Author: Tim Frederick

Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC) is hoping to succeed where other companies have been unable to, and bring true fashion and style to wearable devices. The chipmaker has teamed up with Fossil Group Inc (NASDAQ:FOSL), a company that specializes in creating fashionable accessories, to fuse their style with Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC)’s wearable smart technology on future unannounced wearable products. News of the collaboration was detailed on Friday in a blog post by Intel’s corporate vice president and general manager of the New Devices Group, Michael A. Bell. If the wearables space still has one prime criticism levied against it, it is that…

Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOGL)’s Android Wear is no stranger to the slowly proliferating wearables industry. The mobile OS has appeared in Samsung’s Gear Live smartwatch (the Samsung-developed Tizen OS was used for the Gear S and Gear 2 smartwatches), as well as LG’s G Watch. Most recently it’s appearing in Motorola’s Moto 360 smartwatch, which according to The Verve in their review of the new device today, raises the smartwatch bar just ahead of Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL)’s expected iWatch reveal on Tuesday. Of the three smartwatches, the Moto 360 is the first to put Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOGL)’s Wear to work on…

Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) has had a busy day in Germany’s capital today, revealing three new Lumia smartphones, some new accessories, and a Lumia Denim update at an event in Berlin. Nokia provided all of the details in a blog post this morning, sharing the specifications and features of their new devices. Chief among the new smartphones is the flagship Lumia 830, which they boast as their thinnest and lightest Lumia phone yet at just 8.5mm wide and 150g. Powered by a 1.2 GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 processor, the 830 has a 10MP camera, a Curved Gorilla 3.0 glass touch…

Mobileye NV (NYSE:MBLY) had a rather bullish target placed on its back by Morgan Stanley after trading closed yesterday, a $100 price target for the autonomous automotive assistance technology company that entered the day at just $43.03. Unsurprisingly, the stock has soared on the positivity, now up more than 11% on the day to just over $48.00. As analyst Jim Cramer said today on CNBC, it’s one of those stocks that comes along now and then that just blows you away. “I got to tell you, sometimes you’re just blown away, there are stocks like a GoPro, like a Netflix,…

CVS Caremark Corporation (NYSE:CVS) announced back in February that they would cease their sale of tobacco products by October 1 of this year. Today it was revealed that the company is already tobacco-free nearly a month ahead of schedule, and proud of both their decision and accomplishment. CEO Larry Merlo was on CNBC today to discuss the announcement and direction of the newly named CVS Health. “We have many opportunities to play a bigger role in healthcare delivery and you know we have our 7,700 CVS pharmacies, we’ve got a leading pharmacy benefit management company, we have walk-in medical clinics…

Pandora Media Inc (NYSE:P) is coming off a strong fiscal second quarter, which ended on June 30, and CEO Mike Herring is confident the best of 2014 is yet to come for the streaming music service, the largest in the U.S. He spoke with Fox Business today about his company’s past, present, and future. “Business is great. I thought we had a great second quarter with the momentum building for the back half of the year. We’re 80% advertising driven from a revenue perspective, so it’s heavily weighted to the second half; and as we exited Q2, we had a…

Luxottica Group SpA (ADR) (NYSE:LUX) ‘s CEO Andrea Guerra stepped down from his position yesterday with the Italian eyewear maker, the largest in the world. The departure, which had been speculated for several weeks, came about due to differences in opinion on the future direction of the company between him and Luxottica Group SpA (ADR) (NYSE:LUX) founder, chairman, and principal shareholder Leonardo Del Vecchio. Guerra will be replaced by two new co-CEO’s, one of which has been confirmed as finance head Enrico Cavatorta (pictured). As CNBC reported today, the co-CEO’s are going to be in a rather precarious position given…

Honda Motor Co Ltd (ADR) (NYSE:HMC)’s method of globalization is one that other multinational companies should take cues from according to author Jeffery Rothfeder, who discussed today on CNBC his book “Driving Honda: Inside the World’s Most Innovative Car Company”, and the practices that Honda Motor Co Ltd (ADR) (NYSE:HMC) employs which bring them more success globally than most other multinational companies.   “[…]in every market it goes into, whether it’s Europe, the United States, China for example, they set up localized operations. They end up being run by local people, managed by local people, designs are done by local…

Tesla Motors Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA) is currently the darling of Wall Street, where its impressive technical achievements thus far, mixed with a perhaps overly optimistic future guidance by analysts, have propelled the electric car maker to a lofty valuation of over $32.5 billion. However, it all starts from Tesla Motors Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA)’s home base in Silicon Valley, where the electric cars are seen as status symbols and where the Model S was the best-selling vehicle of 2013 in the wealthy Bay Area towns of Atherton and Los Altos Hills. As Yahoo Finance reported today in a piece originally published by Bloomberg,…

Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ:NFLX) revealed in a press release yesterday that they filed a formal petition with the Federal Communications Commission on August 25 protesting the proposed merger between Time Warner Cable Inc (NYSE:TWC) and Comcast Corporation (NASDAQ:CMCSA), with the latter purchasing the former for $45 billion. Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ:NFLX) CEO Reed Hastings has been a vocal critic of the proposed merger since it was announced, and that position in made clear in the 256-page Petition to Deny filed with the FCC. Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ:NFLX)’s position is that the merger of the two companies would create a monopolistic giant with too…

Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) purchased the live streaming gaming website Twitch yesterday for $970 million in a move that has prompted mixed reactions among both analysts and Twitch users. The deal was discussed on Yahoo Finance this morning, with uncertainty over its motives and implications. “Twitch is important to Amazon because it opens up a new space for them. They obviously have been moving into this media space, this streaming space. This actually could put them somewhere closer to building up the capability for example to move into live television with the infrastructure that Twitch brings to them,” said Gina Sanchez…

Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ:EA) released a 3 ½ minute long Madden 15 video on August 15, which has now been viewed over 6.5 million times on Youtube. As CNBC reported today, the viral video hit is just one sign pointing towards a banner sales season for the newest installment of the legendary football franchise. The video, which has a certain Old Spice charm of randomness to it, stars comedian and actor Kevin Hart and actor Dave Franco, and has Hart taunting Franco leading up to the release of the game, eventually pushing Franco to the breaking point of getting his…