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Amazon touches $1 trillion, on pace to overtake Apple

9/4/2018, 10:13:03 PM
Amazon.com Inc on Tuesday briefly joined Apple Inc to become the second $1 trillion publicly listed U.S. company after its stock price more than doubled in a year as it grew rapidly in retail and cloud computing. ✔ Slideshow (5 Images) Amazon’s a little bit more dynamic than Apple because the iPhone has become more mature ✔ Amazon’s cloud business is an extra growth driver that Apple doesn’t have, said Daniel Morgan, portfolio manager at Synovus Trust in Atlanta who describes Amazon’s cloud services as its crown jewel ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles



What We Think Apple Has In Store For the iPhone

9/4/2018, 8:40:19 PM
Embracing the notch. ✔ Be sure to visit IGN Tech for all the latest comprehensive hands-on reviews and best-of roundups ✔ This is a bit of a price reduction from last year's iPhone X, which launched at $999 for the 64GB model ✔ So Long Home Button All three models announced this year will reportedly ditch the home button entirely, opting instead for gesture based navigation



Apple chief Steve Jobs made tearful deathbed apology to daughter after snubbing her for TEN YEARS - and iPhone boss admitted 'I'm no good at communication'

9/4/2018, 8:36:48 PM
STEVE Jobs made a tearful deathbed apology to his estranged daughter – after snubbing her for TEN years. Just days before he succumbed to pancreatic cancer, the Apple founder wept to Lisa Bre… ✔ Lisa visited her dad about every other month for the year before his death aged 56 of complications from pancreatic cancer in 2011 ✔ He publicly denied he was her father until 1980, when the San Mateo district attorney forced him to take a paternity test and provide child support ✔ The tech giant was started in the garage of co-founder Jobs in 1976



Amazon is 2nd U.S. company to reach $1 trillion market value

9/4/2018, 10:26:38 PM
Amazon on Tuesday became the second publicly traded company to reach $1 trillion in market value, hot on the heels of iPhone maker Apple. The milestone is another sign of Amazon's swift rise from an online bookseller to a behemoth that sells toilet paper, TVs and just about anything. In… ✔ He called Amazon the Earth's biggest bookstore at the time, but it quickly added more products and eventually opened up a marketplace where others could list and sell their goods ✔ This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.



Apple’s Big Day to Bring New iPhones, Market Share, Report Predicts

9/4/2018, 8:40:29 PM
As Apple preps for its biggest day of the year next week, at least one Wall Street firm has raised its price target on the company's stock in anticipation of the launch of three new iPhones. ✔ As Apple (AAPL) preps for its biggest day of the year next week, at least one Wall Street firm has raised its price target on the company's stock in anticipation of the launch of three new iPhones ✔ Walkley expects Apple to offer two new OLED-screen iPhones and a more affordable LCD iPhone on Sept



Samsung plans to show off phone with foldable screen this year

9/4/2018, 8:20:44 PM
Samsung's been promising a folding phone's in the works for years. We may actually see it before 2018 is done. ✔ The company has used flexible screens, which wrap around the edges of its phones, for years ✔ Still, sales numbers aren't growing as quickly on the high end as they did even a few years ago ✔ Sales of its new Galaxy S9 line were lower than expected last quarter, and the company in July reported a 22 percent drop in revenue for its second quarter



Cramer: Amazon's $1 trillion landmark is about more than just the company

9/4/2018, 10:17:47 PM
Jim Cramer says Amazon's growth and investor base helped propel the e-commerce giant to a $1 trillion market cap. ✔ Amazon's a secular growth company that spends a fortune to expand its business; they could turn off that spending tomorrow and show much higher earnings-per-share numbers, Cramer said ✔ Hit him up! Mad Money Twitter - Jim Cramer Twitter - Facebook - Instagram - Vine Questions, comments, suggestions for the Mad Money website



Stocks kick off September with a loss as Nike shares weigh on Dow; Amazon briefly touches $1 trillion

9/4/2018, 8:15:27 PM
undefined ✔ NKE, -3.16% providing the stiffest headwind for the blue-chip gauge ✔ Nike's stock drew outsize attention on the day amid a new ad campaign that features Colin Kaepernick, the NFL quarterback who led player protests against racial injustice and police brutality during the national anthem ✔ AAPL, +0.32% as the only two publicly traded firms to touch a market-value milestone above $1 trillion



Limits to innovation – how far can smartphone design evolve

9/4/2018, 8:42:54 PM
The big-screen phone is dominant, but what comes next? ✔ The question is how new ways to use mobile devices fit into the surrounding culture, or how the culture will adapt to these new ways ✔ From a technology point of view, it is not hard to envision a fully non-physical UI in the near future ✔ TechRadar's Next Up series is brought to you in association with Honor



Little evidence of capex surge from tax cuts: Fed

9/4/2018, 8:16:27 PM
Major U.S. corporations bringing home cash from abroad, thanks to President Donald Trump's tax overhaul, have boosted share buybacks but there is little evidence they are reinvesting much of that money to expand, according to the U.S. Federal Reserve. ✔ Apple Inc (AAPL.O) snapped up a record $43 billion of its stock in the first six months of 2018, exceeding the stock market value of almost three-quarters of the companies in the S&P 500 and helping push its stock market value above $1 trillion last month



Facebook, Nike drag Wall Street lower; trade concerns linger

9/4/2018, 8:58:24 PM
U.S. stocks fell on Tuesday as trade concerns lingered and declines in Facebook and Nike shares weighed on Wall Street's major indexes, though data showing U.S. manufacturing activity accelerated in August kept losses in check. ✔ Amazon ended the session up 1.3 percent to $2,039.51 ✔ The Dow Jones Industrial Average .DJI fell 12.34 points, or 0.05 percent, to 25,952.48, the S&P 500 .SPX lost 4.8 points, or 0.17 percent, to 2,896.72 and the Nasdaq Composite .IXIC dropped 18.29 points, or 0.23 percent, to 8,091.25 ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles



31 Things That Basically Give You No Choice But To Have Better Skin

9/4/2018, 8:58:19 PM
Because sometimes we have to play tough with breakouts — but like in a super nice way to our skin. ✔ Learn all about these bad boys from a BuzzFeeder's closer look! 17 ✔ And be sure to check out our top picks for all things beauty (that we tried and tested ourselves) on BuzzFeed Reviews! More BuzzFeed Reviews More BuzzFeed Reviews



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