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Mid-day Update

PODCAST: Is Apple the new Microsoft?

Molly Wood Apr 23, 2014
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Mid-day Update

PODCAST: Is Apple the new Microsoft?

Molly Wood Apr 23, 2014
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Apple is expected to report mostly flat revenues from a year ago, when it releases earnings after the bell Wednesday. It wasn’t so long ago, of course, that Apple’s stock was a rocket ship, seeing the kind of exponential growth you find in tiny startups. Another tech company used to be like that: Microsoft. 

David Einhorn, a pretty big name among activist investors, made headlines yesterday with his “bubble basket” and for saying that there’s now a consensus that there’s a tech bubble.

Hollywood is no longer the go-to place for shooting feature films and TV showsJust eight percent of big budget Hollywood films were made in LA in 2013, down from 65 percent in 1997. And from 2005 to 2013, California’s share of one-hour TV series dropped from 64 percent to 28 percent. 

 

 

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