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Top Tech Stocks To Buy For 2014: Linktone Ltd.(LTON)
Linktone Ltd., through its subsidiaries, provides entertainment-oriented telecom value-added services and content to mobile phone users over mobile telecommunications networks in China and Indonesia, as well as the 3G mobile telecommunications network in Indonesia. The company specializes in the development, aggregation, marketing, and distribution of user wireless content and applications for access by mobile phone users through three mobile network operators in China and nine mobile network operators in Indonesia. Its 2G short messaging service (SMS)-based services include ringtones, icons and screen savers, interactive SMS messaging in certain television programs, adventure, action, trivia and fortune-telling games, lunar and Western horoscopes, jokes, fan clubs, and event-driven or entertainment news updates. The company?s 2.5G services comprise multimedia messaging services, such as animated cartoons and screensavers, comic strips, magazine-style ?mobile articles? on various topics, and event-driven news updates; and WAP services, which consist of WAP-based ringtones, screensavers, games and dating services, and advanced Java games. It also offers audio-related services, including color ring-back tones; and interactive voice response services that allow users to listen to songs, jokes, stories, and coverage of various events. In addition, Linktone is launching 3G services in Indonesia, including e-paper/e-reading; video-on-demand on tablet devices and smart TVs; and radio streaming on mobile applications. Further, it distributes and sells home entertainment products, such as VCDs/DVDs/Blu-ray discs and video-on-demand in Singapore, Malaysia, and Indonesia; and engages in the theatrical distribution of movies, karaoke video licensing, karaoke system rental, and providing a karaoke-on-demand channel on Pay TV platforms. The company was founded in 1999 and is based in Shanghai, China. Linktone Ltd. is a subsidiary of MNC International Li mited.
Top Tech Stocks To Buy For 2014: Liquidity Services Inc.(LQDT)
Liquidity Services, Inc. operates various online auction marketplaces for surplus and salvage assets in the United States. Its auction marketplaces include liquidation.com, which enables corporations and selected government agencies located in the United States to sell surplus and salvage consumer goods and capital assets; govliquidation.com that enables government agencies to sell surplus and scrap assets; govdeals.com, which enables local and state government entities, including city, county, and state agencies, as well as school boards and public utilities located in the United States to sell surplus and salvage assets. The company also operates secondipity.com that provides consumers a source of products and a socially conscious online experience through donating a portion of the proceeds of every sale to charity; and truckcenter.com, a marketplace for the sale of idle, surplus, and used fleet and transportation equipment. Its marketplaces provide professional buyers a ccess to supply of surplus and salvage assets presented with customer focused information, including digital images and other relevant product information along with services to complete the transaction; and enable corporate and government sellers to enhance their financial return on excess assets by providing liquid marketplaces and value-added services that integrate sales and marketing, logistics, and transaction settlement. The company offers approximately 500 products organized into various categories, including consumer electronics, general merchandise, apparel, scientific equipment, aerospace parts and equipment, technology hardware, energy equipment, industrial capital assets, fleet and transportation equipment, and specialty equipment. Liquidity Services, Inc. was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Washington, District of Columbia.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By Rich Smith]
Liquidity Services is drying up
Shares of surplus, scrap, and salvage merchandise liquidator Liquidity Services (NASDAQ: LQDT ) are getting vaporized Monday, down nearly 4% as of this writing. For this, you can (at least partly)�blame analysts at the Benchmark Company, who cut their price target on Liquidity to $47. - [By Chuck Carnevale]
Liquidity Services Inc. (LQDT)
Our final example of fast growth looks at Liquidity Services Inc. Although somewhat cyclical, we see that stock prices have tracked earnings growth very closely. Moreover, we see that the market has typically applied a fair value PE ratio that equates very closely with the company�� earnings growth rate, thereby providing additional evidence of the validity of the PE equals growth rate valuation concept applies to fast growth above 15%.
