Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL ) may be the third major smartphone maker to receive approval from the U.S. Department of Defense for use in the Pentagon, but is in no way the least influential. While Cupertino may be playing catch-up in this single area to BlackBerry (NASDAQ: BBRY ) and Samsung -- the first smartphone maker to get approval for a Google (NASDAQ: GOOG ) Android device -- the company is well positioned on multiple levels. Now Nokia and the Microsoft Windows Phone operating system are the last major players not granted access.
In the video below, Fool.com contributor Doug Ehrman discusses the details of the Pentagon approval, what it means for the company, and what longer-term impact it might have.
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5 Best Tech Stocks For 2014: Tucows Inc Com Npv (TC.TO)
Tucows Inc. distributes Internet services worldwide. The company offers domain name registration, and security and identity products through digital certificates, email, and mobile telephony services. It provides OpenSRS, a wholesale service, which manages domain names, mailboxes, and digital certificates through a network of approximately 11,000 Web hosts, Internet service providers (ISPs), and other resellers; Platypus, a billing service that provides ISPs with an industry-specific solution for billing, service provisioning, and customer account management; and Hover, a retail service, which offers domain names, mailboxes, and digital certificates management services for consumers and small businesses. In addition, the company offers YummyNames that manages various domain names with a portfolio of approximately 42,000 domains; and Butterscotch, a content service, which operates butterscotch.com and tucows.com advertising-supported Websites that provide content in the for m of approximately 4,000 videos and 385,000 software and mobile listings, and articles. The company was formerly known as Infonautics, Inc. and changed its name to Tucows Inc. in August 2001. Tucows Inc. was founded in 1992 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.
5 Best Tech Stocks For 2014: ON Semiconductor Corporation(ONNN)
ON Semiconductor Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, designs, manufactures, and markets semiconductor components for electronic systems and products worldwide. The company provides computing and consumer products, including analog IC solutions for power management in VCORE, DDR, and chipsets for audio, video, and graphics processing subsystems; and AC-DC conversion solutions for the power supplies in computing and consumer applications. It also offers automotive-grade low-dropout (LDO) voltage regulators, drivers, and ignition IGBTs; mixed-signal custom application specific integrated circuits (ASICs) and automotive application specific standard products (ASSPs) for industrial, medical imaging, computing, and consumer applications; clock and timing management products for industrial, communications, and consumer applications; ASICs and ASSPs that are used in defibrillators, pacemakers, neurostimulators, hearing health applications, glucose meters and patient monit oring product; and standard-cell ASICs conversions for the military/aerospace, industrial, communications, computing, and consumer markets, as well as serial non-volatile memories (EEPROM) solutions for data parameter storage in a range of electronic products. In addition, the company provides standard products comprising diodes and transistors, configurable analog products, LED drivers, EEPROMs and power MOSFETs for consumer electronics, computing, wireless and wired communications, automotive electronics, industrial electronics, and medical markets. Further, it supplies analog and mixed signal integrated circuits, microcontrollers, DSPs, analog and digital tuners, intelligent power modules, memory, and discrete semiconductors for the consumer, industrial, and automotive markets. The company sells its products to original equipment manufacturers, distributors, and electronic manufacturing service providers. ON Semiconductor Corporation was founded in 1999 and is headquarter ed in Phoenix, Arizona.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By Rich Smith]
This series, brought to you by Yahoo! Finance, looks at which upgrades and downgrades make sense, and which ones investors should act on. Today, our headlines feature a downgrades for both Intel (NASDAQ: INTC ) and ON Semiconductor (NASDAQ: ONNN ) . But the news isn't all bad, so before we address those two, let's start on a bright note.
Top Warren Buffett Companies To Invest In 2014: Red Hat Inc.(RHT)
Red Hat, Inc. provides open source software solutions to enterprises worldwide. It also offers enterprise-ready open source operating system platforms. The company provides Red Hat Enterprise Linux, an operating system designed for enterprise computing; JBoss Enterprise Middleware that offers a suite of products for developing, deploying, integrating, and managing distributed, composite, and Web-based applications and services; and Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Servers, including Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor, a hypervisor based on KVM technology that converts the Red Hat Enterprise Linux kernel into a virtualization platform; and Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager, a server virtualization management system, which provide capabilities for host and guest operating systems, such as availability, live migration, power manager, storage manager, and system scheduler. It also offers other Red Hat enterprise technologies, which comprise Red Hat MRG t hat integrates open and scalable messaging; Red Hat Developer, which provides integrated development environments and support for application developers; and Red Hat Directory Server that centralizes application settings, user profiles, group data, policies, and access control information into a network-based registry. In addition, the company offers Red Hat systems management solutions, such as RHN, RHN Satellite, Red Hat Customer Portal, and JBoss ON; and infrastructure enterprise technologies, including software development tools, clustering of systems and services, and directory services. Further, it provides consulting, training, and support services. The company sells its enterprise technologies through subscriptions. It has strategic alliances with Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.; and Intel Corporation. The company was formerly known as Red Hat Software, Inc. and changed its name to Red Hat, Inc. in June 1999. Red Hat, Inc. was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Ral eigh, North Carolina.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By Jake L'Ecuyer]
Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) shares tumbled 11.51 percent to $46.84 after the company reported Q2 results. Piper Jaffray downgraded the stock from Overweight to Neutral.
