And now they’re going to start denying your families a vote when the cameras are off and when the lobbyists have worked what they do? You deserve better than that. You deserve a vote.
On January 16, President Obama issued 23 executive actions to help reduce gun violence, and called on Congress to pass laws that would help keep guns out of the wrong hands and make our schools safer. The President and Vice President have worked for common-sense measures to protect our children and our communities. Both have spoken with families of gun violence, mayors, law enforcement officers, community leaders and Americans across the country.
The landlord of electric car startup Fisker Automotive has filed a lawsuit this week that alleges that Fisker has to pay its April rent on its property in Anaheim, California or leave the premises. In a lawsuit filed in the Superior Court in Orange County, California (embedded below) on April 10, landlord WWG Canyon Corporate Owner says that Fisker owes it $174K for rent for the month of April.
Row of Fisker Karmas
The landlord says Fisker has 5 days to pay or they’ll be evicted. Fisker entered into the lease on December 10, 2010. According to Reuters Fisker could declare bankruptcy as soon as this week. If Fisker isn’t paying its bills, it certainly looks to be getting closer to filing BK. The company laid off 75 percent of its staff last week and was then served with a class action lawsuit for allegedly failing to give those employees 60 days (the WARN Act).
Fisker’s founders have also been asked to attend a hearing on April 24 in Washington D.C., organized by House Republicans. Fisker drew down on close to $200 million in a government loan from the Advanced Technology Vehicle Manufacturing Program. Fisker also raised $1.2 billion in funds over the company’s five and half year lifetime. Fisker was backed by venture firms Kleiner Perkins (Ray Lane was a board member) and NEA, and worked with now-defunct broker Advanced Equities.
T-Mobile made headlines earlier this year for its decision to end carrier subsidies for mobile devices while completely scrapping wireless contracts. But rather than requiring subscribers to spend $600 all at once for a smartphone, T-Mobile allowed qualifying customers to take part in a convenient payment plan. The carrier offers popular handsets such as the iPhone 5 and HTC One for $99 down and payments of $20 per month for 24 months. According to an internal document obtained by Droid-Life, Verizon may be looking to follow in T-Mobile’s footsteps.
Ambitious individuals who want to bulk up on new skills can turn to online learning site Udemy for lessons on everything from web development and programming to accounting and entrepreneurship. And it might not be long before their employers start picking up the tab.
“The general idea here is that, ultimately, employers and managers can work with their team members to develop individual learning plans,” said Dennis Yang, Udemy’s COO.
Since launching in 2010, the company has focused on individuals, with a site that enables anyone to create an online course and then sell it or offer it to students for free. But expanding into corporate training opens up a new and potentially big revenue stream for the company.
Veteran online learning site lynda.com, for example, has built a profitable business by collecting subscription fees from individuals and corporate clients. It’s also an area that other new online learning sites, like Codecademy or Skillshare, could ultimately look to for money-making opportunities.
With the new program, corporate clients can select content from Udemy’s library of 7,000 premium and free courses and provide it to employees through a secure site bearing the company’s branding. They can also use Udemy to create their own online courses and view analytics on employee activity and performance.
To start, the company said it will waive access fees, so corporate clients only pay for the cost of the content. Yang said that, for now, it offers corporations bulk purchasing discounts but will ultimately offer subscription pricing.
Some staff picks of smart, funny, bizarre and cool stuff on the interwebs this week:
Super-duper useful mandatory homework: Get a secure password now. As xkcd explains, most people’s approach to secure passwords (a word bastardized with “random” capital letters and punctuation that’s difficult to remember) is wrong. Now go get yourself a good password. If you need to ask why this is important, watch an informative playlist on hackers.
Scientists reveal a new technique called CLARITY that can render a brain nearly invisible — that is, rid the brain of light-scattering lipids that make it hard to look at in detail. [io9]
A must-watch Frontline documentary on the conflict in Syria, but not like you’ve seen before. A powerful human-interest piece. [PBS]
Read an eye-opening piece by Gina Kolata on the world of sham academic journals. It’s disturbing that even reputable academics get scammed. [NYTimes] It’s becoming increasingly difficult to parse what’s legitimate on the interwebs, as we learn from Markham Nolan’s talk on false Internet stories. Here’s a useful guide to some predatory open-access journals.
