In the week of June 22, 2020 Apple kicked off its annual developers' conference, WWDC 2020, at the Steve Jobs Theater on the company's Apple Park campus. Unlike the prior years, this year's WWDC was without a live audience. During the event, major technologies and offerings were unveiled, including Apple Silicon, iOS 14, iPadOS 14, App Clips, watchOS 7, tvOS and macOS 11.0.

During “By Innovation Only” event held at Steve Jobs Theater on Sep 10, 2019 Apple introduced the iPhone 11, 11 Pro, and 11 Pro Max, as well as the Apple Watch Series 5. Apple also announced the release of iOS 13, tvOS 13, watchOS 6, and macOS Catalina. The three new iPhones included the high-end flagship iPhone 11 Pro and 11 Pro Max with Triple-Lens Rear Cameras. iPhone 11 comes with Dual-Lens Rear Camera, Dolby Atmos sound, a faster A13 Bionic chip, and six New Colors. They will come in 5.8 and 6.5-inch screen sizes.

In the week of June 3, 2019 Apple kicked off its annual developers' conference, WWDC,  at the Steve Jobs Theater on the company's Apple Park campus. During the events,  major technologies and offerings were unveiled, including  a new  Mac Pro, a new version of MacOS named Catalina, Catalyst,  to improve portability of apps between Mac OS and iOS, iOS13 version,  and iPadOS.

Slack Technologies, or just Slack, is the most popular workplace chat platform. It has been on AroniSmartInvest radar
since 2017. On June 15, 2017, AroniSmartInvest in Action Sentiment Analysis flagged Slack as one of the most interesting companies (see the sentiment cloud attached) to watch in upcoming days, and probably months and years (see  the article AroniSmartInvest In Action: Slack? Yes, Slack Technologies of June 15, 2017, here)

On Monday  March  25, 2019 Apple kicked off "It's show time" event at the Steve Jobs Theater on the company's Apple Park campus. During the events, 4 major offerings were unveiled: Apple tv+, Apple News+, Apple Arcade, Apple Card.

A new version of  AroniStatMobile™ is available in  App Store®.  AroniStatMobile™ is a quick smart statistical reference tool on iPad®. It is intended for beginners, students of statistics,  and advanced statisticians. 

In May  2020,  AroniSmart™ team, leveraging the Machine Learning, Text Analytics, and Sentiment and Valance Analysis capabilities of AroniSmartIntelligence™,  continued looking at the market sentiment index and events driving the stock market in  Q2 2020 (see here: AroniSmartIntelligence™ in Action: Market Sentiment and Key Stocks in May 2020 ). From the analysis, AroniSmart continued to highlight the key major events impacting the financial, the stock markets, and the economy in general. AroniSmart™ analysis showed that despite the market coming back from the significant deep since early March 2020, the overall sentiment  is negative, across the board.  With this analysis, AroniSmart conttinues to analyze the dynamics in Q2 2020.

In June 2017, AroniSmartInvest™ In Action, based on the analysis with AroniSmartInvest, predicted that Wal*Mart (NASDAQ: WMT) had started to build  a momentum expected to accelerate for the rest of 2017 and 2018. AroniSmartInvest in Action projections were based on the several factors, that we will revisit shortly. In July 2018. 

At the time,  Wal*Mart stock (NASDAQ: WMT) had been soaring. June 2017 Year-to-date (YTD), the stock was up 15%,  from $69.12 on Dec 30, 2016 to  $79.36 on June 9, 2017  and  22% up since February 2017. What happened since then?

Summer is over. The transition period between Summer and Fall is usually an exciting time for investors, as they are back from their hard earned vacation and had had time to reflect on their investment strategy.  A few things are usually awaiting the investors in September. However, 2019, it is different: Spring and Summer have seen wild swings and roll-coaster trends andinvestors did not have opportunity to relax over Summer.

First, the seasaw trends:

•  After a sustained upward trend over 2018 that lasted until the end of Summer,  there was scary dip in 2018 Q4.  The  Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) dropped from 26,648 on Sep 1, 2018 to 23,327 on Dec 1, 2018, or 13%. ^DJI   almost recovered  and 

On April 22, 2019, in the article AroniSmartInvest In Action: IPO season with Soaring IPOs and those to watch, Beyond Meat, Inc. (BYND), the plant-based meat maker, was flagged as one of the potentially successful IPOs planned this year. It was among unicorns,  valued at $1.2 billion.

