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qc - total cost=30,000???
I don't get that?
5000x60=300,000
Do you mean 300,000 or did I miss something?
Assuming the 300,000, the cost basis for calculation for capital gains taxation is 300,000. Is this correct?
So whether the stock was bought at 60 or is split at a future time, the basis for taxation will always remain 60.
Is this correct?
understanding the split...
I understand that the upcoming stock will split each held share of stock two for one.
If I understand, a holding of 5000 @60 shares before the split will net 10,000 shares @30 post split.
Is this a correct basic view of a split??
Would the basis still remain the price you paid for the shares at the time purchased, or would there need to be a recalculation of the basis to account the split?
Anyone??
Rox: nightmare?
A nightmare for who???..Do you think QCOM is lumped in the nightmare? Or is this article just sour grapes?
What do you think?
Non-farm payroll up 308k,Market goes nutz.
March unemployment 5.7% form 5.6%
Govt said this increase is the fastest growth in 4 years.
I guess we can kiss 'Under 4% fed funds rates good-bye.
My guess is the Federal reserve won't be far behind with it's first rate increase.
QCOM may build Tech park in India...
Qualcomm considers India center
Qualcomm may set up a research facility in India that will employ as many as 100 people. Paul Jacobs, head of Qualcomm's wireless Internet group, told reporters in New Delhi that the company was in the late stage of considering the move. He didn't offer any further details and Qualcomm officials in San Diego were unable to clarify his remarks. India is increasingly an important market for Qualcomm, which licenses its wireless technology and sells cell phone chips.
QCOM gives TI a Black Eye -Tee-hee-hee
TI loses round vs. Qualcomm
March 18, 2004
A judge on Monday rejected a Texas Instruments Inc. motion to dismiss a lawsuit Qualcomm filed to void a patent agreement the two companies filed in 2000. Qualcomm is seeking to terminate TI's rights to use Qualcomm's patented wireless technology that powers cell phone chips because it said that Texas Instruments violated a confidentiality agreement by making public key parts of the deal.
The judge said the allegations raised by Qualcomm, if proven, are enough to support a finding that "the breach of the contract is so substantial that it defeats the object of the parties in making the contract" and was ready to hear the case as early as May.
Texas Instruments filed a countersuit last September alleging that Qualcomm is violating the cross-licensing agreement by offering discounts on royalty payments to phone makers that buy Qualcomm wireless chips.
Absent any share increase discussion,I vote NO.
Posted an inquiry to the thread, but no response.
I'm not real crazy about 3 year terms for the directors either.
I'm surprized that noone is chimeing in.
I think QCOM creating more shares is bad news.
Hav'nt heard any discussion here about it but the board has that as an adjenda item at the meeting.
The thing I don't like is that the board can change the distribution of the new share upon the board meeting and voting on a re-distribution at a latter time, without shareholder approval.
I also don't care for further share dilution, seeing as I don't really get anything out of it.
I think there are other ways to compensate employees other than on the backs of shareholders.
I also think this stock option non-sense is the stuff of which corporations got themselves is serious trouble the last few years.
I think there has to be another way.
Paul Jacobs looked like he was freezing
out there in the snow. Practice pointer for him on interveiws...
Make sure it's warm so the teeth don't chatter on camera.
Otherwise, pretty good poise, although he needs a bit more practice. Maybe it was the cold. It sure looked like it.
Paul Jacobs on CNBC right now
If anyone else sees it, please comment.
Oops:CNBC QCOM Interveiw at 10:45est
with the President of the wireless division (CEO's Son) hehe
CNBC to run a segment on QCOM appx10:35EST.
Sounds like an interveiw with someone at the "Davos" conference in Switzerland
Biz:As well as QCOM has performed in the face of the horrendous
markets of the last few years, every analyist invited to speak on telecoms always get around to bashing QCOM. In this case today, some pinnhead analyist whos brokerage name I missed, commented on how explosive QCOM stock was in the last few months, but then...as they always do...he said "but we at this brokerage feel this run is short-lived and will reverse itself sighting poor growth prospect for QCOM for the next 12 months.
QCOM hits these idiots in the head like a boulder and they keep insisting they stepped on a pebble.
I don't even listen to these pissants anymore.
Too bad the peasant investors still do.
CNBC just had another QCOM slap down at 1:35pm EST
Anyone else catch it?
Any thoughts??