We’re a little late on this one, but The Invisible War is a harrowing, Academy Award-nominated documentary about rape in the U.S. military. (Did you know, for example, that 25 percent of U.S. servicewomen don’t report their rape because the person to report to is their rapist?) Watch the documentary »
Become a better thinker by applying Bayesian reasoning. [io9]
A riveting data visualization animation of all the drone attacks in Pakistan since 2004. [Pitch Interactive]
A slightly odd story about Rami Abdul Rahman, basically the one-man team behind the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which produces the main casualty reports coming out of the Syrian conflict. [NYTimes]
In that interview, we learn that the 72-minute-long film was written in 3 days and shot in 5. Talk about production speed that Steve Jobs could be proud of.
In the interview, Hord talks about the genesis of the project – basically the staff was joking about how many Steve Jobs biopics Hollywood was churning out and someone suggested that Funny or Die just make their own feature, as a joke.
“At a certain point, you can only laugh at your own jokes so much before, as a company, you sort of have to call your own bluff and do it,” says Hord.
Hord says that Funny or Die just wanted to do the first Steve Jobs movie, and in that they have succeeded.
Check out the interview for some more info on the film, including the fact that Justin Long (who plays Jobs) learned the 81-page script in just a few days.
Ad.ly is a Beverly Hills firm that charges brands to obtain social media endorsements from the likes of Mariah Carey and Kim Kardashian. But since its new CEO came on board in March 2012, the four-year-old firm has come to rely less on celebrity tweets for its business model.
According to Ad.ly CEO Walter Delph, the firm had trouble in the past obtaining steady revenue because many brands used it for a one-and-out campaign. Now, he said, Ad.ly has found a second form of income through licensing the company’s analytics platform — tools that can help brand track how mentions on Twitter and Facebook ripple down from a celebrity to their fans.
“We had an activation business, but we didn’t have a data management platform. Now, we do. … It’s a logical extension of the celebrity tweet business,” said Delph in an interview in San Francisco this week. Delph, who was formerly a SVP at News Corp’s Digitam Media division, added that Ad.ly now has more than 10 repeat customers and is on pace to generate around $5 million for the year.
Adly’s decision to turn towards licensing also amounts to an admission that the company is pivoting, and that basing a social media business solely on celebrities is not not viable. This is likely due to the fact that Twitter and Facebook mentions are typically wrapped up in a larger endorsement package — tales of a one-off tweet from Charlie Sheen selling for $9,500 are more the exception than the rule.
Delph also added that social media marketing is a challenge the platforms typically don’t convert into immediate sales.
“You can’t expect me to sell a truck right on Twitter,” said Delph, adding that Ad.ly in the past has done a poor job of explaining how to measure ROI from social media.
While the focus on its analytics tools provide a way to persuade marketers of the value of social media, the new stragegy could also make it hard for Ad.ly to stand out from the dozens of other firms that offer social media listening platforms for brands. In response, Delph said Ad.ly is distinct because it can not just monitor social media ROI but also “activate” it through the celebrity tweets.
Delph adds that the overall social endorsement business is getting stronger because of richer media capacity built into platforms like Twitter.
“If you can show anything beside written word, it’s worth much more. A photo brings 3-4 times the performance.”
Skylar Tibbits makes things that assemble themselves, with potential large-scale applications from self-adjusting water pipes to self-assembling structures in space. At his recently founded Self-Assembly Lab at MIT, he’s pioneering 4D printing — using smart materials to make objects that change shape and evolve. Here, he explains how 4D printing works, and describes his journey from architect to artist to leading inventor of self-assembly technology.
Why is this process called 4D printing?
The reason we call it 4D is because the object changes over time. So whereas 3D printing simply creates an object,Skylar Tibbits: The emergence of "4D printing" the 4D-printed object is printed using smart materials that are activated by various sources — like heat, water, current, sound, pressure, and so on.
Objects are printed with the multi-material printer using a combination of smart material and standard 3D printing material — currently, Stratasys’ Connex highly precise multi-material 3D printers can print two materials — in whatever shape you want. Then when you activate the object, it changes: swells or contracts or moves.
Right now the material we’re using is a polymer-based water-absorbing material that expands 150%. For the non-4D material, Stratasys has a whole line, everything from soft rubber to plastic. Right now we use their hard black plastic, just a standard plastic material, alongside the 4D material as the activator.
