ThinkstockA look at the charts this morning shows that BlackBerry Ltd. (NASDAQ: BBRY) has a market cap of just under $6 billion. A privately held smartphone maker just received an investment that values…
Brian Solis, via Wikimedia CommonsFacebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) plans to solve one of the Internet’s most vexing problems — most people around the world have no access to it. The notion that…
courtesy of SamsungAccording to several press sources, Samsung will introduce the equivalent of a smartwatch that can surf the Web, make phone calls and even tell time. At first, the news would…
Tesla Motors blogThe companies on the list were something of a surprise, based on business prospects and layoffs. The Top 25 companies for Work-Life Balance as measured by Glassdoor was just released.…
courtesy of SamsungGlobal mobile phone sales totaled 435 million units in the second quarter of 2013, and of that total, some 225 million units, or 51.8%, were smartphones. That is the first…
Courtesy BlackBerrySome company is supposed to buy BlackBerry Ltd. (NASDAQ: BBRY), or at least that is what its board appears to believe. The way the smartphone corporation’s stock trades tells otherwise. After…
Last month when Nokia agreed to acquire the other half of its joint venture, Nokia Siemens Networks, from Siemens for $2.2 billion, we wondered what in the world the Finnish mobile phone…
Courtesy BlackBerryOn the face of it, BlackBerry Ltd. (NASDAQ: BBBY) and Nokia Corp. (NYSE: NOK) are in equally bad shape, having been marginalized by Samsung, Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) and a small…
courtesy of SamsungOne of the two largest smartphone makers in the world has sent out invitations to an event on September 4 that most people think will be the introduction the company’s…
courtesy Dell Inc.Michael Dell appears to have gotten what he wished for. The special committee of the Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) board, charged with vetting any arrangement to buy the company, has…
courtesy of SamsungThe new Motorola Moto X, made by the division of Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG), may be the best smartphone ever made — the best in the universe. But in the great…
courtesy of Apple Inc.Taking market share or losing market share is one key metric over how popular a product is. What happens if that market share does not translate to profitability? In…
courtesy of MicrosoftAccording to Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT), its Surface tablet business lost money in the past fiscal year. One clue that the product was in trouble was the disclosure that Microsoft…
ThinkstockNEC has decided not to join HTC, BlackBerry Ltd. (NASDAQ: BBRY), Nokia Corp. (NYSE: NOK) and smaller rivals in the uphill battle against Samsung and Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL). It will leave…
Microsoft Sweden, via Wikimedia CommonsA billionaire should be able to take a few weeks off in the summer, particularly one who works as religiously as Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) CEO Steve Ballmer. His…
