8chan/8kun QResearch Posts (8)
#20623030 at 2024-03-25 12:58:55 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25293: Preserved In Time Edition
BREAKING NEWS Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun announces he'll step down after Alaska Airlines door plug disaster and 737 MAX crises: Stocks jump as two other executives also quit
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/yourmoney/article-13235827/Boeing-stock-jumps-news-CEO-Dave-Calhoun-leaving-wake-Alaska-Airlines-door-plug-incident-ongoing-737-Max-safety-crisis.html
Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun is to step down at the end of the year in part of a management shakeup for the aircraft giant.
Calhoun plus the chairman of the board and the head of its commercial airlines business are all leaving amid the Alaska Airlines door plug disater and ongoing 737 Max safety issues. Wall Street responded positively to the news - with shares rising 3.6 percent in premarket trading.
Board chairman Larry Kellner is resigning and will leave at the airline maker's annual meeting in May. Steve Mollenkopf, who has been a Boeing director since 2020, will take over as chairman - and lead the search for a replacement for Calhoun.The planemaker also said that Stan Deal, Boeing commercial airplanes president and CEO, would retire. Stephanie Pope, who recently became Boeing's chief operating officer, will take up that role.
Meanwhile, shares of United Airlines fell about 5% in premarket trade on Monday after the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) move to increase its oversight of the carrier after a series of recent safety incidents.
Last week, the FAA said it would initiate a formal evaluation to ensure the Chicago-based airline was complying with safety regulations.
#20622944 at 2024-03-25 12:42:54 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25293: Preserved In Time Edition
AIRLINES Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun to step down; board chair and commercial airplane head replaced in wake of 737 Max crisis
PUBLISHED MON, MAR 25 20248:00 AM EDT
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/25/boeing-ceo-board-chair-commercial-head-out-737-max-crisis.html
-Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun will step down at the end of 2024 in part of a broad management shakeup for the embattled aerospace giant.
-Chairman of the board Larry Kellner is also resigning and will leave the board at Boeing's annual meeting in May.
-Stan Deal, president and CEO of Boeing Commercial Airplanes, is leaving the company effective immediately.
Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun will step down at the end of 2024 in part of a broad management shakeup for the embattled aerospace giant. Chairman of the board Larry Kellner is also resigning and will leave the board at Boeing's annual meeting in May. He has been replaced as chair by Steve Mollenkopf, who has been a Boeing director since 2020. And Stan Deal, president and CEO of Boeing Commercial Airplanes, is leaving the company effective immediately. Moving into his job is Stephanie Pope, who recently became Boeing's Chief Operating Officer after previously running Boeing Global Services.
The departures come as airlines and regulators have been increasing calls for major changes at the company after a host of quality and manufacturing flaws on Boeing planes. Scrutiny intensified after a Jan. 5 accident, when a door plug blew out of a nearly new Boeing 737 Max 9, minutes into an Alaska Airlines flight.
#18450315 at 2023-03-05 14:43:54 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #22622: It's Over Edition
"5G will have an impact similar to the introduction of electricity or the automobile, affecting entire economies and benefiting entire societies," Qualcomm CEO Steve Mollenkopf once predicted.
It now appears, however, that many of these effects may be negative, according to two recent reports by Swedish researchers Mona Nilsson, director of the Swedish Radiation Protection Foundation, and Dr. Lennart Harddell, an oncologist and professor at Orebro University who has published dozens of papers on the effects of non-ionizing radiation.
"If 5G is not halted," warned Nilsson, "we will probably see more people suffering from microwave syndrome, i.e. deprived sleep, headache, tinnitus, dizziness, fatigue, heart problems, as well as a range of chronic diseases among them, including more cancers and degenerative diseases."
https://justthenews.com/nation/technology/sun-new-study-warns-health-risks-5g-microwave-radiation
#18449377 at 2023-03-05 08:17:15 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #22621:Enter the Comfy Edition
New study warns of health risks from 5G microwave radiation
"If 5G is not halted," researcher Mona Nilsson predicts, "we will probably see more people suffering from microwave syndrome, i.e. deprived sleep, headache, tinnitus, dizziness, fatigue, heart problems, as well as a range of chronic diseases among them, including more cancers and degenerative diseases."
5G will have an impact similar to the introduction of electricity or the automobile, affecting entire economies and benefiting entire societies," Qualcomm CEO Steve Mollenkopf once predicted.
