NokiaNokia (NYSE: NOK) will soon launch its Lumia 710, a Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) mobile powered smartphone, in the U.S. Sales in the first week may well determine the fate of the phone with…
Europe has cobbled together what appears to be a solution to the sovereign debt crisis. The markets do not believe in its efficacy. Most shares traded down once details were release. But…
Jon Corzine of MF Global says he does not know where much of the firm’s funds went. (Reuters) Samsung wins the legal fight over whether it can sell its tablet PC in…
Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) and General Electric Co. (NYSE:GE) have announced a 50-50 joint venture to compete in the healthcare software industry. In a joint press release, the two companies said: he…
Many American companies have done incredibly well this year. A number posted extraordinary financial results in 2011. Others have launched products that revolutionized markets. Of course, many big public corporations also did…
By 2013, sales of new smartphones using the HTML5 standard in the phone’s browser will total 1 billion, up from 336 million this year. The recent decision by Adobe Inc. (NASDAQ: ADBE)…
The board of Olympus may resign by late February. (Reuters) China says its annual rate of growth slowed between October and November. (Reuters) Congress pressures the CFTC for stronger regulation after the…
Eurozone on notice. The situation in Europe, so promising just days ago, took a sharp turn for the worse. S&P put 17 nations in the euro area on credit watch and said it…
Tomorrow’s launch of an upgrade to Xbox Live from Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) is the latest shot in the battle for control of US TV sets. The Redmond giant isn’t the only…
Samsung shares rise after its victory in the U.S. against Apple’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) attempt to block its Galaxy tablet from the U.S. market. (Reuters) HSBC data show that China’s PMI slowed considerably. (Reuters)…
SAP (NYSE: SAP) will buy cloud computing company SuccessFactor (NYSE: SFSF) for $3.4 billion. It is a move that will get the Germany company into a business dominated by Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), Google…
Most of America’s largest companies are also among its oldest companies. In fact, many of the Fortune 100 firms are more than a century old. Almost none were founded in the past…
The sovereign debt problem in Europe gets more complex by the hour. The European Central Bank said it may intervene to buy paper issued by nations that are economically weak. This should…
Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) has released its annual list of most searched terms for 2011. Yahoo has been the target of takeover speculation since the board dismissed CEO Carol Bartz three months ago.…
Douglas A. McIntyre It was just yesterday that demand for notebooks was shown to be higher in 2012 versus 2011 from DRAMeXchange, but now some new data is out from J.P. Morgan that may be…
