Apple was in the news today mainly because of Steve Jobs' other job, Pixar, which got a nice write up from the Wall Street Journal . That patent has been widely criticized as being frivolous and will likely be overturned at some point. Speaking of Amazon, the company can't catch a break of late. Harshly criticized for years for not turning a profit, the company is now being harshly criticized for declaring they would be turn a profit in one year. It seems that now, the clear advice from the sidelines is to continue to go for market share in the online retailing space.
Analysts are whacky.
Apple is a large shareholder of Akamai. Motorola gained three pennies after canceling the IPO of its wireless division , which is called Propel. Dell posted a strong gain in advance of their earnings report was announced after the bell. The stock is likely to give ground tomorrow as that report was considered disappointing. Hewlett Packard also posted results after the bell, and HP too gained in advance of that report.