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Investing
The Worst Product Flops of 2011
A number of incredible new products were launched this year. Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) introduced the iPhone 4S — a phone with voice command — and Boeing’s (NYSE: BA) 787 Dreamliner — a…
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6:34am ET
Telecom & Wireless
Google Tablet to Menace iPad?
Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) chairman Eric Schmidt says his company will launch a new tablet PC in 2012. The product will run on the firm’s Android OS mobile platform. Google likely will struggle with…
8:50am ET
Telecom & Wireless
Apple iOS is Mobile Shoppers’ Choice (AAPL, GOOG, AMZN)
During this year’s holdiday shopping season, some 92% of all online sales generated by mobile devices (smartphones, tablets) were made from devices running iOS from Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL). That number represents…
6:25am ET
Media
Media Digest (12/23/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, Bloomberg
Congress makes a deal to keep payroll taxes low and unemployment benefits in place for two more months. (Reuters) The U.S. approves a Deutsche Boerse deal to merge with NYSE Euronext (NYSE: NYX). (Reuters)…
12:43pm ET
Investing
Apple Loses Round to Samsung in German Tablet Dispute (AAPL, GOOG, SSNLF)
In a preliminary ruling today, a German court has said that the design of the Galaxy Tab 10.1 from Samsung Electronics (OTC: SSNLF) does not infringe on the “legally protected” design of…
6:06am ET
Telecom & Wireless
4G Service Falters as 3G Did Before It
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…
6:04am ET
Investing
What’s Important in the Financial World (12/22/2011) Nokia Europe Sales, Toyota Record Prediction
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…
3:23pm ET
Transportation
Huge 52-Week High Surprise: Garmin (GRMN, GOOG, AAPL, TRMB)
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…
1:17pm ET
Telecom & Wireless
Deutsche Telekom’s Windfall May Come Up Short (T, DTEGY, S, VZ, VOD, AAPL)
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…
6:14am ET
Media
Media Digest (12/21/2011) Reuters, WSJ, FT, Bloomberg
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…
9:32am ET
Investing
Apple Wins Ruling in HTC Patent Dispute (AAPL, GOOG)
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…
8:24am ET
Investing
Todays’ Best Market Rumors (12/20/2011) Apple And Anobit
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…
6:20am ET
Investing
What’s Important in the Financial World (12/20/2011) UK and EU, HTC and Apple
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…
6:20am ET
Media
Media Digest (12/20/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT
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…
3:42am ET
Investing
Apple Trumps HTC In Court Case
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…