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Let’s start with the disclaimer that I own Intel Stock. After this acquisition, which I will try to fathom as I write this post, the stock is back down below the dismal level I bought it at. When I bought the stock it was with the thinking that “it can’t go lower than this” and [...]

I logged in to my Blockbuster account today and saw this:

Blockbuster is really throwing everything and the kitchen sink to compete with Netflix and Redbox. But nothing seems to be working to keep the company alive. I’m not sure why they don’t throw in free streaming like Netflix too.
Total Access (exchanging disks in store), no [...]

As the market tumbles and the Dow continues to stay under 10,000, a big question is what should we buy now as a replacement for the AAPL we sold. The stock market is tumbling and I want some safe havens to park the money forever or at least until I feel like getting back into [...]

I acquired AAPL stock at prices ranging from $120 to $205. I had a sell order for about a third of my holdings at $250 but as the stock rose, I raised that to $275 and as the stock approaches that value after 600,000 iPhone 4 sales on day 1, I want to raise that [...]

I’ve been following all the liveblogs online and have everything investors need to know about the new iPhone.
So far the most significant thing about the iPhone itself that we didn’t know since the  leaked iPhone is that it has a gyroscope. That will make the iPhone the leading development platform for mobile gaming until someone [...]

AT&T has ended unlimited data pricing on all devices including the iPad. The $30 unlimited plan has been replaced by the options of $15 for 200MB or $25 for 2GB. This may be good for AT&T in the short term but this is a long term negative for the consumer as data consumption is only [...]

On Friday rates dropped to 4.5% for FHA loans and 4.625 for Conventional with 0 points from many lenders as long as you had good credit. However working with lenders is painful. I found lenders from interest.com (owned by bankrate) and I started calling the ones with lowest fees. I actually started on Thursday when [...]

I’m glad that somebody bought PALM finally! I own no stock in either PALM, Inc. (PALM) or Hewlett Packard Company (HPQ) but I didn’t want to see WebOS die. I don’t own a WebOS phone but it was a strong contender to be my next phone. Of course my hope was that HTC would take [...]

Thanks to it’s meteoric rise in the last year, Apple is now Parchayi and my largest single investment. I was considering taking some profits when it crossed $250, which it did today after the monster quarter of nearly doubling earnings to $3.1 billion ($3.33/share) from 1.6 billion ($1.79/share) same Q last year on a 50% [...]

Two stocks to watch today are Google and Intuitive Surgical (other than Goldman Sachs after the fraud accusation).
Intuitive Surgical reported spectacular results today far ahead of analyst expectations with earnings coming in at $2.12 per share compared to the expected $1.69. Intuitive has beaten expectations in 6 out of the last 8 quarters and [...]