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…
Customers, employees, shareholders and taxpayers hate large corporations for many reasons. 24/7 Wall St. reviewed a lengthy list of corporations for which there is substantial research data to choose the 10 most…
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…
South Korean electronics firm LG is the third-largest manufacturer of wireless handsets in the world. Nevertheless, the company has struggled to make the business successful. It will not pull back from cellphone manufacturing,…
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…
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has been the largest manufacturer of handsets in the world. As recently as two years ago, it had nearly 40% of the global market. That has changed as it…
Each January, 24/7 Wall St. forecasts the publicly traded U.S. companies that will have the highest profits in the year ahead. This year, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) is likely to pass Exxon Mobil…
The three partners in the launch of the new Nokia (NYSE: NOK) Windows-powered Lumia 900 smartphone — AT&T (NYSE: T), Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) and Nokia — were effusive about its chances to rival…
CES – The Consumer Electronics Show is awash with new gadgets. Most will never see the light of day. Many will trigger tens of millions of dollars in manufacturing and marketing costs…
Olympus sues its CEO and former board members for $50 million in compensation, and shares rise. (Reuters) China’s trade growth hits a two-year low in December. (Reuters) Philips warns of Q4 weakness…
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) have released their first Window’s based smartphone aimed at the US market. AT&T (NYSE:T) says it will aggressively market the product. The success of the release…
Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) may have missed the smartphone move entirely. Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) and Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) have run away with the market. Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ) found out…
Jon OggThis was the first week after the holidays and many analyst calls were made this week with updated outlooks for 2012. 24/7 Wall St. saw many influential analyst calls this week…
Google’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) Android mobile OS could have 50% of the smarphone market share worldwide. If so, it would be a blow to Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), Research In Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM), and…
The gap between the top tier and bottom tier of handset makers continues to widen. Taiwan-based HTC posted is worst quarter in two years. But Samung’s smartphone sales pushed its fourth-quarter profits higher. There is…