It now appears, however, that many of these effects may be negative, according to two recent reports by Swedish researchers Mona Nilsson, director of the Swedish Radiation Protection Foundation, and Dr. Lennart Harddell, an oncologist and professor at Orebro University who has published dozens of papers on the effects of non-ionizing radiation.
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https://justthenews.com/nation/technology/sun-new-study-warns-health-risks-5g-microwave-radiation
Link to papers
https://loop.frontiersin.org/people/485601/overview
#9962285 at 2020-07-14 22:45:31 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12748: E-Bake
Qualcomm CEO sold: $20.52m-July 13
Steve Mollenkopf is chief executive officer of Qualcomm Incorporated, and serves on the company's board of directors.
Mollenkopf began his Qualcomm career as an engineer and, for more than 25 years, has helped define and implement the company's strategy and technologies. Since becoming CEO in 2014, Mollenkopf has worked to bring the benefits of mobile to new industries through an increasingly diverse product portfolio. Under Mollenkopf's leadership, Qualcomm is driving the development and launch of 5G and revolutionizing the way people connect.
Previously, Mollenkopf served as Qualcomm's president and chief operating officer. In that role, he oversaw Qualcomm's investment in technologies that propelled smartphones into the mainstream, including connectivity, computing, graphics, and multimedia.
Prior to his role as president and COO, Mollenkopf led the company's chipset business, overseeing the launch of 4G technology. He helped make Qualcomm the world's largest mobile chipset supplier and a global leader in LTE technology. He also spearheaded the company's largest acquisition, the $3.1 billion purchase of chipmaker Atheros. The deal helped expand Qualcomm's business beyond smartphones and accelerated the adoption of Qualcomm's technologies and platforms in new segments.
Mollenkopf is a published IEEE author and is an inventor on 38 patents in areas such as power estimation and measurement, multi-standard transmitters, and wireless communication transceiver technology. Mollenkopf is chairman of the Technology CEO Council, a member of The Business Council, a board member for the Semiconductor Industry Association, and a past chairman of the Global Semiconductor Alliance.
https://www.qualcomm.com/company/about/leadership/Steve-Mollenkopf
Qualcomm specializes in the design, development, and marketing of CMDA systems and software. The CDMA technique consists of using a broad spectrum to broadcast code transmissions on numerous mobile communication frequencies. Net sales break down by activity as follows:
- sale of communication systems (60.2%): CDMA systems (integrated circuits, software and systems for wireless voice and data transmission, as well as multimedia functions), and wireless communication and Internet access systems (products intended for data transmission, satellite communications, decrypting activities, etc.);
- sale of licenses (39.8%): intended for manufacturers using CDMA technologies.
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: the United States (11.4%), China (47.8%), Ireland (12.2%), South Korea (9.9%) and other (18.7%).
Number of employees : 37 000 people.
https://www.marketscreener.com/QUALCOMM-INC-4897/company/
https://www.finviz.com/insidertrading.ashx?oc=1434806&tc=7&b=2
#8115461 at 2020-02-12 19:50:20 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #10388: Think Depopulation Edition
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5G will have an impact similar to the introduction of electricity or the car, affecting entire economies and benefiting entire societies."
-Qualcomm CEO Steve Mollenkopf
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The Sprint to 5G
Evolutions in telecom are like clockwork: once a decade something extremely important happens. In the 1980s, the first nationwide mobile network operators (MNOs) appeared (think AT&T and the predecessors to Verizon, Sprint and T-Mobile). In the 1990s, GSM (Global System for Mobile communications) rolled out as a standard that became like the Bible for the industry. At the turn of the century, 3G was the new rage and, about ten years after that, 4G/LTE opened the floodgates for transmitting large quantities of data.
As we rapidly approach the 2020s, another important progression in mobile broadband is underway: the rollout of 5G. The new technology has elicited various responses from business leaders, politicians, consumers and technologists. Some point to the opportunity ahead: faster data speeds, vast applications for the Internet of Things (IoT), and improved coverage in densely populated areas. While others question the economics of it, the applications for it, and the impact it will have on everyday life.
Whatever differences of opinion are out there, one thing is clear: the race to 5G has turned into a full-out sprint.
What is 5G and why should you care?
