Singapore's SingTel Mobile plans to offer mobile stock trading on WAP-enabled phones.
In New York's famous Macy's store, if you want a shoe in a particular size the retail assistant will look it up in a virtual stock room on a mobile device within seconds.
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Or an associate on the stock floor will use a mobile device to ring up a sale.
Gelsinger oversaw acquisition of a company called Greenplum, which does data analysis for outfits like the New York Stock Exchange and T-Mobile.
Tero Kuittinen is an independent mobile telecommunications industry stock analyst.
For reference, go ahead and try a stock quote search on your favorite mobile search engine.
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You can bank online, pay bills, shop, buy stock and videoconference all from your mobile phone.
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He had conducted a detailed study of his company's fortunes and found that his income had increased by 70% in the six months after he started using a mobile phone in 2006, because basic activities such as stock handling and negotiating prices with suppliers become much more efficient with a mobile phone.
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Zynga continues to dominate the social gaming space and has made significant inroads in mobile gaming, but its stock performance has failed to impress as it continues to trade below its IPO price.
We are more concerned about the lack of a unified mobile strategy, and think the stock looks fairly valued following recent gains.
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Dave Meredith points out that Virgin has improved its rolling stock, and praises the "laptop and mobile phone power points, onboard radio stations, and clean, comfy seating".
The complex deal, which has been approved by the boards of both companies, is structured as a recapitalization of MetroPCS, which will be the surviving company, keep its stock listing, but take on the T-Mobile name.
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To be sure, concerns about mobile have been the largest overhang on the stock since the company went public in May.
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Already available are mobile phones and pocket computers that can display stock quotes and news, specially tailored to fit miniature screens, from the Web.
Since it became a public company last year, Facebook has been under pressure to launch exciting new products, especially for mobile, that will help boost its floundering stock price.
He also suggested that operators could tap the domestic stock market for investment, rather than - as China Mobile and China Unicom have done - resorting to the Hong Kong bourse for a listing.
China Mobile is a member of my Validea Professional 10-stock Asia portfolio, which is up 15.8% this year while the MSCI EAFE index is in the red.
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Telekomunikasi Indonesia trades on the New York Stock Exchange as an ADR and owns 65% of Telekomunikasi Selular, a mobile operator with 35.6 million customers.
Nikhil Hutheesing , editor of the Forbes Wireless Stock Watch, has it on his "buy" list, along with mobile-phone distributor Cellstar (nasdaq: CLST - news - people ), which trades at 13 times forward earnings.
The stock had rallied earlier in the day as the company announced the release of a mobile payment system, but jumped as CEO Andrew Mason gave an TV interview to CNBC.
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In terms of momentum, we will know more on Wednesday, but if the past is any indication, the new product introduction will be squarely in their sweet spot of mobile multimedia and will serve to provide yet another growth opportunity for the stock.
For holders of individual stocks, the best approach is to identify other companies that will benefit from the forces that are driving Apple's stock higher, says Amy Lubas, a strategist at Ned Davis Research, including the mobile Internet, cloud computing and the continued digitization of media.
Nvidia reports Tegra processor sales as part of its mobile and game console computing chip division, which constitutes 10.8% of our stock price estimate for the company.
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The Hangzhou-based mobile applications provider went on to announce several partnerships with large portal companies in China and its stock price increased 400% very quickly.
Abetted by his phone sets and servers, Japanese are already reading news, getting stock quotes, playing games, sending e-mail, checking their horoscopes and making purchases using their mobile phones.
Sprint Nextel was among the worst performers on Thursday as it stock plunged more than 16% on an earnings report that showed the third largest U.S. mobile carrier losing more than 100, 000 monthly mobile customers and a wider than expected loss.
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Non-GAAP operating income and non-GAAP operating margin exclude stock-based compensation (SBC) expense, as well as restructuring and related charges recorded in our Motorola Mobile business.
Opera Software ASA is listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol OPERA. 200 million people (and counting) are using the Opera, Opera Mobile and Opera Mini browsers.
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