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Apple bottom line gets a Rockstar boost from patent sale

Apple (AAPL) could see an extra 5 cents per share in earnings in the March quarter from a patent sale last month, Well Fargo Securities said in a research report Tuesday. An entity called Rockstar Consortium on Feb. 3 completed the sale of more than 4,000 patents to RPX for $900 million. RPX is a San Francisco-based patent clearinghouse. Rockstar was formed in 2011 by Apple and five other companies to bid — successfully, as it turned out — against Google (GOOGL) for some 6,000 patents held by bankrupt Nortel Networks. The consortium kept 2,000 patents and put the other 4,000 in Rockstar. Many of the patents dealt with smartphone technologies. Buying the patents ended some lawsuits involving companies that made smartphones that ran on Google’s open-source Android operating system. The sale of the patents was announced in December, as reported by media outlets including the Wall Street Journal….

Analog Devices Upgraded On Apple Design Win

Analog Devices (ADI) chips will enable a new feature for Apple’s iPhones and iPads, an analyst says in upgrading his rating and price target on the chipmaker’s stock. “We believe Analog Devices has secured a win with a high accuracy converter to drive 3D touch in upcoming (Apple (AAPL) iPhones and iPads,” Barclays analyst Blayne Curtis said in a research report Monday. He upgraded Analog Devices stock to overweight from equal weight and hiked his

Apple might expand iPhone family with three new models

After abandoning its one-size-fits-all approach with the iPhone 6 series last September, Apple (AAPL) reportedly will come out with new handsets in three screen sizes later this year. Taiwanese website DigiTimes reports that Apple plans to release three new phones this fall: iPhone 6S, iPhone 6S Plus and a smaller handset now called the iPhone 6C. The first two models would be updates to the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, which have 4.7-inch and 5.5-inch displays, respectively. The iPhone 6C presumably would be an update to the 4-inch iPhone 5C, which the company still produces as a entry-level model. All of the new iPhones will feature fingerprint scanning and NFC technologies for security and Apple Pay applications, DigiTimes said Wednesday. NFC, or near field communication, lets wireless devices communicate with other devices by touching them together or bringing them near one another. Apple traditionally gives its interim iPhone releases…