MarketFoolery: 06.19.2012
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🗓️ 19 June 2012
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Microsoft unveils its Surface tablet. Oracle reports big earnigs. J.C. Penney slips. And Kimberly-Clark hits a new high.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Tuesday, June 19th. |
| 0:03.7 | Welcome to Market Fullry. |
| 0:05.0 | I'm Chris Hill joining me in studio today for Motley full income investor James Early |
| 0:09.2 | for a million dollar portfolio of Charlie Travers and for Motley Full Inside Value, Joe Mager's packed house guys. |
| 0:15.0 | Packed. |
| 0:18.0 | We've got news on Oracle, J.C. Penny, Kimberly Clark. |
| 0:22.0 | We're going to start with Microsoft. |
| 0:24.8 | Microsoft introduced its new tablet, The Surface. |
| 0:29.0 | Among the key features, Charlie, it's got front and rear-facing cameras, a cover that flips down to become a full keyboard and a built-in kickstand which I think we all think is just pretty cool |
| 0:39.4 | Reminds me my huffy back in the day with a keyboard. |
| 0:43.4 | And one of the things we were talking about Joe yesterday that people should be looking |
| 0:47.4 | for in terms of the buildup to the announcement was, you know, what's the price tag going to be? |
| 0:53.7 | Charlie, we're not getting specific numbers. |
| 0:56.3 | Microsoft said that it will be priced comparably to other tablets on the market. |
| 1:02.4 | What's your take? |
| 1:03.0 | Yeah, I think this is a sign more than anything else that the culture of Microsoft has changed. |
| 1:08.0 | They've really learned from Apple and they are paying excruciating attention to detail of the device itself, which is a new thing for them outside of the Xbox. |
| 1:17.6 | They haven't really done this in computing and the consumer experience with the hardware and software package. |
| 1:23.0 | And what they did yesterday was throw down the gauntlet |
| 1:26.0 | and setting the standard for what a Windows tablet will be. |
| 1:29.4 | And all of us have experience with Dell and HP, you know, compact back in the day machines, you know, |
| 1:34.9 | the old beige box PCs that Apple really put a nail in the coffin and that kind of stuff |
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