So the expanding material does one thing and the rigid material holds the shape, is that right?
Right. The rigid material gives it structure and constraints. If you have two pieces and you want them to fold, how do you make it go the right direction? That way or another way? Well, you put a very thin piece of rigid material on the side you want to fold. So that means that the expanding material is going to expand, and that super thin material is going to bend. And so this basically creates a force. But then the question is, how do you make it so that the bend stops at the correct angle? So you add rigid limiters. You also use the lengths of the segments to achieve the shape you want. The rigid material is the code, and the expanding material is the energy.
It’s just become a really elegant process from start to finish, where my hands are out of it the whole time. I build intent, but the object is manufactured as a streamlined piece. You dip it in water and it goes by itself.
Video above: A demonstration of 4D Printing, the “MIT” self-folding strand in action.
The first time you saw the test object fold by itself in water, were you incredibly excited?
I had one surprising moment. I set it in water, and I had my camera set up doing a time-lapse — the process is so slow you can’t see it moving in real time. A few hours later I came back and it was folded. And I thought, “Oh, cool. It folded. It works.” But then I looked at the time-lapse and went, “Whoa!” — because it looks like a live worm. It’s not just click, click — MIT. It takes weird dynamic forms to get there. So that was cool.
How did you originally connect with Stratasys?
It’s actually a funny story. I was at a coffee shop, in Cambridge, right across from MIT, and the person across from me had a shirt on that said Objet — the 3D printing company that later merged with and became Stratasys. We started talking, and I introduced her to the department of architecture at MIT. I showed her the work I’m doing, saying, “I wish there was a way we could print this stuff so that we could embed the energy directly into it.” She connected me with their materials science division, which was developing this material that expands in water. Together we realized this wasn’t just a weird material that we don’t know what to do with, but a new paradigm for what you can print.
You are the only person working on designs for this material and this particular process. So do you get all the credit for 4D?
Well, Stratasys developed the materials and the machine, so this wouldn’t be possible without them. I had the vision of how this would be a real change in the game of 3D printing. This only became a reality once we produced the prototypes and demonstrated that it is possible. But I think 4D printing is something that in the future anyone can do. If the materials were on the market, everyone would be 4D printing tomorrow.
But you need the design knowledge.
That’s true. There’s the whole democratizing-design world, and they’re trying to make it so anyone can 3D print anything. This falls into that realm. It’s a little bit more complex because you need to be smart enough to figure out, say, if you want to make a fairly complex and intricate shape, you need to then be able to figure out what’s the pattern for it to go from here to here — and that’s not always easy. Going from a line to a circle is pretty straightforward. You can make a strip, and you can make a standard interval, and it will curl uniformly. But if you want to make something more intricate, you need to have the tools to be able to do that.
Video above: A demonstration of a self-folding sheet, created at the MIT Self-Assembly Lab.
So what now? Are you thinking up ways to apply this technology to designs?
Yes. So far we’ve demonstrated that a one-dimensional form folds into a three-dimensional form. One goal is to go as complex as possible. I’m trying to do a 50-foot long strand that folds into eight inches: it’s called the Hilbert curve — a mathematical curve. So that would demonstrate that we can do highly simple first parts that lead to very complex other structures. And it also may have implications for studying protein folding, how they can go from one configuration to another, how they don’t tangle, and what design parameters are essential. But I also want to demonstrate all of the other low-hanging fruit — a flat 2D sheet that folds into a rigid 3D structure. A 3D object like a cube that turns into a sphere. We know we can do it — we just haven’t. There are a ton of these.
After we’ve proved we can build complex things and we can do all geometric transformations, then we can start to use the technology for more real-world applications. Then we will need to push the materials further and make sure we have the right properties so that it is scalable. Part of me is just fascinated by pushing the boundaries of what we know, what’s possible, what materials can do, and how much information you can embed. But I also want to make large-scale things and solve real-world problems with them.
You’ve talked to us about applying self-assembly technology to adaptable infrastructure like piping and bridges, low-energy manufacturing, and passive energy construction techniques. What about potential applications for space?
We have been working with Shackleton Energy as a design advisor to help build space infrastructure systems using these principles. They are looking to build a whole pipeline space infrastructure for fueling and energy extraction. The idea is to provide an infrastructure for all of the private space companies, so that they don’t have to keep going back and forth, but stay in space longer. So they need an energy supply chain, module components and smart ways they can connect to one another.
