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Eddy Elfenbein submits: Thanks to Barron’s article, AFLAC (AFL) has been as high as $51.26 this morning. We’ll know a lot more after tomorrow’s close when the company reports Q2 earnings. Fiserv (FISV) and Wright Express (WXS) also report tomorrow. Fiserv, by the way, is a great example of a company that delivers consistently higher earnings. Here’s a look at their reported earnings in blue along with Wall Street’s projections in red.Complete Story »

Stephen Windwalker submits: Amazon (AMZN) has just announced a hugely significant deal to publish $9.99 Kindle exclusives of, for now, 20 of the great classics of contemporary literature from, mostly, the second half of the 20th century, and the publisher is a literary agency, The Wylie Agency. This news will have earthshaking ramifications for the Kindle catalog, for readers, and for authors, publishers, and literary agencies: yes, The Wylie Agency is a literary agency, not the publisher John Wiley, and this represents the first major foray by a literary agency into the world of Kindle content publishing, but not the last, but more about that later. So, the power shift in the publishing industry continues, and we're seeing some signs that there's an A-list of players holding the trump cards: authors, agencies and Amazon.Complete Story »

Stephen Windwalker submits: Originally posted to Kindle Nation Daily 7.21.2010 Apple (AAPL) put out a press release Tuesday to announce that they shipped over 12 million more Kindle-compatible devices during the fiscal quarter that ended in June, bring the worldwide total of Kindle-compatible devices to over 2 billion.Complete Story »

Stephen Windwalker submits: Originally posted to Kindle Nation Daily 7.21.2010 Apple (AAPL) put out a press release Tuesday to announce that they shipped over 12 million more Kindle-compatible devices during the fiscal quarter that ended in June, bring the worldwide total of Kindle-compatible devices to over 2 billion.Complete Story »

Kapitall submits:Here is a list of 15 companies releasing earning statements on July 22. We've sorted the companies by market cap, and have briefly discussed their earnings performance over the past 3 years. The charts show past earning performances against analyst estimates. The green markers indicate the company beating estimates, while the red makers represent the company falling short of analyst expectations. All data is sourced from Zacks Investment Research.Complete Story »

Kapitall submits:Here is a list of 15 companies releasing earning statements on July 22. We've sorted the companies by market cap, and have briefly discussed their earnings performance over the past 3 years. The charts show past earning performances against analyst estimates. The green markers indicate the company beating estimates, while the red makers represent the company falling short of analyst expectations. All data is sourced from Zacks Investment Research.Complete Story »

TechCrunch submits:
By MG SieglerAmazon’s Kindle eReader has long been a great device. Unfortunately, for much of its life, it has been far too expensive. And now with Apple’s iPad out there, it seems a bit too, well, monochrome. But Amazon (AMZN) did a smart thing recently, they slashed the price of the device, down to $189. As a result, growth is accelerating once again, Amazon says.Complete Story »

David Fry (ETF Digest) submits: Lately some investors have looked under the hood and were surprised to discover the NASDAQ 100 Index (NDX), to which the QQQQs (PowerShares QQQ Trust ETF) are linked, was nearly 20% weighted with Apple (AAPL) before the recent share price drop.Complete Story »

Trader Mark submits:With the S&P 500 grasping at 1070, and yet another "90% day" as the student body has run back to the left ("risk off" stampede), let's take a look ahead at the key reports next week; both for the greater market and what we have our eyes on. The next three weeks are the heart of the earnings season, and some of our holdings begin to pop up next week.Names the market will focus on:Complete Story »

Trefis submits:
Amazon (AMZN) is the largest online retailer in the US. It competes with companies like eBay (EBAY), Wal-Mart (WMT) and Best Buy (BBY) in the consumer retail space. We believe that growth in mobile e-commerce represents a major opportunity for pure online retailers like Amazon and eBay. Around 2% of online sales are generated through mobile phones, according to a recent study by Forrester Research. And mobile e-commerce is expected to generate 8.5% of all e-commerce revenues by 2015, according to Coda Research.Complete Story »