Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) struggles with its Windows Mobile OS as app developers have been slow to adopt it. (Reuters) Smugglers find it more difficult to make money on Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) products…
HTC was the hottest smartphone company in the world not long ago. Its recent earnings and manufacturing figures show it has lost some of its competitive edge. It has been badly damaged by the…
Douglas A. McIntyre Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) has had trouble in its efforts to get app developers to build products for its Windows mobile OS. Most developers continue to focus on the Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) apps…
In 2011, global shipments of 4G LTE smartphones totaled 6.8 million units. In 2012, that number is expected to grow to 67 million smartphones according to research firm Strategy Analytics. Apple Inc.…
Best Buy Co. Inc. (NYSE: BBY) sold nearly as many iPhones from Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) in the past three months as Apple itself did. In a report from Consumer Intelligence Research…
The CEO of McDonald’s (NYSE: MCD), Jim Skinner, will retire at mid-year. No matter what critics have to say about the danger of fast food and marketing it to children, Skinner has…
ZyngaSocial gaming company Zynga Inc. (NASDAQ: ZNGA), which became a publicly traded company in December, has made a deal to acquire social gaming start-up, OMGPOP, maker of the popular ‘Draw Something’ game.…
International think-tank Ethisphere Institute has just announce the 143 global companies that made the Institute’s 2012 list of Most Ethical Companies. Of the total, 102 are US-based companies, and 23 of the…
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) has finally listened to the call from Wall Street and Main Street to start using its cash for dividends. With a yield of about 1.8% a the launch, Apple…
The new Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPad is not the perfect product it is supposed to be, despite sales of three million units in four days. Consumer Reports says that, under certain conditions, the…
The new Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPad may give off much more heat that its predecessors. (Reuters) JP Morgan (NYSE: JPM) will buy 19.9% of Chinese company Bridge Trust. (Reuters) Strong sales of…
The new Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPad has mechanical and data consumption problems. So far they have not dented the pace of the sales of the iPad which reached three million units in first four…
Markets opened lower this morning and nothing came along all day to move any of the three major indexes above the neutral line. The morning’s report on housing starts was no better…
Some complaints from buyers of the new iPad from Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) led Consumer Reports magazine to run a heat test on the brand new device. Customers had been complaining that…
Paul Ausick An analyst at UBS has said that Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) could sell as many as 12 million iPads this quarter if the company can sustain the daily sales rate of 750,000…
Paul Ausick 