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Apple Captures 80% of Mobile Phone Company Profits (AAPL, SSNLF, RIMM, NOK, MMI, GOOG, MSFT)

Posted: February 9, 2012 at 11:50 am

Investment firm Canaccord Genuity said today in its daily newsletter that Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) garners about 80% of the operating profit among all handset makers. Of $14.4 billion in ...
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What’s Important in the Financial World (2/8/2012) Nokia Fires 4,000, Yahoo! Cuts Chairman

Posted: February 8, 2012 at 6:44 am

The restructuring of the world’s troubled multinationals continues. The trend has been particularly evident in industries like big pharma, where sales have fallen too fast to maintain expense levels. The most recent victim of ...
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Media Digest (2/8/2012) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: February 8, 2012 at 6:43 am

The Greeks try to get a financial aid package while some regional leaders say the eurozone does not need the southern European nation. (Reuters) A House committee pushes through plans ...
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What’s Important in the Financial World (2/7/2012) New Nokia Phone, Toyota Recovery

Posted: February 7, 2012 at 6:49 am

Greece continues to demonstrate that it can teeter almost indefinitely between austerity and the grant of aid packages without a short-term resolution to its sovereign debt crisis. The latest development is that the ...
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HTC: The Latest Victim of Smartphone Wars

Posted: February 6, 2012 at 6:45 am

HTC posted fourth-quarter earnings that were less than impressive. It also forecast a disastrous first quarter. These are signs that HTC is the latest company to succumb to the success of Samsung and ...
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New Sony CEO, No New Future

Posted: February 1, 2012 at 6:48 am

Sony’s (NYSE: SNE) revenue fell 9% in the September quarter and the company posted a loss, one of a long series. The Japanese firm also said that its P&L problems ...
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Only Two Horses Left in Smartphone Race

Posted: January 27, 2012 at 6:38 am

HTC, Motorola (NYSE: MMI), LG and Nokia (NYSE: NOK) might as well curtail their efforts in the smartphone arena. The industry has only two companies left with the ongoing opportunity for ...
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What’s Important in the Financial World (1/27/2012) Apple No. 1 Smartphone Seller, Starbucks Recovery

Posted: January 27, 2012 at 6:37 am

New research from Strategy Analytics shows that Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) was the number one seller of smartphones worldwide, with a 23.9% market share and sales of 37 million units. The results almost ...
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Media Digest (1/27/2012) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: January 27, 2012 at 6:36 am

Greece and its creditors are close to a deal on the nation’s debt swap. (Reuters) A judge rules that some of the Gulf spill costs to be covered by Transocean (NYSE: ...
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Nokia Falls on Weak Supplier Outlook (NOK, STM, ERIC, MSFT)

Posted: January 24, 2012 at 2:03 pm

Shares of Nokia Corp. (NYSE: NOK) are tumbling today following a glum forecast from one of the company’s main chip suppliers. ST-Ericsson, a joint venture between STMicroelectronics N.V. (NYSE: STM) ...
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Media Digest (1/23/2012) Reuters, WSJ, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: January 23, 2012 at 6:33 am

Research In Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) replaces its co-CEOs with the firm’s COO. (Reuters) A Reuters poll shows Japanese manufacturers have prepared for a eurozone break up. (Reuters) Apache (NYSE: APA) ...
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Top Brands in 2011 (KO, IBM, MSFT, GOOG, GE, MCD, INTC, AAPL, DIS, HPQ, NOK, CSCO, TM, AMZN, F, HMC, DE)

Posted: January 17, 2012 at 9:24 am

Brand consultancy Interbrand has issued its latest report on brand value, and while the top five did not change, a gap is opening between the fourth and fifth place finishers.  ...
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The 10 Most Hated Companies in America

Posted: January 13, 2012 at 6:46 am

Customers, employees, shareholders and taxpayers hate large corporations for many reasons. 24/7 Wall St. reviewed a lengthy list of corporations for which there is substantial research data to choose the ...
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LG Agrees to Meet Microsoft’s Royalty Demand (MSFT, GOOG, AAPL, MMI, ORCL, NOK)

Posted: January 12, 2012 at 12:21 pm

Korea’s LG Electronics has agreed to pay a licensing fee to Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) for the right to use Microsoft claims it owns and that is required for all ...
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LG: Even Third Place Is a Hard Place to Be

Posted: January 12, 2012 at 6:28 am

South Korean electronics firm LG is the third-largest manufacturer of wireless handsets in the world. Nevertheless, the company has struggled to make the business successful. It will not pull back from ...
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