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…
Most electronics manufacturing services outfits, EMS companies, have recovered handily from the lowest points in November, but most of these remain significantly off of their highs over the last year. Some may…
Morgan Stanley says that Nokia (NYSE: NOK) may sell as many as 37 million Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) Windows powered smartphones. It would be major rebound in the fortunes of the world’s largest handset…
Dell’s (NASDAQ: DELL) habit of coming to market with products well after its competitors do continues. Reuters reports that the PC company will launch a tablet later this year. Dell management says…
Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) to launch its first tablet PC late this year. (Reuters) NYSE Euronext (NYSE: NYX) and Deutsche Boerse will try to save their merger with a case for EC regulators. (Reuters)…
It has been a busy day at Eastman Kodak (NYSE: EK). Early in the morning, the company announced a major reorganization. In the afternoon, Kodak announced patent suits against Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL)…
Douglas A. McIntyre The T-Mobile USA unit of Deutsche Telekom AG (OTC: DTEGY) doesn’t have a second offer pending now that the $39 billion deal with AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) has been killed. Verizon Wireless,…
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has been the largest manufacturer of handsets in the world. As recently as two years ago, it had nearly 40% of the global market. That has changed as it…
