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Welcome to Industry Focus, the podcast that dives into a different sector of the stock market every day.

It is Friday, January 25th, and we're talking about the big bad apple supplier

that's grabbing headlines.

I'm your host, Delne Lewis, and I'm going on Skype by fool.com's Evan New.

Evan what's up? Not much, getting ready for earning season.

Earning season, one of our favorite four times of the year.

It's so nice that we get it quarterly instead of once a year

like some of the winter holidays, huh?

Yeah, it's about to start getting pretty busy.

And actually Qualcomm, the company that we're going to be talking about today, should be reporting.

I believe in the next week, week and a half or so.

But there's been plenty of news ahead of this earnings release and that's what we're going

to be spending a lot of our time

talking about today. Yeah they've been at trial all month with the FTC so it's a pretty

big trial a lot of interesting information coming out a lot of salacious headlines.

Before we get into that news, this is a company that we've discussed plenty on the show,

but typically when we've done it, we've talked about it because they are an apple supplier and

almost all those conversations have kind of funneled up into a larger

conversation about Apple. Today we're gonna focus specifically on Qualcomm

because there's a lot going on with this company

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