Any comments on the post below???
Flash*MOT enters into multi-billion $ deal to supply China
with telecom equipment including China Unicom
Motorola, others in $2 bln China deals - sources
January 12, 2004 1:46pm ET (Reuters)
CHICAGO, Jan 12 (Reuters) - Motorola Inc. , the world's second-largest maker of cell phones, and several other companies will sign more than $2 billion in contracts to supply equipment to China's largest telephone and personal computer firms, sources close to the deals said on Monday.
As part of those deals, Motorola's wireless equipment unit will announce in Washington on Tuesday two contracts -- worth more than $1 billion -- with wireless operators China Unicom Ltd. and China Mobile , said one source, who asked not to be identified.
Communications equipment maker UTStarcom Inc. also will announce a contract -- worth $200 million -- with China Telecom Corp. Ltd. , said a second unidentified source.
Data:What do you make of this?Interesting to say the least.
US snuffs Baghdad's brief mobile phone fling -firm
July 28, 2003 12:11pm ET (Reuters)
By Cynthia Johnston
BAGHDAD, July 28 (Reuters) - Heavy pressure from the U.S. occupation authority in Iraq has forced a Bahraini firm to pull the plug on Baghdad's first brief experience with mobile phones, which were previously banned by Saddam Hussein, the firm said.
"They applied enough pressure for us to push the button," the firm's regional operations manager Rashid al-Snan told Reuters on Monday. "I feel really sorry -- sorry for the Iraqis and sorry for the foreigners who were using the network."
A spokeswoman for the U.S.-led Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) declined immediate comment on the closure of the GSM network operated by Bahrain's Batelco .
The U.S.-led authority in Iraq -- which wants to hold a tender for three regional mobile phone licences -- asked Batelco to shut down. A renegade service provider could throw a spanner into its plans for a tender for the licences, among the most potentially lucrative contracts to be offered in Iraq.
Iraq was frozen out of a global boom in personal portable phones by Saddam's secret state. But mobile phones sprang unexpectedly to life a week ago, delighting cellphone users who could make and receive calls around the world.
Within days, mobiles replaced pricey satellite telephones as a major means of communicating abroad -- at least for foreign journalists and businessmen. Few Iraqis have suitable phones.
Decrepit after years of international sanctions and badly disrupted by wartime bombing, landlines are not an option.
Snan said he understood from the Americans they could confiscate the $5 million-worth of antennae and other equipment Batelco had put up across Baghdad -- without compensation -- unless it turned off the phones.
Mobile phones were banned to all but senior officials connected to a special network while Saddam was in power.
KEEN ON LICENCE
Batelco, partly owned by the Bahraini government, said it planned to persist with its licence application at a tender conference in Amman, Jordan, later this week despite the shutdown. It hopes to invest $50 million in Iraq.
"If they give us the licence, we could operate immediately," Snan said. "We deserve more than anyone else to get this licence. We have shown we can do it."
The CPA has said licensed mobile service might arrive in "weeks rather than months" in Baghdad, where roughly half of landlines remain out of service more than three months into the military occupation.
The U.S. Army and development workers now use a network in Baghdad built by WorldCom Inc, a bankrupt U.S. telecoms firm -- but service is barred to ordinary Iraqis.
Iraq has not yet decided whether to use U.S. technology or the rival, more widespread European GSM system that is used throughout the rest of the Middle East.
A decision to use the global system for mobile communications standard (GSM) would be a blow to U.S. firms hoping to build a wireless network in Iraq based on the CDMA (code division multiple access) standard developed by California-based Qualcomm Inc.
GSM technology would allow Iraqi cellphone users to travel to neighbouring countries without changing phones.
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tp:RODGER HEDGECOCK of KOGO RADIO...
has really kept the people of San Diego county informed and
"Activated" regarding the political "Shinanigans" of the Sacramento "Mafia". I can't speak for the other counties around the State, but if the other counties had a Rodger Hedgecock bringing the truth about the crooks in Sacramento cutting up the pie and gourging themselves on our tax money while the people in the State are whipped harder to produce "Mo Money' for that band of greedy little piggies, it would be the people who would be gourging themselves on the porkchops of those slaughtered politcal pigs.
Your post reminds me of that type of reporting.
Rodger has, as a daily guest, Tom Mcclintoc so he can update San Dieagans on the political front in Sacramento.
