Each year, the U.S. Patent Office and Trademark Office awards hundreds of thousands of patents to American and global companies. Last week, IFI Claims Patent Services, a producer of patent databases, released its top…
China’s economy expands at a better-than-expected 8.9% in Q4 and area markets soared. (Reuters) Walmart (NYSE: WMT) appoints a former CBS (NYSE: CBS) digital executive as head of its digital operations. (Reuters) Disapproval…
Samsung, one of the world’s largest electronics companies and the No.2 market of smartphones showed what large profits and a strong balance sheet can do for a firm’s ability to invest in…
Motorola Mobility (NYSE: MMI), soon to be bought by Google (NASDAQ: GOOG), reported that it has won a preliminary round against Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) in a dispute over three patents. The patent wars…
The tension over the financial crisis has risen at an astonishing rate in just three days. Downgrades of the sovereign debt of several nations have rattled the markets. But the most immediate trouble…
The news Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPad 3 will be released in March, according to several media reports. The machine will likely connect to super fast 4G LTE networks. These are being deployed by Verizon Wireless…
For the first time ever, Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) has released a list of its 156 suppliers in connection with the company’s release of its supplier responsibility audit. The supplier list is…
Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) has joined the Fair Labor Association (FLA). The company will allow open, independent inspections of its suppliers. The labor practices of suppliers like Foxconn have been bought into question. .The…
Douglas A. McIntyre Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) doesn’t often make mistakes like this: the introduction of the company’s new iPhone 4S in China had to be suspended because the stores ran out of product. Now…
Paul Ausick Layoffs have surged recently. There is no telling why they happened all at about the same time. Drug giant Novartis (NYSE: NVS) said it will cut nearly 2,000 jobs. Food Lion will shut…
TPG may invest $1 billion in troubled Olympus. (Reuters) President Obama to ask for a $1.2 trillion increase in the national debt ceiling. (Reuters) China’s foreign currency reserves drop to $3.18 trillion,…
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 makers of…
Fourth quarter sales of desktop computers in the US fell by nearly -6% year-over-year according to the latest estimate from Gartner Inc. (NYSE: IT). US sales were weak for leading vendors Hewlett…
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 cellphone manufacturing,…
Shares of Research in Motion Ltd. (NASDAQ: RIMM)have lost about -75% of their value in the past 12 months, but the company is trying to make up some of the loss in…
