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Yesterday's announcement of the AT&T (T) and T-Mobile deal gives both companies a clear "win" in the telecommunications sector. Who are the "losers"?

The tower companies have experienced downward pressure today, with American Tower (AMT) currently trading down over 8%, SBA Communications (SBAC) currently down over 10%, and Crown Castle International (CCI) currently hovering down almost 5%.

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China plans to stockpile rare earth metals, according to The Wall Street Journal. While these plans haven't been made public, the WSJ reported Monday the efforts have emerged from recent statements. Rare earth metals are comprised of 17 elements, used in the manufacture of laser guided weapons and hybrid car batteries.

Last year, China imposed an export ban on rare earths. This new move is going a step further. The ensuing shortage of these metals will increase production costs on a variety of industries including cellphones, oil refining and high technology batteries.

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Integrated circuit and systems software solution provider Qualcomm Inc.'s (QCOM) business model is gaining favor in investor circles, and is worth a review.

Typically, a stock trading just over $50 would be viewed as having registered much of its capturable gains. Not so with QCOM. Qualcomm has the right products at the right time: the smartphone segment, aided by the 3G internet, is on fire, which has resulted in record model station modem (msm) chipset shipments.

Qualcomm boasts an impressive patent portfolio of several, next-generation, high-speed wireless technologies, which bodes well for continued strong chipset sales and royalties. A 15-year royalty agreement with Nokia Corporation (NOK), signed in 2008, provides some revenue stability.

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Qualcomm: Superior Smartphone/Mobile Trend Play originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Mon, 31 Jan 2011 17:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The markets might have been pulled down as shares of Citigroup, Inc. (C) the most widely traded stock in the US fell over 5% to $4.62. The drop was a problem for Citi which is trying to get its shares over $5. Many institutions cannot buy shares at level below that.

Other financial stocks drifted down modestly in concert with Citi. Goldman Sachs (GS), under increasing pressure from an SEC investigation, dropped 5% to $151. Wall St. is betting against a good outcome in the legal battle.

Today's closing bell numbers:

Dow 11,205.03 +0.75 (0.01%)
Nasdaq 2,522.95 -7.20 (-0.28%)
S&P 500 1,212.05 -5.23 (-0.43%)

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Google Inc. (GOOG) realizes that the mobile market is a must-win proposition. To this end, the company has been aggressive with M&A -- such as its $750 million acquisition for AdMob -- as well as technologies, like Android, and a high-end handset, Nexus One.

Another disruptive move was to make GPS navigation free. Obviously, this was a major jolt to the industry as billions of dollars in market values got vaporized.

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Verizon Communications' (NYSE: VZ) shares have pulled-back from a high above $32 registered earlier this year, but you can view this move lower as a way to establish or to add to a VZ position, which is I'm reiterating my Buy rating for the company, first recommended on February 12, 2009 at a price of $29.86.

Verizon, which boasts 6 million landline subscribers, is still viewed by institutional investors as more old economy than new economy -- this despite being the largest wireless carrier in the U.S. with about 88 million wireless subscribers. Further, VZ's FiOS broadband service continues to exceed expectations, and the company's recently raised dividend adds to the positive mix: not bad, for a 'stodgy' old company.

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Verizon: It's hard to beat modest growth with safety originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:20:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Apple hits 2 billion downloadsApple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) hit another big milestone today, announcing that its App Store had hit 2 billion total downloads.

The number is pretty impressive to say the least, and will continue to rise at a rapid pace. Apple now has 85,000 applications available for download, and its services are currently being offered in 77 different countries. That number is up from the 65,000 applications that were available this past July.

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Verizon Second Quarter 2009 EarningsThe only DOW component reporting earnings this morning is Verizon Communications (NYSE: VZ). The nation's largest wireless carrier reported second quarter numbers that fell inline with analyst estimates.

Going into this morning's earnings report, analysts polled by Thompson Financial expected Verizon to earn 63 cents per share. Excluding merger and various one-time labor costs, Verizon was able to match that number.

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As global markets improve, we are now seeing renewed interested in M&A. Interestingly enough, it looks like a $23 billion deal is brewing between cell phone operators Bharti Airtel Ltd. -- the largest in India -- and South Africa-based MTN Group Ltd., according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.

Actually, Bharti-MTN already tried to put a deal together -- about a year ago. But things fell apart based on factors like valuation and control.

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Bharti and MTN: Ready for a $23 billion deal? originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Tue, 26 May 2009 08:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Yesterday we ran an earnings preview on mobile device maker Motorola (NYSE: MOT) and asked if the company would be able to break even for its fourth quarter. The answer is no, and shares are trading sharply lower in reaction to the company's weak earnings report.

