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Sunday, September 23rd (All times eastern)
Chicago White Sox (81-70) at LA Angels of Anaheim (83-69), 3:35 p.m.
Probable Starting Pitchers: Chicago - Gavin Floyd (10-10, 4.50) LA Angels - Jered Weaver (18-4, 2.79)
(Sports Network) - Jered Weaver can become the first 19-game winner in the American League and keep the LA Angels within striking distance of a playoff spot when he takes the mound today in the finale of a three-game series versus the Chicago White Sox.
Weaver has won two straight and three of his last five starts (3-1), including an 11-3 drubbing of the Texas Rangers on Tuesday in which he yielded three runs in seven innings of work. The win lifted his record to 18-4 in 27 starts with a 2.79 earned run average.
The lanky right-hander, who has never won 19 games in a season and recently had a bout with biceps tendinitis, is 10-2 in 14 starts at home this year and 6-2 with a 1.61 ERA in nine career starts against the White Sox. Weaver has won 18 games in back-to-back campaigns.
Anaheim has won the first two matchups in this series and will go for the sweep this afternoon. Ervin Santana dazzled in Friday's opener of the set, then Dan Haren did his job last night by hurling six innings of two-run ball.
"When we got the lead I was able to be aggressive," Haren said. "I think everything was working tonight. We've lost some tough games, but we're very positive right now."
Ernesto Frieri later came on for his 20th save for the Angels, who are 2 1/2 games off the final wild card berth in the American League. Mark Trumbo drove in two runs, while Albert Pujols and Torii Hunter had an RBI apiece. Mike Trout had a run scored -- his 121st of the season -- and is nearing Vladimir Guerrero's franchise record of 124 runs scored in 2004.
The Angels have won six of nine games and will host Seattle for three games on their current nine-game homestand (3-2).
Chicago's lead atop the AL Central continued to evaporate and the club is only one-half game ahead of Detroit in the division standings.
The White Sox lost their fourth in a row since winning five straight and look to close out a six-game road trip on a high note. Jose Quintana was saddled with the loss last night and gave up four runs -- one earned -- and six hits in five innings.
"Jose had a rough first inning but after that he pitched pretty good," said Chicago manager Robin Ventura, who was ejected in the fourth inning by first base umpire Ed Hickox after a balk call to Quintana. "There was a couple of spots where we had our chances, just couldn't capitalize."
Paul Konerko homered and Alex Rios went 3-for-4 with a run scored for Chicago.
Chicago is scheduled to return to the Windy City for a seven-game homestand versus Cleveland and Tampa Bay.
Gavin Floyd gets the call for the Pale Hose today and is coming off a win at Kansas City in his second outing since a stint on the disabled list. Floyd allowed two runs in seven innings and is 6-3 in his last nine decisions.
The right-hander was able to even his mark at 10-10 in 26 starts with a 4.50 earned run average, and will face the Angels for the 10th time in his career. Floyd is only 2-5 with a 5.20 ERA in the first nine starts in this series with Anaheim, which reached him for five runs in 6 1/3 innings of a 6-5 win back on Aug. 4. Floyd did not factor in the outcome of that one.
Anaheim is 4-3 against the White Sox this season.
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Shares of development tools vendor Progress Software (PRGS) are up $1.61, or almost 6%, at $29.76, after the company this afternoon reported fiscal Q2 revenue and earnings per share that topped analysts' expectations, projected this quarter's revenue slightly lower, and raised its full-year earnings projection, despite the continued foreign-exchange effect of the rising U.S. dollar dragging down results.
Revenue in the three months ended in May rose 25%, year over year, to $100.9 milion, yielding EPS of 35 cents a share.
Analysts had been modeling $99 million and 31 cents.
The results above are on a non-GAAP basis. The company explained that the adjustment included in non-GAAP figures reflects revenue related to its acquisition of Telerik, "Since GAAP accounting requires the elimination of this revenue, GAAP results alone do not fully capture all of our economic activities."
On a GAAP basis, sales were up 10% at $88.8 million, and would have been up 19%, the company said, if not for the effect of the rising U.S. dollar.
CEO Phil Pead called the results "a strong performance," adding that "all business units contributed solid results with some key technology releases during the quarter."
For the current quarter, Progress sees revenue in a range of $101 million to $104 million, and EPS of 35 cents to 38 cents. That compares to consenus for $104 million and 35 cents.