The opposite paradigm is the International Space Station: it comprises extremely complex and expensive technology made all around the world, coming together in complex ways. Nearly no module is the same. In contrast, we want to develop simple systems that can be shipped, then expand in orbit and are reconfigurable. These would be standard components that come together in many, many ways, so you have massive design possibility with a minimum number of components.
Adaptable infrastructure: pipes that expand and contract according to need. Photo: MIT Self-Assembly Lab
Why is 4D — and self-assembly — necessary?
The short answer is that I don’t like manual labor. People always comment that my work reduces energy consumption. But I never say that; I say it uses alternative energy sources like heat, shaking, and so on. The extra energy required to make smarter parts that self-assemble could be offset by reducing the expensive and huge amount of energy used in construction.
Well, 4D radically modifies that argument, because the manufacturing side would also be streamlined. There isn’t excessive labor to make the parts “smart”: I don’t have to embed magnets in every single piece, for example. It goes right from design to reality — and it doesn’t stop at reality. Smart materials can even continue to adapt — changing shape or texture. But the manufacturing process is streamlined.
How did you become interested in self-assembly in the first place?
When I was a kid, I wanted to be an artist. I was always drawing, and also making stuff. And I was into photography in middle school and high school. But somehow I thought architecture was a lucrative art form. Architecture was all software-based, but at a certain point, you get to the limits of software. I started learning how to write code. And the code is what led to the sculptures.
Generative art was a brand-new field at the time. At the same time, digital fabrication began. It was all brand new: fab labs were popping up, architecture schools were getting robotic fabrication machines, and laser cutters and 3D printers. Suddenly there was this code explosion, which meant that people like me could make stuff that no one else could make. It was the students that were pumped about this new technology. “Wow, we have all these crazy design tools and digital fabrication tools. Now we can build stuff that hadn’t been possible before — and with one percent of the budget.”
Tibbits’ first installation, “Flat Panel Quadrilateral Tessellations,” 2008.
What was your big break?
I got a huge opportunity to do an exhibition in Philly in 2007, at the Real World house in this old bank. It’s two floors, balcony. They offered me the whole space. I pitched to do something called “Scripted by Purpose,” which was a collaboration with TED Fellow Marc Fornes. The idea was using scripted processes for design. And so we brought anyone from around the world that we knew that was doing generative design at the time.
We had architects, but we also had Vito Acconci there, Marius Watz and Francois Roche, and other well-known architects, artists and designers. We were the first ones in the design world to put together such an exhibition, so people started inviting us to do exhibitions around the world. For us, it was an opportunity to make stuff in ways that people weren’t making before. And we could compete. Big architects were doing wild projects with billions of dollars. We could do wild geometries in smarter ways, because we could write code and run machines ourselves — for little money. But it was manual labor — people fabricating, assembling, connecting things, finishing the parts. Eventually the labor side of it made me realize that there had to be a better way. Not just code to design stuff, not just code to make stuff, but code to assemble stuff as well.
Somewhere in there, I joined MIT Design Computation Group and started working on programmable matter and robotics, artificial intelligence, and eventually the biology stuff crept in. That showed me possibilities of construction at other length-scales that used computational processes and embedded assembly information. That led to the research on self-assembly!
So you did ultimately get to be an artist.
Yes, I am an artist, but I also think of myself as an architect. My art was always trying to prove an architectural point. My first installation was called “Flat Panel Quadrilateral Tessellations.” It basically said that we can make complex, doubly curved surfaces, out of flat pieces of material. So it’s super cheap and super easy to build, all through code and coded machines.
For me, the most exciting challenge is not to do the same thing ever again, or to keep critiquing myself each time: how could it be smarter, how could this thing be more streamlined or do things that we didn’t expect? Each time I start something new, I want to do something I couldn’t have imagined was possible.
How has the TED Fellowship had an impact on your life and work so far?
The TED Fellowship has given me the opportunity, network and confidence to start my own lab at MIT, the Self-Assembly Lab. I likely wouldn’t have been able to take that trajectory otherwise. TED has also really been a research testbed and an opportunity to experiment. I’ve been fortunate enough to exhibit work during three of the four conferences that I’ve attended — putting the work out there, getting feedback, getting exposure and using it as a stage for development. I think this has really been a unique experience, much more tangible and direct than I could have imagined.
