The Gartner research group recently highlighted the top 10 technologies and trends that will be strategic for most organizations in 2011. Most of them affect Apple, mostly in a positive way. The top 10 technologies are:
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By ‘Doctor Dave’ Greenbaum
In the early days of Macintosh computing, the displays were black and white, the systems booted off a floppy, and the keyboards were noisy. That familiar “clickety-clack” of someone typing was as familiar as the whirring of the 3.5 inch floppy.
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Several senior Apple — including Betsy Rafael (controller), Jeffrey Williams (operations senior VP) and Bertrand Serlet (software engineering senior VP) — took advantage of the company’s recent record share prices to exercise some of the stock options they’ve been sitting on, reports “Fortune” (http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2010/10/26/bob-mansfields-10-million-payday/?cnn=yes).
Read MoreHere’s more fodder for the “what companies should Apple buy?” discussion. Gleacher & Co. analyst Brian Marshall, on CNBC’s “Fast Money,” said Apple should buy Netflix.
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By Greg Mills
The press is full of speculation as to what Apple might be into regarding the acquisitions department. Not many companies have over 50 billion dollars sitting around. While the income from the savings amounts to a lot even at a fairly low interest rate, Apple might make more in a sound investment in the form of buying the right companies.
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