Why Apple is Winning: Innovation, Opportunity and Execution

By Richard Shaw (QVM Group): With the current decline in Apple shares (AAPL), there is a debate about whether it is a calamity or an opportunity.

By Bret Kenwell:We all have Apple's (AAPL) booming success on our radars. It has had stellar performance quarter after quarter, and this last quarter was a blowout. It crushed expectations by selling 37 million iPhones, while easily beating other estimates with the iPad, iPod and Mac products.

It is more than fitting that the day after the opening of The Bow, the 59-storey Calgary building that’s the largest of its kind west of Toronto, the project’s developer was also setting a record of its own. Bow Centre Street LP, a debt financing arm of H&R REIT, priced a $300-million 10-year 3.797% secured borrowing. (Lenders have recourse limited to the property.)

Apple's share of the smartphone market does something weird to people that blog about/love Apple products.

SOCHI, Russia (AP) — The cost of the 2014 Winter Games in the Russian city of Sochi now stands at $51 billion, making it the most expensive Olympics in history.

1 winning ticket for Saturday's $338M Powerball jackpot sold in NJ; 6th largest jackpot ever DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A single ticket sold in New Jersey matched all six numbers in Saturday night's drawing for the $338.3 million Powerball jackpot, lottery officials said. It was the 13th drawing held in the days since a Virginia man won a $217 million jackpot Feb. 6.