I have heard that the recall petition to recall Greyout Doofis has surpassed the 1.2m signatures necessary and is now being tabulated by the Secratary of State, who I am informed, is being manipulated by the Governor.
This State is in worse trouble now than we were in the early-mid 1980's
s.o.s (Save our state)
tp:Should'nt the title be"Pull my finger"lol
Golf:Great!So where do we draw the Boarder??lol
JIm:QCOM didn't miss the opportunity.It's always intentional.
Cramer="THe mouth that roared"..What an aboutface..
from his comments on "Jim Cramer's real money" radio program approximatly 5 months ago when he, on a segment of his show called "The Danger Zone" called QCOM a dangerous stock to own claiming that QCOM was investing its capitol in "Junk Bonds" and did not tell the investors about it.
Cramer did not identify the corporate debt that QCOM was buying, but he sure did "amp" to his listening audiance about getting out of the stock right away under the premis of "Investment capitol preservation".
Anyone notice that Cramer sounds alittle like "Bobcat Goldwaith" (Spelling nonwithstandig).lol
They're all whores
Mindy:I have long believed that NOK...
begrudgingly got into the CDMA game just to give QCOM a death blow.
Consider this... NOK gets into the CDMA game to intentionally distribute sabotaged (Right from NOK factories) CDMA handsets that don't work right on CDMA networks but work fine on GSM networks and consequently sours the cell phone consumers against CDMA carriers and CDMA technology.
Psycos from every dark corner of corporate or political walks will go to any length for their own idiology. Even to the point of chewing off their own foot.
Idiologs are dangerous.
So what do you think QCOM is doing to protect its own corporate life from that type of sabotage?
I'm seeing that NOK handsets are disfunctional with CDMA networks, and NOK pawns the blame off on faulty CDMA technology and carriers.
Maybe time to pull NOK licence for CDMA.
Then I guess you've answered Mindy's question...
regarding the same.
So you believe QCOM does not have a product to sell?
Intel's advertising has put them in the imangination of every comsumer that buys a computer.
There's just no getting around that.
Qualcomm is not a brand in the imanginations of the consuming public.
It should be.
What a contradiction to had a stadium in San Diego named after the company....and no other branding or advertising.
Mindy...are you listening??
If the QCOM board cared about shareholders..
they would give out a decent dividend until this wonder technology is accecpted.Give a premium to the shareholders for the wait. It's not unheard of...just look at the 'Dogs of the Dow'.
The insiders already pulled their money out.
Regarding the QCOM board it is simply a case of
'Mind over Matter'...
They don't mind cause the shareholders don't matter.
Do you honestly think that the decision not to advertise QCOM in any way is a company oversight?
Therefore, the chimp strategy is to copy...
what the Gorilla does, always staying behind the gorilla in a follow-the-leader game. In other words, the chimp is not going to waste capital on new features that will have no known market, it will instead progress in the prudent route of copying the Gorilla, always server the older feature low/mid market, while the Gorilla expands the new feature, high margin market. (Look over the history of Intel and chimps like AMD for example of how this works.)
This is what is killing, and will continue to kill QCOM.
I say QCOM is actually dead, but continues to kick around in its final death spasm.
Copy the Gorrilla....sell it cheaper....take the losses for awhile...downplay the cutting edge....good enough is just that... and at the end...QCOM becomes irrelavant.
Just like the one trick ponies of the past.
Not only is this stock plummiting...so is the company and its business model.
Competition is a real mother.
Do you ever wonder why QCOM does no advertising??
I know.
Therefore, the chimp strategy is to copy...
what the Gorilla does, always staying behind the gorilla in a follow-the-leader game. In other words, the chimp is not going to waste capital on new features that will have no known market, it will instead progress in the prudent route of copying the Gorilla, always server the older feature low/mid market, while the Gorilla expands the new feature, high margin market. (Look over the history of Intel and chimps like AMD for example of how this works.)
This is what is killing, and will continue to kill QCOM.
I say QCOM is actually dead, but continues to kick around in its final death spasm.
Copy the Gorrilla....sell it cheaper....take the losses for awhile...downplay the cutting edge....good enough is just that... and at the end...QCOM becomes irrelavant.
Just like the one trick ponies of the past.
Not only is this stock plummiting...so is the company and its business model.
Competition is a real mother.
Do you ever wonder why QCOM does no advertising??
I know.