Top Companies To Own For 2014: Hewlett-Packard Company(HPQ)
Hewlett-Packard Company and its subsidiaries provide products, technologies, software, solutions, and services to individual consumers and small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), as well as to the government, health, and education sectors worldwide. Its Personal Systems Group segment offers commercial personal computers (PCs), consumer PCs, workstations, calculators and other related accessories, and software and services for the commercial and consumer markets. The company?s Services segment provides consulting, outsourcing, and technology services to infrastructure, applications, and business process domains. Its Imaging and Printing Group segment provides consumer and commercial printer hardware, supplies, media, and scanning devices, such as inkjet and Web solutions, laser jet and enterprise solutions, managed enterprise solutions, graphics solutions, and printer supplies. The company?s Enterprise Servers, Storage, and Networking segment offers industry standard s ervers, business critical systems, storage platforms, and networking products, including switches, routers, wireless LAN, and TippingPoint network security products. Its HP Software segment provides enterprise IT management software, information management solutions, and security intelligence/risk management solutions. The company?s HP Financial Services segment offers leasing, financing, utility programs, and asset recovery services; and financial asset management services for enterprise customers, as well as specialized financial services to SMBs, and educational and governmental entities. Hewlett-Packard Company also provides business intelligence solutions that enable businesses to standardize on consistent data management schemes, connect and share data across the enterprise, and apply analytics, as well as licenses its specific technology to third parties. The company was founded in 1939 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By John Divine]
Battling conflicting indicators, the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES: ^DJI ) slipped 12 points, or less than 0.1%, to close at 15,294 today. Down 120 points at one point in early trading, Wall Street struggled to come to terms with a decline in Chinese factory output. However, when U.S. new home sales in April rose by nearly 30% from a year ago, and blowout Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ ) earnings were considered, the Dow nearly clawed its way back to even ground.
- [By Alex Planes]
One big mistake deserves another
The minicomputer era came to an end (years after its natural death) when onetime minicomputer industry leader Digital Equipment Corporation became part of Compaq on June 11, 1998. The $9.6 billion merger, which had been proposed early that year, was at the time the largest such deal in computing history and was intended to help Compaq compete in the highly competitive enterprise-computing arena. CNNMoney noted that the deal "enable[d] Compaq to take advantage of the coming boom in business computing as companies upgrade their equipment ahead of the new millennium." The new company was to become the second-largest computer-maker in the world, ahead of even Compaq's eventual acquirer, Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ ) .
Top Tech Stocks To Buy For 2014: Spice I2i Limited (M09.SI)
S i2i Limited provides voice, data, and computing services worldwide. It also engages in the research, development, and distribution of telecommunication handsets, and related products and services, as well as design and marketing of telecommunication software. The company offers VoIP services to carriers, enterprises, service providers, and consumers. Its voice and data services comprise PC-Phone service that allows users to make calls from their PC to any phone in the world; GCC service, which enables users to make calls via IP infrastructure; IDD, mobile VoIP, and VoIP telephony service to corporate users and consumers; and enterprise service that allows corporate users to make calls via their existing corporate PABX and Internet access. The company�s voice and data services also include wholesale terminating services to carriers and service providers; technology licensing that offers connectivity and interoperability solutions to telecommunication carriers and wholesa le clearing houses; ISP service, which offers various data services, including broadband, leaseline access, private network, network security, hosted services, and IT solutions to corporate users and consumers; and Internet infrastructure, e-business applications consulting, project management, and systems support services, as well as business process outsourcing services and customer relationship management. In addition, it is involved in the supply, rental, maintenance, and servicing of computer hardware and peripheral equipment; system integration services relating to computer equipment and peripherals, storage systems, and network products; and computer advising and consultation activities, training of personnel and sales, and services of computer software. The company was formerly known as Spice i2i Limited and changed its name to S i2i Limited in July 2011. S i2i Limited was incorporated in 1993 and is headquartered in Singapore.
Top Tech Stocks To Buy For 2014: Universal Display Corporation(PANL)
Universal Display Corporation engages in the research, development, and commercialization of organic light emitting diode (OLED) technologies and materials for use in flat panel display, solid-state lighting, and other product applications. It owns exclusively license or has the sole right to sublicense approximately 1,400 patents issued and pending worldwide. The company licenses and supplies its proprietary UniversalPHOLED phosphorescent OLED technologies and materials to display manufacturers and others. It is also involved in the research, development, and commercialization of other OLED device and manufacturing technologies, including TOLED, which are transparent OLEDs for the fabrication of OLEDs that have transparent cathodes; FOLED that are flexible OLEDs for the fabrication of OLEDs on flexible substrates; OVPD, an organic vapor phase deposition process to deposit the layers of organic material in an OLED; UniversalP2OLED, which are printable phosphorescent OLEDs; OVJP that is an organic vapor jet printing technology; and encapsulation technology for the packaging of flexible OLEDs and other thin-film devices, as well as for use as a barrier film for plastic substrates. In addition, the company provides technology development and support services to third parties for the commercialization of their OLED products. It has strategic relationships with Samsung Mobile Display Co., Ltd.; LG Display Co., Ltd.; AU Optronics Corporation; Sony Corporation; Pioneer Corporation; Panasonic Idemitsu OLED Lighting Co., Ltd.; Tohoku Pioneer Corporation; Moser Baer Technologies, Inc.; Konica Minolta Holdings, Inc.; Denko K.K.; LG Chem, Ltd.; Panasonic Electric Works Co., Ltd.; NEC Lighting, Ltd.; Seiko Epson Corporation; and DuPont Displays, Inc. The company was founded in 1985 and is based in Ewing, New Jersey.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By Seth Jayson]
Universal Display (Nasdaq: PANL ) is expected to report Q1 earnings on May 9. Here's what Wall Street wants to see:
The 10-second takeaway
Comparing the upcoming quarter to the prior-year quarter, average analyst estimates predict Universal Display's revenues will expand 13.7% and EPS will remain in the red.
