Brand consultancy Interbrand has issued its latest report on brand value, and while the top five did not change, a gap is opening between the fourth and fifth place finishers. The largest…
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…
This shortened week is the first week full of many major companies reporting earnings season. We will have a clear direction for the financial leaders and many of the technology leaders after…
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…
When Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) introduced its driverless car last year, many people wondered what that had to do with Internet search. More than two years ago, IBM Corp. (NYSE: IBM) established…
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,…
Usually board appointments are not major events for companies. Still, sometimes they matter for a company direction even if they do not generate moves in the stock price. Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG)…
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…
About a month ago, Dish Network Corp. (NASDAQ: DISH) was mentioned as a possible buyer for the T-Mobile USA unit of Deutsche Telekon AG (OTC: DTEGY), should the $39 billion deal with…
Olympus may partner with Samsung. (Reuters) RBS cuts 3,500 investment bank jobs. (Reuters) RealtyTrac reports that foreclosures reached a four-year low in 2011. (Reuters) International Monetary Fund senior executive Lipton sees no…
Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) and Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) may be partners in the search engine business because they share a technology platform. However, the bragging rights that go with the No.2 spot behind…
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…
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…
