile renamed Windows Phone Classic
The mobile operating system formerly known as “Pocket PC 2000/2002, Pocket PC 2000/2002 Phone Edition, Smartphone 2002, Windows Mobile (2003/5.0) for Pocket PC, Windows Mobile (2003/SE/5.0) for Pocket PC Phone Edition,…
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Coming Soon: 1000 New Apps Per Day
According to 148apps.biz there are 823 apps being submitted to the app store every day for the month of February. If it’s maintained this will be a new record, beating the 821 apps per day for last December. This rate…