Excluding items, the company lost a penny a share, which was weaker than the break even quarter that analysts had been hoping to see. For comparison purposes, the company was able to earn a positive 5 cents a share for the same period last year.

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Motorola (MOT) shares fall on poor earnings originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Tue, 03 Feb 2009 11:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Before the market opens tomorrow, mobile device maker Motorola (NYSE: MOT) is going to be announcing its fourth quarter numbers, and analysts are expecting to see a break even quarter from the struggling company.

Despite being one of the best known makers of cell phones, Motorola has had a tough couple of years, and has been losing its market share at an alarming rate. In 2007, the company remained the number two maker of cell phones, but 2008 was tough on the company, which now finds itself down in fifth place in market share.

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Earnings preview: Can Motorola (MOT) break even? originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Mon, 02 Feb 2009 15:44:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Dropped calls have been a nuisance since the dawn of cell phones. But which cellular service provider has the best record in terms of the fewest dropped calls?

In a recent survey, ChangeWave asked 3,800 cell phone owners to estimate the percentage of their calls that were dropped during the past 90 days.

The survey, which was conducted Dec. 9-15, 2008, produced a clear winner: Verizon (NYSE: VZ) has the fewest dropped calls of all.

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Which cell phone carrier has the fewest dropped calls? originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Wed, 14 Jan 2009 17:40:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Qualcomm, Inc. (NASDAQ: QCOM), a famous name in the wireless industry whose colleagues include Broadcom Corporation (NASDAQ: BRCM), Texas Instruments Incorporated (NYSE: TXN), and Nokia Corporation (NYSE: NOK), reported earnings for the fourth quarter on Thursday. While the stock may be up today, I'm not so sure I'd be a buyer of it.

It's not that the bottom-line numbers were wholly bad. Net profit rose 16% to roughly $1.1 billion. Earnings per diluted share on an adjusted basis increased 17% to $0.63. According this news source, that figure beat estimates by three pennies. That's all well and good, but that news source also states that Qualcomm is guiding below consensus. Not surprising, certainly, given what the markets are going through. But it still puts a damper on the stock's near-term potential, in my opinion. Plus, free cash flow was down 13% during the quarter, and it was flat for the twelve-month period.

Except for certain companies like Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT), I'm not really interested in playing the tech sector. If you had purchased Qualcomm near its 52-week low of $30.87, I'd be a seller into today's strength. No, I certainly can't predict the movement of stock prices, but I can tell you that I think Qualcomm could easily pull back from today's rally. The recession is going to worsen, and I don't think we've reached the point where the market will begin to discount better days. In fact, we're probably far off from that point. The rally that is going on in the markets as I write this (and by the time this gets published, it could be gone for all I know) feels like a dead-cat bounce. That wouldn't be good for Qualcomm's stock, I'd imagine. So, kudos to management for beating Q4 expectations. But I won't be rewarding you by buying your stock. Sorry!

Disclosure: I don't own any company mentioned; positions can change at any time.

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Motorola Inc. (NYSE: MOT) is like the guy who was cool in high school and still tries to impress girls at the football game when he's 30.

The once-cutting edge technology company reported dismal third quarter results. The results were not as wretched as Wall Street had expected but they stunk nonetheless. Motorola's net loss was $397 million, or 18 cents a share, compared with $60 million, or 3 cents, a year earlier. Sales plunged 15% to $7.48 billion. Excluding costs to fire people, profit was 5 cents a share, beating the 2-cent average estimate of analysts polled by Bloomberg News. The revenue figure trailed the $7.82 billion Bloomberg estimate.

But neither the results nor the company's statement that it has exceeded its goal of cutting $1 billion in costs impressed investors who sent shares of the Schaumberg, Illinois-based company tumbling in early morning trading today. The company's plans to separate its headset business from the part that actually makes money is on hold. For how long, it's not clear.

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Motorola continues to head into the abyss originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Thu, 30 Oct 2008 12:12:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Going into this afternoon's earnings announcement, analysts had been expecting the company to earn $1.11 a share, but the company shattered that estimate with a reported $1.26 per share, accompanied with a revenue jump of 27% to $7.9 billion.

Most of the attention that Apple has received over the past six months has surrounded its upgraded iPhone, the iPhone 3G. During the quarter, iPhone shipments shot through the roof, rising six times to 6.9 million units.