For the full year, the company sees revenue of $415 million to $425 million, unchanged from its prior view, and slightly ahead of the consensus $419 million on the Street. However, EPS is now seen in a range of $1.45 to $1.52, up from a prior forecast of $1.35 to $1.45, and ahead of the average estimate for $1.42.
Progress noted that the forecasts reflected "significant strengthening of the US dollar that began in late 2014," and the company expects "the negative currency translation impact on Progress Software's 2015 business outlook compared to 2014 exchange rates is $25 – $26 million on non-GAAP revenue and $0.13 – $0.14 on non-GAAP earnings per share."
Google (GOOGL) is seeing a decline in the growth rate of the "paid clicks" that make up the core of its revenue, according to a report today from Axiom Capital's Victor Anthony, who writes that the decline is masked by strength in the YouTube ads business.
Anthony, who has a Hold rating on Google Shares, and a $615 price target, cites search traffic data from digital marketing agency RKG supporting the notion search spending is healthy in general, even if Google is losing share:
In 1Q15, paid clicks growth on core websites of 25%, matching the growth rate in 4Q, at first glance appeared to refute cautious checks throughout the quarter. However, Google revealed that websites paid clicks growth benefits from YouTube TrueView ads, and that core websites search paid clicks growth is lower (not quantified) but still positive. We likely won't get the paid search clicks ex-the TrueView ads when Google reports, but it is becoming clear that paid search clicks on Google has decelerated meaningfully, even if it hasn't turned negative, as suggested by the RKG data. Search spend growth on Google, what really matters, remains in the double digits, but is decelerating. Industry search clicks and paid search spend are decelerating. However, search spend is still healthy, in the mid-teens, driven by increases in CPCs; Google is losing share of paid clicks and search spend.
A totally different issue for Google is the potential threat of Apple's (AAPL) rumored efforts to create its own search engine. There's no imminent danger to Google, thinks Anthony, even if the new service were to show up as soon as this fall:
RKG noted that Applebot continues to crawl the web and Apple constitutes 37% of Google's clicks in the U.S. on iOS and desktop Safari. The search engine community has long speculated that Apple was building out its own web search capabilities, and speculation was that Apple would have dropped Google as the default search provider on iOS/OS X this past spring. Apple could yet be contemplating such a move with the launch of iOS 9 in the fall. Google's long lead time in search and the volume of searches conducted via Google will make it tough for new entrants to match Google's relevance. We are unsure if Apple has ambitions on competing head-to-head with Google in search in the same way as Bing, or whether these efforts will be contained to only SIRI and Spotlight. Either way, Apple's entry into search in any form, while a competitive risk for Google, is unlikely to have a near-term or medium-term impact on Google's search business. Longer-term there is a risk that Apple could be successful and impact Google.
Taken together with Microsoft's (MSFT) announcement this week it will sell its display advertising component of its Bing search engine to AOL (AOL), Anthony sees the issues piling up for Google: "The loss is not material. However, with past losses (Mozilla), and potential losses from IAC [IAC/Interactive (IACI)] and Apple, partnership losses, on the whole, are becoming a material risk for Google."
Google shares today closed up $3.26, or 0.6%, at $543.30.
Shares of online food ordering service GrubHub (GRUB) are down $2.60, or almost 8%, at $31.47, following mixed Street commentary.
Apparently, the stock got some "cautious" comments from a boutique brokerage firm, ITG, according to a brief mention from wire service TheFlyontheWall.
TheFly staff write that unnamed sources tell it ITG projects a miss on Q2 revenue, perhaps just $84 million versus consensus for $85.3 million, and that "The firm said its analysis indicates that key consumer metrics continued to decelerate and that GrubHub has lost market share in newer markets in Q2."
GrubHub is expected to report results on July 23rd, before market open.
On the other hand, Guggenheim Secrurities's Jake Fuller initiated coverage of the stock over night, slapping a Buy rating on it, and a $45 price target, writing that GrubHub has "solid trends" and is a leader in the consolidating "online ordering category."
