Micron Technology reported its third-quarter earnings after markets closed Monday night, and the semiconductor maker beat consensus estimates for both earnings per share and revenues.
Singapore-based chipmaker Avago Technologies announced Monday morning that it will acquire U.S.-based chipmaker PLX Techology. The acquisition adds strength to Avago's presence in the storage and networking switch and internal bus market.
Courtesy of Apple Inc.The new iWatch is supposed to be everything the iPad and new versions of the iPhone have not been. It is supposed to transform the consumer electronics industry the…
Douglas A. McIntyre ThinkstockThe way people get their news is changing. In a recent survey, one-fifth now claim that their mobile phone is the primary access point for news. Nearly 40% of consumers of online…
Paul Ausick Wikimedia CommonsOf the 30 stocks in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, a nearly infinite combination of their advances could put the index over 17,000 for the first time. The Dow stands at…
Top Apple suppliers are getting, and will continue to get, gigantic orders to produce components for the eagerly awaited iPhone 6. Skeptics who were writing off Apple a year ago may have…
All indexes are objects in motion, despite their static nature, and the S&P 500 is just like the rest. On the close of trading Friday, there will be the quarterly rebalancing for…
Apple has stores in 16 countries. If Apple's retail operations are to grow significantly, their footprint will need to grow beyond the countries where they are currently located.
Douglas A. McIntyre ThinkstockOver the past six months, daily usage of health and fitness apps has grown by 62%, a growth rate that is 87% faster than the mobile apps industry as a whole. That…
Paul Ausick Amazon.com Inc.At a press event Wednesday in Seattle, Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) CEO Jeff Bezos introduced the company’s “Fire” phone, a 4.7-inch smartphone that is entering a sector dominated by Samsung Electronics…
Smartphones are universally available in the United States for prices that are as low as free, so people who without smartphones almost certainly do not want one or cannot afford one.
Wednesday's expected announcement of a new smartphone from Amazon.com is also reported to reveal that the online retailer has signed a deal with AT&T as the exclusive carrier for the phone.
It is a little difficult to see the logic behind a decision by independent recording labels to refuse to sign a new licensing agreement with YouTube's yet-to-be launched music subscription service.
ThinkstockNuance Communications Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN) owes its fortunes back to the days of Lernout & Hauspie in the 1990s. Now the independent speech recognition leader is seeing its shares surge on reports…
Amazon.com has released numbers showing that Kindle Fire HDX customers who used the Mayday button to get customer service enjoy a response time of an average of 9.75 seconds.