To take a step back, most devices (cell phones, tablets, computers, sensors, drones, etc.) currently use fourth-generation wireless technology to stay connected - also known as 4G or LTE. 5G, a set of standards still under development, is fifth-generation wireless technology that will allow devices to transmit data at higher speeds and with improved coverage in densely populated areas. To give one simplistic example of an application that is particularly near-and-dear to my heart, think about how hard it is to stay connected at a large sporting event with current wireless technology. Now, think about if you could go to that same sporting event but, instead of waiting minutes or longer for your social media image to post or video to upload, you could be streaming another sporting event live or pulling up anything you wanted on the internet in the blink of an eye. Voilà: you have 5G.
And, while the promises of 5G are potentially groundbreaking for everything from consumer devices, to autonomous vehicles, to augmented reality, to artificial reality, to healthcare monitors, 5G networks are very expensive to deploy because they require a dense construction of towers within a specific area, which demands significant capital expenditure. To make 5G a reality, consumers, companies and countries around the world will have to invest hundreds of billions of dollars to upgrade hardware, phones and networks. This will provide a tremendous opportunity for companies and countries leading the way in these efforts to reap huge economic benefits over the next decade - or longer.
Who's leading the race?
Recently, 5G has become a very topical issue, in large part due to its emergence in the political discourse. In December of 2018, the United States arrested the CFO of Huawei, China's largest telecom hardware provider, for committing fraud and helping evade sanctions against Iran. The news rattled markets and upped the ante in an already tense trade war with China. Since the arrest, the Unites States has been on the offensive, pressuring allies to ban Huawei from building out 5G networks on national security grounds.
More recently, President Trump made it clear that winning the race to 5G is a national imperative, tweeting the following in late February:
"I want 5G...technology in the United States as soon as possible. It is far more powerful, faster, and smarter than the current standard. American companies must step up their efforts, or get left behind. There is no reason that we should be lagging behind on something that is so obviously the future...We must always be the leader in everything we do, especially when it comes to the very exciting world of technology!"
The impetus for the arrest, the tweet, and even news from the Trump 2020 campaign about nationalizing 5G are clear: winning the race to broadly deploy 5G will have significant geopolitical and economic ramifications. Unfortunately, for anyone keeping score on how the Unites States has been doing up to this point, the data is pretty alarming.
Deloitte published the following in a report titled, "5G: The Chance to Lead for a Decade":
The Sprint/T-Mobile merger was approved yesterday so I thought about this in reference to depopulation.
https://blog.evergreengavekal.com/the-sprint-to-5g/
#6557677 at 2019-05-22 14:12:50 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8385: Mnuchin vs Man Maxine. 2 Men Enters, 1 Man Leaves Edition
U.S. judge says Qualcomm violated antitrust law; appeal planned, shares plunge
(Reuters) - Qualcomm Inc illegally suppressed competition in the market for smartphone chips by threatening to cut off supplies and extracting excessive licensing fees, a U.S. judge ruled, a decision that could force the company to overhaul its business practices.
The decision issued late Tuesday night by U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh in San Jose, California, caused Qualcomm shares to plunge 9.5 percent in early trading on Wednesday.
"Qualcomm's licensing practices have strangled competition" in parts of the chip market for years, harming rivals, smartphone makers, and consumers, Koh wrote in a 233-page decision.
She ordered the San Diego-based company to renegotiate licensing agreements at reasonable prices, without threatening to cut off supplies, and ordered that it be monitored for seven years to ensure its compliance.
Qualcomm said it will immediately ask Koh to put her decision on hold, and also seek a quick appeal to the federal appeals court in California.
"We strongly disagree with the judge's conclusions, her interpretation of the facts and her application of the law," general counsel Don Rosenberg said in a statement.
Koh's decision followed a 10-day non-jury trial in January, and is a victory for the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, which has accused Qualcomm in 2017 of violating antitrust law.
The decision followed Qualcomm's April 16 settlement of a long-running legal battle with Apple Inc, where Apple agreed once again to use Qualcomm chips in its iPhones, displacing Intel Corp.
It is unclear whether the sanctions will be challenged by the U.S. Department of Justice, which had asked Koh on May 2 to hold a hearing on that matter if Qualcomm were found liable.
"The possibility certainly exists for Qualcomm to prevail upon appeal" given the government's "somewhat schizophrenic" approach to the case, with the FTC and Justice Department appearing at odds, Bernstein analyst Stacy Rasgon wrote.
The Justice Department was not immediately available for comment on Wednesday.