Perhaps Qualcomm is not utilizing a valuable resource.
So what else is new at QCOM.
I was not aware QCOM was a sofware maker...
unless the article is refering to "BREW"
NEW YORK, April 14 (Reuters) - The New York Times reported the following stories on its business pages on Monday:
* Scrushy ran HealthSouth real estate on the side. Richard M. Scrushy, HealthSouth's founder, helped create a real estate investment trust that allowed him and his partners to profit handsomely.
* Tax inquiries fall as cheating increases. Investigations and prosecutions of suspected tax criminals have fallen by half over the last decade, even as cheating has grown.
* Nightly news feels pinch of 24-hour news. TV news executives are noticing that viewers are increasingly tuning out the broadcast networks' evening newscasts.
* As Qualcomm plots future, CEO's son awaits role. Qualcomm, a $3 billion maker of software and microprocessors for mobile phones, may see the son of its current chief assume the reins.
Intended as News..Not spam..
StockPickReport.com Announces Stock Evaluation Ratings for QUALCOMM, USA Interactive, Symantec, Wells Fargo, Citrix Systems
April 15, 2003 12:02pm ET (BusinessWire)
StockPickReport.Com (IARD#119079 - http://www.stockpickreport.com/?src=bw) makes these short-term stock recommendations: QUALCOMM (NASDAQ:QCOM) - BUY -
http://pr.stockpickreport.com/QCOM.htm
USA Interactive (NASDAQ:USAI) - SELL -
http://pr.stockpickreport.com/USAI.htm
Symantec (NASDAQ:SYMC) - BUY -
http://pr.stockpickreport.com/SYMC.htm
Wells Fargo (NYSE:WFC) - SELL -
http://pr.stockpickreport.com/WFC.htm
Citrix Systems (NASDAQ:CTXS) - SELL -
http://pr.stockpickreport.com/CTXS.htm
QUALCOMM (NASDAQ:QCOM)
StockPickReport.Com Rating: BUY
http://pr.stockpickreport.com/QCOM.htm
QUALCOMM develops, designs, manufactures and markets digital wireless telecommunications products and services based on the code division multiple access (cdma) technology.
The short-term trend for the stock's daily volume looks like it's moving up. At the same time, daytraders that watch near-term oscillating stochasic might see the buy signal generated recently. Qcom investors should notice that qcom's end-of-day price moved higher during the previous couple of trading sessions based on its 1-week average of the longer term rate-of-change moving average. In our opinion, StockPickReport.Com research indicates a "long" strategy (selling puts, buying calls, closing short positions, or outright buying QCOM) at current levels offers traders a nice chance for a profitable trade.
For clarification on how we rate QCOM a BUY, please visit:http://pr.stockpickreport.com/QCOM.htm.
Something good seems "A-Brewin"...
Airborne Entertainment Publishes Award-Winning Lemonade Tycoon for QUALCOMM's BREW(TM) Platform
April 14, 2003 9:02am ET (PR NewsWire)
Airborne Entertainment Inc., leading publisher of top-flight branded wireless entertainment, today announced that it is bringing the hit Pocket PC game Lemonade Tycoon to QUALCOMM's Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless(TM) (BREW) platform. Lemonade Tycoon is the first in a series of premium branded titles Airborne plans to bring to BREW operators in the coming months.
Lemonade Tycoon is a unique, cheeky business simulation game that allows players to flex their entrepreneurial muscles and turn a sidewalk lemonade stand into a global mega-corporation. Loaded with features and full-color animated graphics, Lemonade Tycoon leads players through the ups and downs of the business world. Players must rent the best location, monitor their recipes, keep an eye on the weather and other trends, set prices, advertise, manage inventory, buy equipment, and then watch as the results of their decisions play out on their mobile phone screens.
"We absolutely love Lemonade Tycoon," said Garner Bornstein, chief executive officer, Airborne Entertainment. "You'd never believe a mobile phone could provide such rich game play and graphics until you actually have it in front of you. Developing for the BREW platform has enabled us to bring the challenge and fun of Lemonade Tycoon to BREW operators and their wireless subscribers -- creating an entirely new group of users that we expect to grow rapidly."
"It's a small miracle," agreed Andy Nulman, president, Airborne Entertainment. "When you consider the relatively limited real-estate on a mobile phone compared to a Pocket PC, it's truly amazing how well this game ported to the wireless space. There's absolutely nothing like it out there in terms of playability and re-playability!"