Attacking points of the bear thesis, Fuller writes that a sharp sell-off following Q1 results, because of a lower outlook for Ebitda, was an over-reaction:
GRUB was hit hard following its 1Q15 call, with concern around the fact that it left revenue guidance unchanged for the rest of 2015 and scaled back EBITDA expectations at a time when investors were penalizing Internet names for any perceived issue. The apparent concern is that erosion in order frequency and a hit to EBITDA margin targets, potentially point to an earlier-than-expected topping out in the ordering category and impairment to longer-term growth expectations. The stock has traded off 31% since the release, which compares to the NASDAQ at -2%. We argue that GRUB is simply doing what a growth company should be doing…investing to drive growth. The move in revenue expectations points to the health of the core business and we see investment around delivery services as ultimately accretive (expands the TAM and improves the customer experience). Erosion in order frequency is a function of mix shift to younger markets, but GRUB continues to indicate that those markets are advancing more quickly than Tier I markets had. In short, the guidance and commentary do not appear to justify concern that the push in Tier II or Tier III markets comes at a diminishing return.
He also sees potoential for GrubHub to either buy companies or get bought itself, perhaps by Google (GOOGL) or another party, as the market consolidates:
We see consolidation unfolding across the broader restaurant services vertical, which runs from discovery to reservations, ordering, delivery and payments. Much like we are seeing in eTravel, a race to vertically integrate is underway. As a clear leader in the important ordering category, GRUB is likely to be a central participant as consolidation plays out. We have seen traditional restaurant discovery platforms like Google (GOOG, NC $521.52), TripAdvisor and Yelp push down. GOOG recently added order-now links, TRIP and YELP have acquired a number of restaurant reservation services, and Priceline (PCLN, NEUTRAL, $1,107.73) bought OpenTable. We are also seeing convergence in the ordering and delivery categories with GRUB buying DiningIn and Restaurants on the Run. Finally, privately-held Zomato (started out as an Indian discovery business) acquired Urbaspoon, NexTable (reservations) and MaplePOS (mobile bill payment) to build offerings across the spectrum. GRUB can certainly be a buyer in the discovery, delivery and payments area in its own efforts to vertically integrate, but could also be a key link for larger players looking to build out a viable restaurant services offering. In any case, M&A is likely to evolve as a key ingredient to the bull case.
Regarding this quarter, Fuller actually sees a slight beat on revenue, perhaps $86 million. For the full year, he models $361 million in revenue and $112 million in Ebitda, versus consensus for $359.8 million and $108.3 million.
Also coming to the stock's defense, apparently, was Raymond James's Aaron Kessler. Kessler did not publish anything, but apparently some internal firm notes about GrubHub leaked. Kessler reportedly said "business remains strong." He has a Buy on the stock, and a $45 price target.
This is a big week for upstart smartphone vendor Xiaomi of China, the privately held concern that has received billions in private financing and that has rocketed up the charts in sales in the last year. Yesterday, continued its expansion outside its home country with the debut of its first offering for Brazil, its "Redmi 2" phone, for the equivalent of $160.
Re/Code's Ina Fried had a write up yesterday of the debut.
The device runs a modified version of Google's (GOOGL) Android operating system, and is a poster child for the kinds of innovation that startup Cyanogen, which makes the software, argues can happen outside the walled gardens of Apple (AAPL) and Google.
The company's public face, marketing exec Hugo Barra was on CNBC a short while ago with anchors Jon Fortt and Kayla Tausche.
Asked if the price of $160 will benefit from local manufacturing, Barra replied that it will. "We are in fact manufacturing locally here in Brazil. It is one of the ways to get to the best price with all the tax advantages."
Barra noted what he called a strong showing by fans in Brazil, stating "We had a 1,000 fans show up yesterday, and had to do a second launch event because we couldn't fit everyone in the theater."
Fortt asked if Xiaomi's business model will be different outside of China.
No, he said, although the approach is to take advantage of the local nature of the market and some of Brazil's idiosyncrasies:
We are bringing the same business model and same user model to Brazil — a very social media-driven model for creating buzz, for marketing, for sales. We are just beginning to build some services focused on the needs of users in Brazil. For example, in Brazil, It's fairly common to hire someone for an hour to pick up something across town for you given how hard traffic is. They call them " otorboys," and it's some guy on a motorcycle that just cruises around the city. We'll integrate something like that into the operating system. It'll be a very local experience.
Tausche wanted to know how the company avoids losses in Brazil given "other high costs, such as labor, distribution, energy." But Barra replied, "We don't have to operate at a loss here."
"The secret is to repeat our success in e-commerce. We are coming in and trying to disrupt with our approach to market; that's what's going to make our business fly."
