Verizon Wireless’s 4G superfast wireless network has been down intermittently. That could drive off customers. And the network is at the heart of Verizon’s (NYSE: VZ) campaign to gain customers from AT&T Wireless…
Toyota (NYSE: TM) forecasts that it will sell 8.48 million cars and light trucks worldwide next year — up 20% from 2011. The prediction is based on two factors. The first is that…
If you took the developments of the last couple of years with the explosion of smartphones, Garmin Ltd. (NASDAQ: GRMN) might have been easy to consider road kill. Yet here we are…
When AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) killed the $39 billion deal for T-Mobile USA it had agreed to with Deutsche Telekom AG (OTC: DTEGY), the $4 billion break-up fee going to DT is…
Prosecutors raid Olympus to gain data in a probe of the accounting scandal at the company. (Reuters) Bank of Japan says it will hold to current policies as the economy in the…
The US International Trade Commission has issued a ruling in a suit brought by Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) against Taiwan’s HTC Corp., maker of smartphones that use the Android operating system from…
Updated throughout the day Olympus will get $1.28 billion in financial help from Sony (NYSE: SNE) (Nikkei) Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) bought Anobit (Calcalist) Apple and KKR will invest in a solar venture…
The UK says it will not contribute to a new IMF-based 150 billion euro package for use in bailing out regional economies. The UK government senses that as it pushes it own austerity to…
AT&T (NYSE: T) gives up on its effort to buy T-Mobile. (Reuters) Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) wins a patent case over HTC in the smartphone wars. (Reuters) Olympus will sell shares to Sony…
Continuing a long list of battles among smartphone companies, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) won a case against Taiwan’s HTC. The ITC said HTC violated one Apple patent. HTC should have enough time to change the technology involved…
Remarks made over the weekend by Nokia Corp. (NYSE: NOK) CEO Steven Elop appear to quell any notion that the company plans to enter the tablet market any time soon. The company…
Updated throughout the day. Exxon Mobil (NYSE: XOM) may buy Gulf Keystone Petroleum for $10.9 billion (The Independent) Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) has begun to meet media executives in preparation to launch its…
Fitch is skeptical that European Union officials can solve the sovereign debt crisis. (Reuters) The rising U.S. deficit could undermine health care reforms. (Reuters) The S&P 500 may not close in the…
Covering a wide range of industries and behaviors, the 10Q Detective lists some of the more sophomoric — and predictable — regulatory filings made to the Securities and Exchange Commission in 2011:…
US equity markets opened solidly higher this morning, but began to lose momentum by mid-morning. From there it’s been a mostly downhill day with the DJIA creeping back to nearly flat with…