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Apple (AAPL) soars on iPhone sales originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Tue, 21 Oct 2008 19:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Research in Motion Limited (USA) (NASDAQ: RIMM) announced today the launch of a new touch screen BlackBerry, which will go under the name of the Storm 3G.

The move comes as the company tries to make another big step in gaining market share in the consumer segment. For most of the BlackBerry's existence, the phone has been regarded as mainly a device for professionals, but RIMM has been trying to break that reputation, and is banking on the fact that its newest touch screen will help move the company in that direction.

All of the major mobile phone makers have been scrambling to keep up with the mania that Apple, Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) created last year when it released its iPhone, and then again this year when that mania spiked once more with the release of the upgraded iPhone 3G.

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Motorola Inc. (NYSE: MOT) just can't seem to find a sliver of good news to hang on to these days. The cellphone manufacturer based outside of Chicago saw its shares hit a five-year low this week as the outlook for its cellphone division continues to worsen. The company is in the midst of preparing to spin off the division to rid itself of that baggage. It's a sad state when that "baggage" is what defines Motorola.

Motorola contract manufacturer FoxConn had some cautious words to say this week as well, which probably helped propel Motorola's shares downward to $7.61, a level not seen since May 2003. After losing $194 million in the first quarter alone, it's just bewildering to see how such a great company completely lost its way, financially speaking.

It's not getting any better. The company's product launches have been described as a "half-baked mess" and it can't seem to find a knack for the cellphone handset design that it made so famous years ago with the RAZR. Motorola certainly isn't a one-hit wonder, but in the brutal cellphone market you need a hit every year to stay at the top of your game. Korean giant Samsung Electronics passed Motorola by in 2007 to become the world's second-largest cellphone manufacturer by having a whole host of cellphone designs available to almost every wireless carrier in the world. That's just for starters, but for Motorola, it seems to be an impossible goal at the moment.

Motorola (MOT) shares slide down to a five-year low originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Fri, 20 Jun 2008 10:22:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Motorola (NYSE: MOT) is getting close to picking a CEO for its handset division. The operation is going to be spun-out next year. Its worldwide share of the cell phone business has fallen from 22% to about 10% over the last two years.

The CEO search may be one of those odd situations where a chimpanzee may be as good as a man.

According to The Wall Street Journal, "Chief Executive Greg Brown is desperate to find a manager to turn around Motorola's mobile-devices division, which has lost $1.6 billion since January 2007, when its hit Razr phone ran out of steam." But, can new management do what two previous generations of managers at Motorola could not do? The company has been effectively flanked by the world's largest handset company, Nokia (NYSE: NOK), along with Samsung and Sony Ericsson. Getting back any market share may be hard for Motorola.

The spin-off also raises the issue of how the new unit will find capital. It will need at least $2 billion to $3 billion in cash. For a failing company, that may be hard to come by.

Motorola now trades at $9. Its enterprise and home electronics divisions could be worth as much as its $20 billion market cap. That leaves the handset unit with a value of zero.

Douglas A. McIntyre is an editor at 247wallst.com and the author of the Ten Stocks Under $10 newsletter.

Motorola (MOT) looks for new handset CEO, captain of the Titanic originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Wed, 04 Jun 2008 09:26:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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As cell phone usage continues to spread, more and more Americans are rarely, if ever, talking on landlines anymore. According to a new study, 3 out of 10 homes in the country are virtually completely relying on cell phones.

Cell phones are definitely more convenient, and the more we use them, the more we want to put the days of landlines in our past. According to the study, 16 percent of all homes in the country did not even have a landline installed during the second half of last year.

In addition to the 16 percent of homes that did not even have a landline, 13% of homes in the country had landlines, but reportedly never use them. For the most part, these lines are used exclusively for computers, or to have in the case of an emergency. Whenever you need to call an emergency service number it is advisable to use a landline, because it makes it much easier to identify your location.

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Last night, handset maker Motorola Inc. (NYSE: MOT) announced that it would be slashing another 2,600 jobs as the company continues to battle lower sales. The current job cuts represent approximately 4% of its total job force as of the end of 2007 of 66,000 employees.

It wasn't that long ago that Motorola was a major force in the world of mobile phones, but over the past two years the company has definitely fallen from grace among consumers. Two years ago the company was the world's second largest handset maker, but that status is no more, and the company is currently sitting in the fourth spot overall.

Analysts have blamed the company's drop due to lack of innovation, and some have gone so far as to predict that the company's handset business is doomed if Motorola can not pick up the pace and start to pump out new and fresh ideas for consumers to gobble up.

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