"Airborne's Lemonade Tycoon is a perfect example of the tremendously robust and entertaining content being developed for BREW-enabled handsets," said Mike Yuen, director, BREW Developer Relations, QUALCOMM Internet Services. "We are pleased to provide Airborne with the business and technical solution enabling them to generate revenue by delivering compelling content to mobile users."
Developed by Montreal-based Hexacto Games Inc., Lemonade Tycoon has already taken the Pocket PC and Palm gaming world by storm, winning Pocket PC Magazine's 2002 "Strategy Game of the Year" award and "Game of the Month" on WorldofPPC.com, while PDA Buyer's Guide gushed, "The design is so creative that the game can keep you hooked for hours."
QUALCOMM's BREW solution is a complete product and business system for the development and over-the-air deployment of data services on wireless devices. The BREW solution provides the necessary tools and value-added services to developers, device manufacturers and wireless operators for application development and distribution, device configuration, and billing and payment.
About Airborne Entertainment
Airborne Entertainment is the leading turnkey mobile channel management company, creating, deploying, distributing and managing the most compelling mobile games and entertainment for the world's most recognizable media and consumer brands. Airborne Entertainment distributes its specialty channels and programs to all top-tier wireless carriers, reaching nearly 100% of all enabled mobile subscribers in North America. A privately held company, Airborne Entertainment was founded by Internet industry pioneer Garner Bornstein and Andy Nulman, the long-time CEO of the world-renowned Just For Laughs Comedy Festival. For more information, please visit www.airborne-e.com .
QUALCOMM is a registered trademark of QUALCOMM Incorporated. BREW is a trademark of QUALCOMM Incorporated. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owner.
SOURCE Airborne Entertainment Inc. Nancie Wight of Airborne Entertainment Inc., +1-514-289-9111,
ext. 232, nancie@airborne-e.com
http://www.airborne-e.com
This seem interesting in light of middle-east...
and european resistance to CDMA
Pelephone Will Launch in Israel QUALCOMM's BREW(TM)-Based Application Services Platform
April 8, 2003 9:01am ET (PR NewsWire)
Pelephone will launch in Israel QUALCOMM's BREW(TM)-based application services platform under a memorandum of understanding (MOU) signed between the companies. The BREW solution enables customizing handsets by downloading applications over the air thus optimizing the efficiency of the application downloading process both for the customer and the company.
Gil Sharon, Deputy C.E.O and C.MO, Pelephone said the company is glad to join QUALCOMM in the formation of an advanced solution which enables direct downloading of applications to the handset. He added that BREW would give Pelephone's subscribers access to wireless applications and services as games -- including such multiplayer games as chess, checkers and backgammon -- navigation location services, video, communication tools such as e-mail, international and local news services and more, that will transform their mobile phones into powerful communications tools. The company anticipates that the versatile capabilities of the BREW solution will generate a significant level of interest throughout Israel for the BREW-enabled handsets and services.
Sharon added that the deployment of the BREW solution is yet another step in Pelephone's strategy of maintaining and strengthening its leadership in the fields of content and applications. As Pelephone considers itself to be the leader in these areas, the company is actively expanding the variety of products and services for its customers. He concluded and said that the current agreement coupled with the GoNext and Esc content systems positions Pelephone as an undisputed market leader. The combination between those advanced systems and the CDMA2000 1X network creates a unique experience for Pelephone's users.
"We look forward to working with Pelephone as they prepare to deliver their BREW-based applications service to their subscribers," said Dr. Paul E. Jacobs, president of QUALCOMM Wireless & Internet Group. "Pelephone is recognized for its leadership in driving the evolution of Israel's wireless communications, and their decision to deploy BREW-based services solidifies their position as Israel's most advanced operator for wireless data services."
The cooperation with QUALCOMM positions Pelephone in the forefront of the international cellular industry along side market leaders, which have already deployed BREW-based products and services, including Verizon Wireless and ALLTEL in the United States, KTF in South Korea, KDDI of Japan, China Unicom, Australia's Telstra and the joint venture between Telefonica Moviles and Portugal Telecom in Brazil.
QUALCOMM's BREW solution is a complete product and business system for the development and over-the-air deployment of data services on wireless devices. The BREW solution provides the necessary tools and value-added services to developers, device manufacturers and wireless operators for application development and distribution, device configuration, and billing and payment.