What about Apple's Apple Music, asked Fortt, which went live yesterday and which Apple is expected to bring to Android as well?
"What are you going to do different in music to prevent Apple Music from becoming the default?" asked Fortt.
"We operate our own music service in China, and we have considered bringing it to international markets, but it's too early to say," replied Barra.
"I think there will be quite a bit happening in this space, but we'll see, it's a very difficult space, the economics can be tricky, we'll see."
Would Xiaomi, for example, start a radio station to compete with Apple's "Beats 1"?
"How many things are on the table?
"The price points of music services are a bit too high for our markets such as Brazil, Indonesia, India," said Barra. "It's not quite certain what they are doing will be relevant."
Shares of online hearth services company Teladoc (TDOC) are up $11.48, or 60%, at $30.48, after pricing their IPO at $19 last night in an offering led by J.P. Morgan and Deutsche Bank.
Teladoc, with offices in Purchase, New York, and Lewisville, Texas, is an early entrant in what some expect is a wave of digital health care firms coming to the public market this year, as I wrote in a column for Barron's print magazine in May.
Teladoc offers to diagnose you or give you advice in non-emergency situations via telephone or computer, 24 hours a day. It bills itself as the largest telehealth provider in the U.S. Last September, it scored $50 million in venture funding.
As I wrote in May, Teladoc is just one of multiple startups offering to pair patients with doctors. ZocDoc of New York is the OpenTable of patient visits, while Zipnosis of Minneapolis lets you get diagnosed via the Internet for $25 within one hour by a local physician just by answering questions through a smartphone app. $4.1 billion went into such startups last year, according to venture capital firm Rock Health of San Francisco, which tracks funding and makes the data available on its Web site.
In its IPO prospectus, the company lists $43 million in revenue in 2014, and a loss of $17 million, or $10.25 per share. The company had an actual deficit of $79 million as of March, and an adjusted, pro-forma equity position of $159 million.
Teladoc follows newly public outfits such as Everyday Health (EVDY) and Care.com (CRCM), which have had rocky performances since their debut. Everyday is down 32% in the last 12 months, and 13% this year, while Care is down 54% and 30%, respectively. Others have faded a little better, such as Imprivata (IMPR), down just 4% in 12 months and up 21% this year.
The hope is that firms such as Teladoc could be the next athenahealth (ATHN), or perhaps an acquisition target for Cerner (CERN) and other large health care firms.
Update: CEO Jason Gorevic was kind enough to take a few minutes just now to speak with me by phone.
Asked if he was surprised by the big pop, he implied he was not, noting that "the reaction on the road show was very strong."
His take on the debut: "Today is a great launching pad for us as we revolutionize the health care industry."
The term for Teladoc's area of the market is "tele heath," says Gorevic. That includes the ability to interact with physicians by video, by phone, to upload images, or use an app on a mobile device. I asked about the myriad of startups that could be classed in that area, such as ZocDoc. He says the company is "by far the market leader."
What does that mean?
"We haven't been able to find another company that has the kind of revenue growth we have and market opportunity. We are in fact larger than all the competitors combined. The benefit to consumers and employers and health plans and physicians is very clear. That's really driving market adoption. We stand above the rest of the market with over 700 board-certified physicians with an average 20 years of experience. We're so far ahead of the rest of the market that we focus more on our leadership position than on the competition. We have over 160 of the fortune 1,000 as clients, and over 20 health plans.
But does that mean Teladoc leads in revenue? He seemed to say so, noting "we've seen explosive growth, with both of our last two years producing triple-digit revenue growth, and we have a massive market in front of us." When I asked if meant other companies don't have as much revenue as he does, he replied, " I would say their revenue is dwarfed by ours."
Is there a comparable out there for Teladoc among other public health companies? "There's not a true comparable given our revenue growth and our massive market opportunity," replied Gorevic, which he followed up with the observation that there are "over 1.25 billion ambulatory care visits across the country," every year, a benchmark for how many patient interactions the company can potentially service.
When I noted the net losses, Gorevic said the company has "a strong path to profit" and that "investors really recognized that we are making an appropriate investment in growth and in our leadership position."
I pressed Gorevic on when he might make the company profitable, but he said "I'm going to pass on the opportunity to give you a definitive time frame for profitability."
Is he concerned that a potential wave of health care IT IPOs will draw away investors' attention? He replied, "Investors will always recognize diffrerentiated stories. The great companies deliver tremendous value for all constituents."