UNDERMINING RIVALS
Koh said Qualcomm engaged in "extensive" anticompetitive conduct targeting more than one dozen original equipment manufacturers including Apple, BlackBerry, Huawei, Lenovo, LG, Motorola, Samsung, and Sony, often by cutting off or threatening to cut off chip supplies or withholding technical support.
She also said Qualcomm's monopoly power in modem chips enabled the company to sustain "unreasonably high" royalty rates not justified by its contributions to the marketplace.
"With practices that result in exclusivity and eliminate opportunities to compete for OEM business, Qualcomm undermines rivals in every facet," she wrote.
She also found Qualcomm know its licensing practices harmed competition "yet continued anyway" despite government investigations in China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, the European Union and the United States.
"This evidence of Qualcomm's intent confirms the court's conclusion that Qualcomm's practices cause anticompetitive harm because no monopolist monopolizes unconscious of what he is doing," she wrote.
Koh also said testimony from some Qualcomm witnesses "lacked credibility," faulting Chief Executive Steve Mollenkopf and others for giving "long, fast, and practiced narratives" and saying company emails and notes contradicted his testimony.
"It will be difficult for an appellate court to disturb the court's findings regarding the truthfulness of the Qualcomm witnesses and conclusions reached based on those findings," said Barbara Sicalides, a partner at Pepper Hamilton in Philadelphia, specializing in antitrust law.
Qualcomm makes cellphone processors and modem chips,but generates most profits by licensing its technology to mobile phone makers.
Rasgon, the Bernstein analyst, said Koh had indicated at trial she was leaning against Qualcomm, but some investors had hoped her views would be "softened" by the Apple settlement.
"Apparently not," Rasgon wrote.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-qualcomm-antitrust/u-s-judge-says-qualcomm-violated-antitrust-law-appeal-planned-shares-plunge-idUSKCN1SS134?il=0
QUALCOMM Incorporated (QCOM)
-7.95 (-10.23%)
not even 45min in and looky here:
Volume 26,889,485
Avg. Volume 20,272,377
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/QCOM?p=QCOM&.tsrc=fin-srch
#4722896 at 2019-01-12 09:29:10 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #6027: A Huge explosion Edition
Apple demanded $1 billion for chance to win iPhone: Qualcomm CEO
SAN JOSE, California (Reuters) - Qualcomm sought to become the sole supplier of modem chips for Apple's iPhone to recoup a $1-billion "incentive payment" that Apple insisted on, not to block rivals from the market, Qualcomm's chief executive testified on Friday. The payment from Qualcomm to Apple - part of a 2011 deal between Apple and Qualcomm - was meant to ease the technical costs of swapping out the iPhone's then-current Infineon chip with Qualcomm's, CEO Steve Mollenkopf testified at a trial with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission.
While such a payment is common in the industry, the size of it was not, Mollenkopf said. Under the 2011 deal, Qualcomm was named Apple's sole supplier of modem chips, which help mobile phones connect to wireless data networks, in exchange for which Qualcomm agreed to give Apple a rebate - the exact nature of which has not been disclosed. Apple could choose another supplier but it would lose the rebate, effectively increasing the cost of its chips. Antitrust regulators have argued the deal with Apple was part of a pattern of anticompetitive conduct by Qualcomm to preserve its dominance in modem chips and exclude players like Intel.
At a federal courthouse in San Jose, California, Mollenkopf testified that Apple demanded the $1 billion without any assurance of how many chips it would buy, which pushed the chip supplier to pursue an exclusivity arrangement in order to ensure it sold enough chips to recover the payment. Qualcomm was not aiming to block rivals like Intel, he said. "The risk was, what would the volume be? Would we get everything we wanted, given that we paid so much in incentive?" Mollenkopf testified.
Earlier in the day, Apple supply chain executive Tony Blevins testified that it was Apple's practice to pursue at least two suppliers and as many as six for each of the more than 1,000 components in the iPhone. The company stopped trying to place an Intel modem chip in the iPad Mini 2 because losing the rebates on Qualcomm's chips would have made the overall cost too high, he said. "They made it very unattractive for us to use another chip supplier," Blevins said of the rebates. "These rebates were very, very large."
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-qualcomm-Mollenkopf/apple-demanded-1-billion-for-chance-to-win-iphone-qualcomm-ceo-idUSKCN1P600H