QUALCOMM Incorporated (www.qualcomm.com) is a leader in developing and delivering innovative digital wireless communications products and services based on the Company's CDMA digital technology. Headquartered in San Diego, Calif., QUALCOMM is included in the S&P 500 Index and is a 2003 FORTUNE 500(R) company traded on The Nasdaq Stock Market(R) under the ticker symbol QCOM.
SOURCE Pelephone Mr. Eilon Agam, VP Value Added Services & Content of PELEPHONE
Communication, +972-3-5728383, or mobile, +972-50-801000, or fax,
+972-3-5728038, or eagam@pelephone.co.il
http://www.qualcomm.com
That is indeed a short list..
so then the handset manufactures (NOK MOT Samsung etc) have to buy the chips from that short list of companies, you listed or from QCOM, if I understand you correctly..do I??
And if that is so...then QCOM competes head to head with the QCOM licensees that manufacture those CDMA chips.
This I don't get
hmmm!I thought they were licenced to..
manufacture and sell their own versions of CDMA chips, but if I follow what you say, NOK, Samsung, MOt ect are only licenced to manufacture CDMA chips for their own handsets...is that what you are saying??
If that is so, then these companies are limited to maufacturing CDMA chips for products in their own product lines, and QCOM is the only chip manufacture that is free to sell it's CDMA chips directly to whomever. Is that the jist of what you are saying??
This seems to clear up some questions...
I've had, but still...samsung has an "Ecomony of Scale" ability to manufacture their own chips at a reduced cost.
I wonder if QCOM may be thinking of spinning off the chip manufacturing after all, or just selling it off altogether a la "Handset" division.
The analyist talk while QCOM burns...
I don't understand why you continue to believe these bafoons
when you continue to say they have it all wrong.
Seems now you believe them.
I just don't get it.
If that is the case then why would..
QCOM even continue to manufacture chips when the knock-offs are perceived to be just as good and cheaper too.
How about this senerio...All the QCOM killers (NOK Samsung Mot etc)conspire to manufacture their own CDMA chips with the express intent to imbed (Purposly) flaws in the chips that renders the CDMA portion of the phone disfuctional, while the GSM portion functions fine.
I know in the short run that would be expensive, however, there are alot of manufactures and operators that have already spent alot of money to dicredit QCOM already...and they have succeeded.
It is a fact.. you know...the repetition of a lie will indeed convert it into truth - at least in thre real world.
Most of the poster here declared...
"It did'nt realy matter who was producing in the realm of CDMA and that QCOM would benefit from anyone who produced anything in CDMA." (Paraphrased).
ARTICLE QUOTE IN PERTINENT PART:
"In addition, Samsung may be looking to crack the Chinese and Indian markets. And it'll have company: Nokia (NOK) has decided to roll out a wide range of CDMA-based cellphones in China, too. And like Samsung, Nokia says it will use its own chipsets, rather than turn to Qualcomm as a supplier."
I am seeing that it indeed does matter who produces what.
From what I see, QCOM is being side-stepped and out marketed (Not that QCOM does any marketing, because I've never seen advertising from QCOM),from every telecom corner-with NOK in the lead...again!
Sooner or latter, manufacturers are going to go with the "Critical Mass" tecnology, and it ain't QCOM these days.
I think everyone else is catching on too including the consumer, and QCOM does nothing, says nothing about how they will protect the company, and its loyal shareholders.
Regarding those so-called "Protesters",QCOM says nothing about the "Personal Attack" on their product, and on the "Company"
Not too many posts ago another poster here on this thread said that QCOM will not respond unless personally attacked. Where is the QCOM response?
That protest was an assault to QCOM, the United States, George Bush, the American fighting soldier, American business and an endorsment, by Americans citizens, of the manner in which the French, Germans, United Nations and Iraq conduct business. I'm wondering who put those young "skulls full of mush" up to that.
Out of all the companies in the U.S. - Why QCOM. (Please skip the Darrel Isa reason).
In conclusion, it seems that QCOM has lost prespective,(Political and otherwise) and focus in a business modle that is seemingly working very poorly for them.
I see it it with my eyes...but I just don't get it!
Maybe I am seeing it and it is as it appears.
I've once heard that tyrany prevails if the good people remain silent, and if the good people remain silent, they get whats coming to um'.