As regards the two different corporate offices, Gorevic clarified that the head office for management is in Purchase, but the company's "largest center for operations," meaning, basically, its cloud computing facilities, is Lewisville.
Why Purchase? Gorevic lives in Westchester, New York, and has "spent most of my adult life in the NY area" and finds that a place like Purchase is "a great area to build a company, especially given it offers great access to capital markets."
Shares of payroll processing services vendor Paychex (PAYX) are up 21 cents, or half a percent, at $47.09, in early trading, after the company beat fiscal Q4 revenue expectations, and was in line with consensus on the bottom line, and forecast this year's revenue above consensus.
Revenue in the three months ended in May rose 8%, year over year, to $692.2 million, yielding EPS of 44 cents.
Analysts had been modeling $690 million and 44 cents.
CEO Martin Mucci called the results a "strong finish," and cited price increases the company was able to implement for its services, which he described as "driven by increases in revenue per check and client base."
Elsewhere in the release, the company describes "Revenue per check improved as a result of price increases, partially offset by discounting, coupled with the impact of increased product penetration."
Added Mucci,
We achieved a milestone of $1 billion of Human Resource Services revenue for fiscal 2015, as strong demand for our comprehensive human resource outsourcing solutions drove double-digit growth. Our sales execution was strong with significant growth in new annualized revenue sold. For the third year in a row, we achieved record levels of client retention.
Mucci also touted the company's cloud computing offerings:
Our introduction of Paychex Flex provides an industry-leading, cloud-based HCM solution that streamlines workforce management through innovative technology and flexible choice of service. In addition, our solutions that assist clients in navigating the complexities of health care reform experienced strong market acceptance.
The company expects its service revenue, the vast majority of its revenue, to rise by 7% to 8% this year, it said, from last year's $2.74 billion. That includes both payroll services revenue and human resources services revenue, with the former expected to rise 4% to 5%, and the latter, 10% to 13%.
The projected range, $2.93 billion to $2.95 billion, which is above the Street's consensus for $2.93 billion.
In response to a gaming Web site's speculation Monday that Microsoft (MSFT) might try to buy chip maker Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), which supplies Microsoft's Xbox game machine with its main processor, Bernstein Research analysts Stacy Rasgon and Mark Moerdler this morning argue the analysis makes no sense and there's no good reason Microsoft would do so.
Rasgon, who has an Underperform rating on AMD shares, and Moerdler, who rates Microsoft Outperform, write that "investors have been asking if Microsoft would purchase AMD given recent 'news' articles," but conclude the analysis, by KitGuru's Anton Shilov, "is not well thought out."
The suggestion Microsoft would save a lot on chips by buying their supplier is flawed, they argue:
It suggests that given Microsoft is paying AMD $100 / Xbox chip (more likely ~$70-$75 currently according to Mercury Research) and that Microsoft has built 12.6M Xbox One consoles to date (i.e.$1.26B in sales to AMD so far); hence a deal would save Microsoft billions (amusingly forgetting that AMD does not produce chipsets out of thin air for free).A "costs saved" thesis, we believe,holds no water. Even if one were to assume that Microsoft would be willing to take on all of AMD's assorted baggage, what they would actually save in such an event is the gross profit they are paying to AMD on the chip purchases. In fact, AMD's gross margins on their console chips arelow (we believe in the low 20′s), hence (on perhaps ~$1B or less in purchases per year) Microsoft might save, AT MOST, $150M-$200M through such an action. And, we note that the current purchase agreement has cost-down already built in, suggesting that the price Microsoft is paying today will continue to go down in the futureat the production costs of chips go down.
Further, the authors opine Microsoft is moving more and more away from hardware products, and that "a direct purchase (with a current enterprise value of ~$4B) would involve Microsoft taking on a hugely loss-making, shrinking, cash-burning business in significant disarray." Not to mention that as the supplier to Sony (SNE) for its PlayStation 4, AMD would drag Microsoft into supplying its own chief gaming competitor.
AMD stock this morning is up 7 cents, or almost 3%, at $2.40, while Microsoft stock is unchanged at $44.15.
Here are some things going on today in your world of tech:
Tech stocks broadly rebounded from yesterday's sell-off, despite ongoing uncertainty over the fate of Greece. The top tech gainer in the Nasdaq was CalAmp (CAMP), which offers Internet of Things-related technology, up 74 cents, or 4%, at $18.26.