- [By Lee Jackson]
Red Hat Inc. (NYSE: RHT) provides open source software solutions primarily to enterprise customers worldwide. With 15.4% earnings growth reported in its fiscal first quarter, sales are booming as its Jboss middleware business drives revenue. The consensus price target for this fast growing company is $58.
- [By Lu Wang]
Red Hat tumbled 12 percent, the most in the S&P 500, to $46.73. Billings, a predictor of future revenue, rose 8 percent in the second quarter from a year earlier to $376 million. Analysts (RHT) at CLSA had projected an increase of 17 percent, and Stifel Nicolaus & Co. predicted 14 percent growth.
- [By Keith Speights]
Intel joined forces in March with several other big companies -- Dell (NASDAQ: DELL ) , RedHat (NYSE: RHT ) , VMWare (NYSE: VMW ) , and Epic Systems. The companies, going by the acronym DRIVE, operate a facility near Epic's headquarters in Wisconsin that allows hospitals to test and deploy new software on Linux servers. Epic provides the software. Dell provides the servers -- with Intel inside, of course. Those servers use RedHat's Enterprise Linux operating system and VMWare's VSphere virtualization platform. The goal of this effort is to demonstrate to small and medium-sized hospitals that the solution involving the DRIVE companies is a cost-effective approach that meets their needs.�
5 Best Tech Stocks For 2014: VOIS Inc (VOIS)
VOIS Inc., incorporated on March 18, 2009, is a development-stage company. The Company is actively seeking opportunities to develop cloud-based services and develop products and services that will generate additional revenue, as well as seeking potential opportunities to acquire or merge with other companies that have product offerings that complement its business activities. On October 19, 2012, the Company completed the acquisition of Mind Solutions, Inc.
The Company was a social commerce Website designed to find and do business with buyers and sellers of on-demand work or manufacturing around the world. During the fiscal year ended September 30, 2012 (fiscal 2012), the Company had no revenue.
5 Best Tech Stocks For 2014: UniTek Global Services Inc.(UNTK)
UniTek Global Services, Inc. provides outsourced infrastructure and technical services to the wireless and wireline telecommunications, satellite television, and broadband cable industries in the United States and Canada. Its services include network engineering and design services for underground plant construction, aerial infrastructure, and multi-dwelling content delivery; and construction and project management services for the cable and wireline telecommunication industries, which comprise systems engineering, aerial and underground construction, regular maintenance of the distribution facilities and networks, emergency services for accidents or storm damage, routine replacements, and upgrades of network overhauls. The company?s services also include comprehensive installation and fulfillment services that comprise residential and commercial installation, warehousing/logistics, call centers, inventory management, customer service compliance, fleet management, and ris k and safety related services. In addition, it offers wireless telecommunication infrastructure services, which include communications infrastructure equipment construction and installation; radio frequency and network design, and engineering; radio transmission base station installation and modification; in-building network design, engineering, and construction; and site acquisition services. Further, the company provides systems integration services for communications projects for transportation, public safety, entertainment, hospitality, and enterprise-grade commercial real estate projects. UniTek Global Services, Inc. was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By Laura Brodbeck]
Wednesday
Earnings Expected From: Accretive Health, Inc (NYSE: AH), Monsanto Company (NYSE: MON), UniTek Global Services, Inc. (NASDAQ: UNTK) Economic Releases Expected: Eurozone interest rate decision and PPI data, US National Employment Report, British construction PMIThursday
- [By CRWE]
UniTek Global Services, Inc. (Nasdaq:UNTK), a premier provider of permanently outsourced infrastructure services to the telecommunications, broadband cable, wireless, two-way radio, transportation, public safety and satellite industries, reported that Chief Financial Officer and Co-Manager of the Interim Office of the CEO, Ronald J. Lejman, will present at the Credit Suisse Engineering & Construction Conference on Thursday, June 7th at 1:55 p.m. Eastern time.
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