China’s growth slows in May. (Reuters) Troubles in Europe and the slowing of emerging economies threaten U.S. company earnings. (Reuters) China’s exports rose rapidly in May, which may help its domestic economy.…
Andy Rubin, one of Google’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) senior engineers, claimed in a tweet that over 900,000 Android devices are activated each day. He did not mention the source of his comments. Android…
NokiaNokia Corporation (NYSE: NOK) has been one of the greatest disasters in telecom and communications out there as far as raw market value lost. Research-in-Motion Ltd. (NASDAQ: RIMM) is a runner-up, and…
US District Court Judge Richard Posner has decided, for the moment, to dismiss two-year old patent litigation involving Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) and Motorola Mobility, now merged with Google Inc.(NASDAQ: GOOG). The…
Gallup has released results of a poll about the attitude of the Chinese toward pollution. Experts have long believed that the People’s Republic cares little about clean water or air when those are…
A rate cut in China prompts some economists to worry that May economic data will be weak. (Reuters) In the wake of its ratings downgrade by Fitch, Angela Merkel says that the…
The Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) App store, and Google’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) for Android face new competition. Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) has opened an app store of its own. Most of the software available at…
Curiosity about the latest update to the iPhone from Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) is reaching a heightened level following the posting of a video today at TheVerge, purporting to show the rear…
Paul Ausick Sprint Nextel Corporation (NYSE: S) already has the iPhone for its namesake brand. Now we have word that its Virgin Mobile USA is following the lead of Leap Wireless International Inc. (NASDAQ:…
Apple’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) best hope to keep from losing substantial market share to Samsung in the United States is to block the distribution of the South Korean firm’s new Galaxy S III. The Samsung…
LinkedIn (NYSE: LNKD) and eHarmony suffer data breaches that allow millions of passwords to be released. (Reuters) Janet Yellen of the Fed argues a slow economy may prompt more easing by the…
Growth in mobile phone shipments this year is expected to be about 4%, the lowest growth rate since 2009. That’s according to the latest global mobile phone tracking data from IDC. Total…
Ron Burkle and his Yucaipa funds have distributed nearly 12 million shares of Barnes & Noble Inc. (NYSE: BKS) to shareholders of two of the funds, according to a filing yesterday with…
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has launched a line of inexpensive touchscreen phones, perhaps to offset its failure in the high end of the smartphone market. Tens of millions of people around the world…
courtesy Facebook Inc.Anyone hoping for a paper stock certificate to show off as a souvenir of ownership in Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) is going to be disappointed. The company has indicated through…