On May 1, 2019, Beyond Meat become public. On Thursday, it started its IPO at $25 shares. By the end of the day, the share price had increased by $40.75 and reached $65.75, or +163.00%. At some point it reached $71.85.

In October 2018, AroniSmartInvest in Action predicted that Twitter’s stock (NASDAQ: TWTR) will have a momentum in Q4 2018. A momentum that was expected to continue over Q1 2019.  The latest earnings reports confirm the projections, as Twitter continues to address several areas of concerns.  

The IPO season is heating up. The latest major IPOs have included Lyft,  Zoom, and  Pinterest. The key major IPOs, sometimes known as unicorn, or privately owned companies valued at more than $1billion,   to follow include Slack, Uber,  and AirBnB. It is expected that these three IPOs, along with Lyft, Zoom, an Pinterest will determine whether the 2019 IPO season has been a success or a disappointment for both investors and owners, including employees.

AroniSmartIntelligence™  version 10.x, with more optimized Advanced Machine Learning, Text Analytics and  Econometrics models,  and other advanced analytics algorithms is now available in Apple App Store®.  The new version addresses  several requests and feedbacks from our clients and users. Going forward, the version will only be known as AroniSmarttIntelligence™, and includes several modules  of the previous versions referred to as AroniSmartLytics™. The new version follows a new approach of addressing focused analytics with more advanced algorithms to handle evolving business and analytical needs, while covering a broad range of advanced analytics including machine learning, applied statistics and econometrics, and data science.  

AroniSmartLytics™ or AroniSmartIntelligence™  version 9.0.0, with improved Advanced Non-Linear and Econometrics models, improved machine learning and advanced analytics algorithms is available in Apple App Store®. Among the improved Advanced Analytics are Non Linear Models. The Non-Linear Models included the Generalized Non-Linear Models,  Multiplicative models, Generalized Logit Models and Log-Log models.

The non-linear models capabilities address multiple requests and feedbacks from our clients and users, regarding implementing General Non Linear Models, Advanced Analytics and Marketing Mix models in AroniSmartLytics™ Regression, Econometrics, and Time Series module.

AroniSmartLytics™  or AroniSmartIntelligence™  version 9.0.0, with Improved Advanced Non Linear and Econometrics models, improved machine learning and advanced analytics algorithms is now available in Apple App Store®. The prior version focused on Attribution Models and Dominance Analysis, with an emphasis on how predictors contribute to overall performance. Following multiple requests and feedback from our clients and users, the new version of AroniSmartLytics™ pushes the edge further with General Non Linear Models, Advanced Analytics and Marketing Mix models are implemented in AroniSmartLytics™ Regression, Econometrics, and Time Series module.

AroniSmartLytics™  version 9.x, with Improved Advanced Non Linear  and Econometrics models, improved machine learning and advanced analytics algorithms is coming and will soon be available in Apple App Store®. The prior version focused on Attribution Models and Dominance Analysis, with a focus on how predictors contribute to overall performance. Following multiple requests and feedback from our clients and users, the new version of AroniSmartLytics™ will push the edge further with General Non Libear Models, Advanced Analytics and Marketing Mix models  are implemented in AroniSmartLytics™ Regression, Econometrics, and Time Series module.

AroniSmartLytics™  version 8.0.3, with Dominance Analysis and Attribution models, improved machine learning and advanced analytics algorithms is now available in Apple App Store®. Attribution Models and Dominance Analysis, with a focus on how predictors contribute to overall performance measure are implemented in AroniSmartLytics™ Regression, Econometrics, and Time module.

Dominance Analysis  included in AroniSmaLytics (AroniSmartIntelligence) ™ was driven by the increasing importance of digital media advertisement, omni-channels and technolgical advances.

AroniSmartLytics™ Regression, Econometrics, and Time module has implemented Attribution Models and Dominance Analysis, with a focus on how predictors contribute to overall performance measure.

Dominance Analysis  included in AroniSmaLytics (AroniSmartIntelligence) ™ was driven by the increasing importance of digital media advertisement, omni-channels and technolgical advances.