Verizon Signs Expansion Deal With EMC Corporation

The wireless company has signed a deal with EMC to expand partnership for the purpose of offering a better cloud experience to customers.

Verizon Communications has reported a recent expansion of collaboration made with EMC Corporation, which is mainly for offering the facility to the customers of the wireless carrier to make business deals easily in relation with cloud services. The giant is already working in partnership with the corporation for a number of other services like the provision of scalable virtual block as well as other cloud based storage offerings.

In a press release, the Vice President of Verizon Labs, Kumar Vishwanathan, spoke to the media about how this collaboration is indeed an important one, which has the potential to guide the largest carrier in the country into making a strong platform that provides cloud services to the customers.

On the other hand, Vishwanathan also added that EMC has great personnel who possess the skills strong intelligent management along with adaptability, which is something that Verizon business can make good use of with the help of the partnership. All the aforementioned skills that can be used by the carrier have been deemed important for the cloud business that it considers as an integral part of the business in the coming times. Reports suggest that the software which will be provided by the software developers to the wireless giant is going to help it not only grow and expand in an efficient manner, but it will also make it scalable enough to go forward without a problem.

Analysts believe that scalability is something that Verizon wireless needs the most now, which can be ensured with the help coming from EMC. On the other hand, the virtualized storage provided by company to the wireless carriers is also a valuable asset that the giant is holding on to, as it is believed to be speeding up the process of services and deliveries to the customers at large. Currently, Verizon Labs seems to be making it big with object storage given by EMC and is running a software storage on hardware which is informed to ensure the performance of the commodity at its best.

According to the VP, it is also believed that virtualization of software storage has come at a time when the company needs it the most and it is to no one’s surprise as to how much the giant can benefit from it in the coming time. The more the storage capability grows, the more can be offered to the customers and this is just what the wireless giant aims to achieve.

Microsoft Stock: Sales Might Be Slower This Quarter

The software giant might be experiencing slow growth in the upcoming quarter which might turn its stock downwards in the coming days

Microsoft Corporation has been growing its hardware and software business in all the right directions, making a huge comeback with the new version of its operating system, the Windows 10. It is to no one’s surprise that the giant has been falling behind in the money generation business and has been stomped over by rivals like Alphabet and Apple, both of which have been growing at a massive speed towards greatness. The recent activities that the software giant has been showing in the industry suggest that the company is not ready to continue falling behind in the tech world now and is ready to make a difference with its ideas and brainstorming now.

Analysts in the financial markets have been eyeing the activities of Microsoft stock for some time now and seem to believe that the giant could possibly be experiencing the same kind of success it enjoyed back in 2000 and that this time, the whole turnaround might be just at the right time. It is also believed by the industry pundits that the software company has been distributing dividends and showing considerable amount of growth in the sense for the past couple of quarters, which has positioned itself on the top.

Reportedly, Microsoft shares have also been growing in a rapid speed, with the EPS for every quarter increasing too. This has been considered as a surprising factor, given how the giant’s revenue for every quarter has been finding it hard to sustain over the past couple of years. Analysts, even those that have been bearish towards the giant’s stock, believe that the fact its share value, dividend distribution or EPS does not fall despite the unsatisfactory sales show that the company is indeed standing on firm ground. It is also believed that the software giant can also end up getting more investors in the long run, but investors in any company first demand certainty from the stock activities and this is something that is yet to be achieved by the Windows maker.

Microsoft business has also been carrying out huge buy back plans for its shares for the past three months in which it has reportedly bought back shares valued up to $4 billion in order to make pay back for shares and dividends. On the other hand, the sales of its hardware and software products has been going down and have been reported at 12% as compared to the sales done in the same quarter previous year.  

Apple Investors Concerned About Falling iPhone Demand

Investors are very bearish towards the company's stock as rumors suggest that it might be cutting down on the production of its hardware.

Apple Inc has yet again experienced an uninvited dip in the stock market which the investors were clearly not expecting at this point in time. The software company has been ensuring the investing party of the progress it has been making in the industry and it still showing massive signs of growth which are enough to make anyone bullish about where the giant seems to be headed.

In the last reported fiscal quarter, the iPhone 6 Plus manufacturers reported record sales of the smart phone in the Chinese region which boosted the total sales figures attained by the giant in the same quarter. Apple Watch sales, however, were not as great as expected and the strength of earnings came majorly from colossal sales of the new generation iPhone.

As for the Apple share price, the fluctuation on the index starting from July to September showed that despite the strength of the guidance coming from the management’s side, the investors might not be as satisfied as the company wants them to be. In August, shares fell to a value of $100 and only managed to linger around $110 in September, which the analysts think was due to the fear of the shareholders regarding the ultimate dead end the giant might face once it is done enjoying extremely high sales of its products. However, the software company reported a massive growth of 38% in the earnings per share for the last quarter of 2015, which was around 4% more than what the equity companies in the market expected out of it.

According to rumors, Apple has also cut down on its components orders recently, which shows that the giant is currently facing a massive decline in the demand for its products. Even though the Silicon Valley based company has been giving its investors positive guidance for the next quarter as well, the dreading feeling that they are feeling regarding the declining sales of iPhone and Apple Watch is now evident in their behavior towards the stock. The tech giant reported a total figure of 231 million iPhones that were sold during the whole year 2015, which analysts believe cannot be matched unless the company comes up with something interesting to update the smart phone with.

The guidance for the Q1 2015 remains positive, but the recent rumors have made the stock price decline by around 2.92% which analysts think does not make sense, as they seem to completely rely on the next quarter guidance provided by the giant. This is mainly because the losses that the software company faces are not as big as the positives it has been reporting for the past couple of years.