However, the shares sold off in late trading after CalAmp reported fiscal Q1 revenue that was just slightly below consensus, and an outlook that was in line with consensus.
Shares of recently public wearables maker Fitbit (FIT) surged $4.95, or almost 15%, to $38.23, after RBC Capital's Mark Sue initiated coverage of the stock with an Outperform rating and a $45 price target, saying its hardware can continue to grow and services are a potential new revenue source.
Shares of Twitter (TWTR) surged $2.01, or 6%, at $36.22, lifted by acquisition chatter, with Facebook (FB) among the rumored potential buyers.
The stock also got a favorable note from Canaccord Genuity's Michael Graham, who wrote Twitter user growth could get a lift from its tie-in with Google (GOOGL) that brings tweets to the latter's search results.
Shares of Apple (AAPL) rose 89 cents, or 0.7%, to close at $125.43, as the company's music service went live. Gene Munster of Piper Jaffray gave the service a "B+" rating and said it can help iPhone sales. Brian White was more intense, saying competitors will have a hard time keeping up with the company's innovation.
Mark May of Citigroup writes that Amazon.com's (AMZN) "Amazon Prime" membership "continues to soar, with members up 53% y/y in 2014 (on a base of tens of millions) despite the program operating in now its 10th year."
More important, he concludes the Prime users are valuable because they create "sandbox" that locks in customers, "with less than 1% of Prime customers visiting Walmart.com after an Amazon shopping session versus 12% of regular shoppers."
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Research firm Gartner said corporate IT spending will decline 5.5% this year, as spending on software programs and mobile devices is outweighed by the decline in the PC market.
Shares of recently public wearables maker Fitbit (FIT) today surged $4.95, or almost 15%, to $38.23, after RBC Capital's Mark Sue initiated coverage of the stock with an Outperform rating and a $45 price target, writing that it is "rapidly gaining share and we see increasing unit/ASP growth with a platform approach."
His first point is that the market, even narrowly defined, is huge:
Fitbit points to a large market, including healthcare, gym memberships and even nutritional supplements into a cumulative TAM of ~$200B. We're taking a more conservative view of the wearable tech market with a focus on activity/fitness tracking, in addition to corporate health wellness spending and a small component of gym memberships related to FitStar. Estimates vary as it's still a rapidly evolving market, yet we arrive at an addressable market of ~$25B for Fitbit growing to ~$50B, which we believe is still a large and growing opportunity for the company.
And growth in the wearables category is now too big to call a fad:
Whether it's Crocs, 3D TVs, the Motorola RAZR, high priced headsets, QR codes, netbooks or even UGGs, bears will point to sharp early adoption of new product categories, which subsequently then quickly subsides. We were initially skeptical as the wearables market started to form several years ago, yet with >90M units sold to-date, the market has reached a substantive base and is evolving from early adopters to a more mainstream adoption. An increasing number of studies are showing the tangible benefits of monitoring an individual's health and the low price of entry may drive further growth with the broader wearables market.
Even though Apple's (AAPL) Apple Watch is a competitor to an extent, he believes,
The Apple Watch is argued to be a major competitive disruption for Fitbit solutions. We recognize the Watch's high-end product quality, design, platform effect as well as the brand loyalty that typically makes Apple a formidable competitor. Nevertheless, we view the Apple Watch as an aspirational product ($350-$1,000+), which is in a different product and pricing segment versus a Fitbit Flex ($100), Fitbit Charge HR ($150) or even the Fitbit Surge ($250). Generally, pricing levels start near $40 on the lower-end for products like Fitbit Zip (list $59.95, $42.95 on Amazon) and then move towards $99 for the Fitbit Flex which competes with Garmin's vivofit2. Prce levels then increase to the $150 range, where we see the Fitbit Charge HR and Garmin's vivosmart. Finally, at $250 there are the newer GPS-enabled watches in the Fitbit Surge and Garmin's vivoactive. Competitor Garmin's product line extends to higher-end watch products with enhanced capabilities ranging from $350-$550, which typically target specific niches such as running, cycling or swimming.