Video above: Watch Tibbits’ recently posted TED-Ed animaation: “Self-assembly: The power of organizing the unorganized.”
This week, Jenner attended a private viewing of artist Russel James’ photography exhibit, of which her image is a part. E! News caught up with her at the viewing and asked her about where her career will be going in the future. In response to a question about whether she would ever want to be a Victoria’s Secret model, Jenner said, “It’s always been kind of a dream of mine. It’s a very great thing to do. I don’t know. It’s something I’d love to do.”
In other recent Kendall Jenner news, the aspiring model ran into the omnivore’s dilemma this week. On Thursday she posted a video showing off the massive amount of food stored in her pantry while complaining that she can’t decide what to eat:
Stephen Hawking made a career out of investigating and explaining the cosmos to the layman. Now the renowned physicist is telling us that we need to get off the planet and (relatively) fast.
The AP reports that Hawking was recently touring the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center where research on steam cells is being conducted. At the event, the physicist said that humans won’t survie another 1,000 years on Earth unless we escape “beyond our fragile planet.”
Noted scientists have taken the same stance, though not as extreme, over the years arguing that humanity as a species should explore the cosmos not only to preserve the species, but for economic purposes as well.
Here’s Bill Nye arguing that we should be exploring space for economic benefit:
Here’s Michio Kaku talking about the chances of mankind destroying itself in the next 1,000 years:
Earlier today, two Vice Presidents met in the West Wing of the White House. Hear more about it in the latest installment of Being Biden, an audio series from Vice President Biden:
Vice President Joe Biden jokes with Julia Louis-Dreyfus of the TV show, “VEEP,” as she sits at his desk in the Vice President's West Wing office at the White House, April 12, 2013. (Official White House Photo by Lawrence Jackson).
This has been a pretty bad news week for Microsoft and we should probably expect a lot more of them going forward. Barron’s points us to a new note from Merrill Lynch software analyst Kash Rangan, who thinks that PC sales haven’t come close to bottoming out yet. In fact, Rangan estimates that “if roughly 50% of consumer PCs (20-25% of total) represent low-end devices which are at risk of cannibalization by tablets, then PC units need to decline by 20-25% to get to trough growth.” While this will certainly be a trying time for Microsoft and its OEM partners, Ragnan sees things stabilizing after consumers are through switching out tablets for new PCs because Microsoft still has a “stable and nicely growing enterprise business.”
It looks like some of the weaker of the animal kingdom are starting to rise up. Not only did a beaver make headlines for killing a man, but now a goose is trying to mix it up with a Gorilla.
The Sedgwick County Zoo in Wichita Kansas has uploaded a video of a Goose going after a gorilla to YouTube, and it’s starting to go viral.
Don’t expect to see much of a fight. The gorilla runs away like a coward and the goose flexes its proverbial muscles. The gorilla can still rest easy knowing that most of us humans would quickly still run away from him (or her).
Sedgwick County Zoo dubs the video simply “another great moment captured by Zoo staff.”
It’s not just the big boys like Google, Facebook and Netflix that are building their own gear these days. CloudFlare, the popular web-performance and security startup is also getting into the act with its own custom-built server and, possibly, switches.
CloudFlare Founder and CEO Matthew Prince detailed the problems the company is trying to solve in a blog post earlier this week. In a nutshell, although its network edge that spans 23 data centers is (usually) capable of handling most traditional DDoS attacks, there are a couple types of attacks that target different bottlenecks at the local area network level. In these cases, the 1 Gbps networks ports on CloudFlare’s servers can get overwhelmed, as can the processors themselves.
Of course, when you’re running a multitenant cloud-based service like CloudFlare is, these types of events take on a different urgency:
“Both these problems are annoying if it affects the customer under attack, but it is unacceptable it spills over and affects customers who are not under attack. To ensure that would never happen, we needed to find a way to both increase network capacity and ensure that customer attacks were isolated from one another.”
So, over the course of 2012, CloudFlare spent its time working on what it calls “Project Bondage.” Essentially, that meant configuring the individual ports to look and act like a single port capable of handling much more bandwidth, and then reworking the CloudFlare operating system to prevent external CPU-level attacks from affecting internal workloads.
