The latest figure for the number of users of the Google+ social network from Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) is more than 62 million. The sign-up rate for the Facebook competitor has reached…
Paul Ausick A number of economists believe the U.S. debt burden, budget problems, recession and lack of growth will soon be the same as those now facing many EU nations. This would mean that…
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…
Retailers hope that “mega Monday” sales continue a string of strong retail results. (Reuters) The MF Global disaster prompts requests that the systems for grain trading to be changed. (Reuters) Chinese investment…
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…
Is Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) just a good citizen, or is there a reason it supports nonprofit operation Mozilla, which operates the Firefox browser? Google has a browser of its own — Chrome.…
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…
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…
Update: The Wall Street Journal reports that Nokia (NYSE: NOK) and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MFST) may also have consider a join bid. The rumors that a company would offer to buy Canadian smartphone pioneer…
If you have been watching the share prices of the solar stocks, you will understand the joke (and perhaps not even laugh) that investing in these has turned many 401-K retirement funds…
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…
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…