Top Tech Stocks To Buy For 2014: Rovi Corporation(ROVI)
Rovi Corporation provides digital entertainment technology solutions for the discovery and management of entertainment content. It offers interactive program guides; embedded licensing technologies, such as recommendations and search capability; media recognition technologies; licensing of the company?s database of descriptive information about television, movie, music, books, and game content; and analog content protection technologies and services. The company?s interactive program guides technology is an interactive listing of television or video program information that enables viewers to navigate through, sort, select, and schedule video programming for viewing and recording. The company also provides video delivery solutions, such as compression-decompression technology (codec) to enable distribution of content across the Internet and through recordable media in physical or streamed forms; and media manager, a personal computer application enabling consumers to man age personal media files, including music, photos, and video files. In addition, it offers digital copy solution for consumer electronics devices and PC software applications; the Rovi Entertainment Store video delivery solutions; content authoring solutions; and advertising solutions. Rovi Corporation primarily serves companies in the consumer electronics, cable and satellite, entertainment, and online distribution markets. The company was formerly known as Macrovision Solutions Corporation and changed its name to Rovi Corporation in July 2009. Rovi Corporation was founded in 1983 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By Alex Planes]
What: Shares of Rovi (NASDAQ: ROVI ) have lost nearly 12% today as a result of the company's disappointing earnings report. Both top and bottom lines missed estimates, and the company is now contemplating divestitures to keep itself afloat.
- [By Seth Jayson]
Rovi (Nasdaq: ROVI ) is expected to report Q1 earnings on May 1. Here's what Wall Street wants to see:
The 10-second takeaway
Comparing the upcoming quarter to the prior-year quarter, average analyst estimates predict Rovi's revenues will decrease -12.8% and EPS will wither -17.9%.
Top Tech Stocks To Buy For 2014: Deq Systems Corp. (DEQ.V)
DEQ Systems Corp. manufactures and sells auxiliary systems suitable for casino gaming tables worldwide. It offers table game bonusing technology, table games, table game results tracking, and jackpot connectivity solutions. The company�s products include table games comprising EZ Baccarat, EZ Pai Gow, and Caribbean Stud Poker; i3 technology side betting system; i3 progressive paytables, such as 5 Card Hand Bonus, Bad Beat Blackjack Progressive, and Progressive Pai Gow Poker tables; and Real Link, a secure wireless progressive jackpot management system, which links and manages various casino locations to a single shared table game progressive jackpot. Its patents and products also comprise multiple credit betting on the player�s and dealer�s hand, denomination betting flexibility, electronic credit bank, and electronic rake, as well as baccarat and blackjack hand tracking. In addition, the company offers G3 System side bet bonusing with progressive and random jackpot pri zes and slot machine style mystery bonusing; Dragon 7 and Panda 8 optional side wagers; EZ TRAK system, an LCD-based hand tracking system that provides players with valuable statistical data; and EZ Pai Gow, which accelerates the speed of Pai Gow poker. Further, it engages in the development of intellectual property related to table game bonusing; IP license management; lease and sale of table game bonusing technology; sale of patent rights; and collection of royalties. DEQ Systems Corp. is headquartered in L茅vis, Canada.
Top Tech Stocks To Buy For 2014: Wolfson Microelectronics(WLF.L)
Wolfson Microelectronics plc, a semiconductor company, engages in the design, manufacture, and supply of mixed-signal integrated circuits for the digital consumer electronics market worldwide. The company?s products include mono, multi-channel, stereo, and stereo low power ADCs; audio amplifiers; audio hubs; HDA, mono, mono low power, multi channel, stereo, and stereo low power CODECs, as well as stereo low power CODECs with touch screen controller and low power CODECs with integrated video buffer; multi channel, stereo, and stereo low power DACs; imaging ADCs; myZone ANC; power management products, power management with audio, and processors; S/PDIF transceivers; and true mics. Its products are used in portable battery operated products, such as mobile phones, portable media players, headsets/headphones, portable navigation devices, eBook readers, handheld game consoles, and digital cameras; and mains operated products, including Hi-Fi, flat panel televisions, Blu-ray pl ayers, set-top boxes, games consoles, and multi-functional printers and scanners. Wolfson markets and sells its products directly to original equipment manufacturer customers; and through independent distributors primarily in Japan, the Asia Pacific, Europe, and the Americas. The company was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in Edinburgh, the United Kingdom.
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