But the company didn’t stop there. Prince wrote in the blog that CloudFlare’s next-generation servers feature 10 Gbps ports to significantly increase network bandwidth even without port bonding. In an email, he confirmed that rather than use off-the-shelf servers as it has been doing, CloudFlare’s “G4″ servers were designed in tandem with and built by Quanta, the same company that builds Facebook’s servers as well as servers for other large web companies.
CloudFlare still uses off-the-shelf Juniper switches but, Prince added, “[W]e’re tinkering.”
This new ad from Kmart is guaranteed to give you the giggles. Sure, it’s the 8-year-old kid who just farted in church giggles, but it’s ok to give in to your immaturity once in a while, right?
Kmart is advertising that you can ship things right from the store. That means you can ship your pants. While standing in Kmart. So many people have shipped their pants standing in Kmart, that they all join in to make it known.
YES! I SHIP MY PANTS JUST NOW!
I think you can see where this is going.
Not only did Kmart create one of the best ads of 2013 so far, but they also were able to create a ton of social media buzz with the Twitter hashtag #shipmypants
Google has apparently acquired Behavio, which received a fair amount of attention at SXSW last year. The startup produced FunF, an “open sensing” framework for Android.
This is described as “an extensible sensing and data processing framework for mobile devices…the core concept is to provide an open source, reusable set of functionalities, enabling the collection, uploading, and configuration of a wide range of data signals accessible via mobile phones.”
GigaOm confirmed the acquisition with Google, though says Google objected to the term “acquisition” simply electing to indicate that the team would be joining Google.
Behavio has posted the following message on its site:
We are very excited to announce that the Behavio team is now a part of Google! At Behavio, we have always been passionate about helping people better understand the world around them. We believe that our digital experiences should be better connected with the way we experience the world, and we couldn’t be happier to be able to continue building out our vision within Google.
We would like to thank all of you who have followed and supported us and our work over the past few years — from academia, through our open source project, and into our work at Behavio. In addition, we would like to express our appreciation to the Knight Foundation as well as the organizers and judges of the SXSW Accelerator, who believed in our vision and in us, and gave us the push that started the wild and amazing ride of the past year. Finally, thanks to all of you who have given us your advice, your support and, most valuably, your time.
In the comings days we will be shutting down our closed alpha program. Going forward, we will continue to maintain the Funf open source project, and look forward to working on exciting things within Google.
Facebook Home is live in the Play Store. If you need a refresh on what Facebook Home is: check it out here and here, and come on back. The app only works for a handful of devices at the moment, but I would expect the numbers to grow soon. The only device I have that can even download it on is the Asus Transformer TF300T. However when I click on the app, I get: “Thanks for installing Facebook Home. Your device is not supported yet. You’ll get a notification when Facebook Home is ready for your device.” There are probably going to be a few more devices that get the same treatment, but at least it shows that work is being done to get the app on more devices.
Enough of the yapping head on past the break for my denial screenshot and the link. (more…)
Twitter is all about gut reactions and snappy statements. The very nature of the social network requires that people have access to it all times. This is leading to an increasing number of people using Twitter on mobile devices.
In a new survey conducted by Strategy Analytics, the firm discovered that Twitter users are migrating from the desktop to mobile devices at an ever increasing pace. The latest report – “Social Network Profile: Who Uses Twitter?” – surveyed 6,500 people from the U.S. and Europe. The survey found that the number of people sending out tweets from a desktop computer decreased from 77 percent to 64 percent in just eight months. During the same period, the number of people tweeting from mobile devices increased from 56 percent to 71 percent.
“The immediacy of Twitter communications requires devices which are close to hand at every waking moment,” notes David Mercer , VP, Digital Consumer Practice. “By definition this suggests mobile phones and tablets should be preferred devices for Tweeting and the survey evidence points clearly in this direction.”
Interestingly enough, the survey found that mobile Twitter use is highest in the UK with the U.S. coming in second. Italy, France and Germany round out the top five respectively. As for demographics, the survey found that Twitter is most popular among the affluent, as well as teenagers and students.
Apple (AAPL) is set to post its results for the second fiscal quarter later this month and sell-side analysts are getting antsy yet again. RBC Capital Markets’ Amit Daryanani on Friday maintained his Outperform rating on Apple shares, but he trimmed his price target to $550 from $600 ahead of what he thinks may be a disappointing quarter for iPhone sales.
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