Lastly, he thinks there's lots of potential for people paying for a service offering, even though there's very little from that at the moment:
Fitbit's Premium subscription platform is still nascent and currently contributes about 1% of revenues. One aspect of the subscription business is to ramp its go-to market efforts on increasing its recurring subscription revenues, monetizing an increasing number of its 9.5M active users by driving a higher attach rate for its Premium subscription as well the adjacent FitStar solution. Fitbit currently targets subscription through new customers (paid channels) as well through existing customers (owned channels). Fitbit offers a 30-day free no commitment trial with the option to transition to a $49.99 annual subscription. To help frame the discussion around subscription revenues, we estimate that 30% of the new customers use the 30-day free trial for the Premium service with a conservative 5-7.5% of these 30-day free trials opting to purchase a paid annual subscription for $49.99/year. This accounts for the new subscription billings generated on the subscription platform. In terms of the annual subscriptions up for renewals, we estimate that about 75% of the subscriptions up for renewal end up resigning their annual subscription. Using the waterfall method, we conservatively estimate that subscription revenues could be at a $10M run-rate in 4Q16.
Apple's (AAPL) Apple Music, which went live today, won't make much money for Apple compared to its other businesses, but it could increase sales of the iPhone, according to Gene Munster of Piper Jaffray.
Munster, who rates Apple stock Overweight, with a $162 price target, was on CNBC later in the day explaining his views to host Melissa Lee and the traders.
Munster tried out the service and gives it a "B+" rating:
Overall the experience was as advertised: a seamless integration with streaming radio and the previous iTunes experience with the added option of Beats 1 live radio for music discovery. Our only criticism is the dynamic formulated playlist option in the previous Beats app and other streaming music services like Spotify and Songza did not find the way into Apple Music 1.0. As a footnote, we were among many who experienced the "iCloud Music Library can't be enabled" error message, preventing streaming songs to be added to "My Music." After toggling the "iCloud Music Library" tab on and off five times, we were able to add streaming albums to "My Music.
This won't produce much revenue in and of itself, he writes:
Apple Music matters because music is fundamental to the mobile phone experience. By having a compelling music experience, the hope is Apple will sell more iPhones. As we have previously written, at the $9.99 per month price, even if Apple were to grow its paying streaming music subscriber base to match Spotify's 15 million (which we view as highly unlikely), it would add less than 1% ($1.8 billion) to revenue in 2016. Interestingly, Apple Music will also be available on Android and Windows, which doesn't matter from a revenue standpoint, but could help Apple attract incremental iPhone buyers from competitive platforms.
Apple shares today closed up 89 cents, or 0.7%, at $125.43.
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The use of watercress can be traced back over three millenia to the Persians, Greeks, and Romans and was used for everything from increasing strength to remedying stomach ailments. For weight loss, it is also a natural diuretic that helps alleviate a bloated sensation and excess water retention. Watercress has been linked to a reduction of DNA damage caused by free radicals and a reduction in blood triglycerides. As a member of the cabbage family, watercress boasts an incredible nutrient profile that includes vitamins A, B6, C, E, and K as well as calcium, iron, magnesium, zinc, and the potent flavoniod, quercetin, which serves as a natural anti-inflamitory. Don't underestimate these small, leafy greens the next time you hit the grocery store!
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Police Officers are supposed to protect and serve while on duty, but these cops were all about getting booty (I'm so sorry for that joke, but you deserved it. You. Deserved. It). These seven police officers were busted having police sex (the greatest kind of sex), while on duty, and some of them on company property. Here are the top seven cops caught having sex on duty stories that made the news in recent memory, because there's nothing more gratifying than when cops make mistakes. Especially sexy ones. (Police sex videos and links to the cop sex videos included when available).
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24 Year Veteran Of The Police Force Loses Job After Being Caught Having SexOfficer Scott Guffey was a 24 year veteran of the Tampa Police Department, but he lost his job when he put chasing tail ahead of chasing criminals. When he was confronted with an internal affairs investigation Guffey chose to instantly retire.
It all started when an anonymous person called the police to report an undercover cop going at it in his police car at a park. This caller had been watching this happen for several days and told the police that he watched as Guffey had sex and then returned the next day with the same woman to do it again. The person said they saw Guffey take off his bullet proof vest and gun belt then slip into the back seat of his unmarked car.
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Scuba and free diving, Snowboarding, Surfing, Music and night clubs, fine dining, travel to great places. Being bad. Getting a great unique and exceptional outfit and owning a social space. Attracting attention. Turning heads.
