Intel Corporation (INTC) News: CEO’s Belief, Alliance With Qualcomm, Inc. (QCOM) and More

John McAfee resurfaces as ranting video star, mocks McAfee software (DNAIndia)
Eccentric former software pioneer John McAfee is back in the spotlight – lashing out at the anti-virus software that bears his name in a profanity-laced video. McAfee, an American who helped create the anti-virus software industry, generated a media frenzy at the end of last year when he fled his home on a tropical island in Belize, claiming that police in the Central American nation wanted to frame him for murder. He has begun producing a series of YouTube videos, the first of which lampoons the McAfee anti-virus software company that he founded in the late 1980s and that is now owned by Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC). He has not worked for the business in more than 15 years.

Why Intel Stock Price is Poised to Double (MarketOracle)
The world’s largest semiconductor firm’s stock has become one of high tech’s biggest value traps, which isn’t a great place to be for stockholders. But things are changing and tech investors – all investors — should take heed. First let’s look at what it means to be a value trap. On the value side, Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC) has been and continues to be one of the world’s most respected chip firms. And it has the kind of profit margins most hardware companies can only dream about. Not only that, but last year it invested more than $10 billion in research and development, an amount that was seven times that of second-place spender QUALCOMM, Inc. (NASDAQ:QCOM).