The internets. Its a series of tubes! I read a lot of math books during the last year or so while I was finishing my math degree-books on Abstract Algebra, Topology, Differential Geometry... I actually had to write a book on topology to graduate..
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I control my own time and and finances. I have the freedom to be when I want, where I want, doing what I want. If you are broke, I'm not looking to support anyone. If you are locked in overtime @9-5 and can't make time, thats going to be hard.
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Originally from the UK--Born in Bangor, North Wales. Parents from London, in the Royal Air Force, so we traveled around. I lived a couple of miles from Stonehenge for most of my time in England. We move to the US in 83. Now a naturalized US citizen.
|Agnostic, Atheist, Spiritual but not religious
I don't want to date someone who is going to try to convert me or get me to join some cult or religion. I appreciate mysticism, but I'm an individual and a scientist. I know I don't know a lot, and I like to study the unknown, but not nonsense.
|English, Spanish
|Bachelors degree
|Bachelors degree, Graduate degree, PhD / Post Doctoral
In my youth, I was thrown out of the top undergraduate engineering school in the US, for focusing on event promotion, after 3.5 years towards a dual major. 15 years later I went back and finished. I got my degree in May2011--on the 20 year program.


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The weather had turned from rain to wind as I waited for the ferry to arrive. Watching the caption dock the ferry in high winds was amazing. He made it look like this was an everyday thing guess it probably is.
About halfway through the ferry crossing my damp riding gear starting to feel dry. As luck would have it, this is also when it started raining. But, it was not just rain, it was hard rain with strong winds. Oh yeah, I just love this stuff it reminded me of the hour or two I waited for a ferry in Terra del Fuego, Argentina same stuff, rain and wind.
Luckily, there was a hotel just a block or two from the terminal in St Barbe. Pulling up to the hotel, my heart sank as I saw the line of people trying to book a room. I had heard that other hotels are in the area, but the last thing I wanted was to spend the night, in the rain and wind, looking for a hotel room or putting up a tent. I got the last room in the place! I felt a little sorry for the five people standing behind me but they had cars so I didn't feel that bad.
The rain and wind stopped in the early morning. I decided to have a nice breakfast before heading out to L'Anse aux Meadows Leif Ericson's home away from home.
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This sight was discovered by Heldg and Anne Ingstad. These two has been exploring the area for years looking for Viking settlements and finally found this one in 1960. The settlement was occupied around 990-1030 AD. Today, the site is a
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It was early afternoon when I left L'Anse aux Meadows and started riding south. While riding, I kept seeing road signs that said moose are in the area. The park rangers at L'Anse aux Meadows told me this was day two of moose hunting season and that not only should I keep an eye out for moose, but the hunters would be out in force too. If they are anything like the hunters in the US, I should be more worried about them then the moose!
The last 5 miles or so before I reached Rocky Harbour were the worse. It was getting dark and every mile or so was a sign about how many accidents had occurred this year due to moose or deer. Lucky, I didn't see a single moose or a deer the whole time I was in Newfoundland. It's not that I don't want to see these animals, I just prefer not see them while riding.
Rocky Harbour
Rocky Harbour is a picturesque little town with a nice hotel by the bay. After changing into people clothes, I made my way to the restaurant for a few beers and some great fish and chips. Tomorrow was going to be an early day as I needed to get to the ferry before noon.
The ride from Rocky Harbour to Port aux Basque started of as one of the coldest rides I've taking in a long long time. I had 330km to ride before noon so I got one of those as-the-sun-breaks starts. Again, I was keeping an eye out for moose and deer as these guys would be heading home after a night of food as festivities.
The first hour was the ride was fucking cold. I had my electric vest and heated grips turned all the way up and I still couldnt keep my fingers from freezing. Even sticking my hands on the Beast's jugs didn't thaw them out! But, it wasn't raining or snowing, and I didn't see any moose or deer, so life is good.
I arrived at the ferry terminal about 30 minutes early and was told the ferry had been delayed by 3 hours! I smiled at the attendant, paid my ferry fees and parked the Beast in the moto line for the ferry. Then, I stood next to the Beast for about 30 minutes soaking up the heat of the sun man, it felt nice!
After a warm breakfast, I changed out of my riding gear in the terminal bathroom. This place even had a shower but I figured taking a shower would be too much indulgence. After changing I was more than content to wait outside, in the sun, for the ferry to arrive.
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