Data released by comScore about mobile phone sales in December showed that trends from earlier in the year continued. Sales of Samsung handsets bested all of its rivals in the US with…
A number of news media have recently reported that Nokia (NYSE: NOK) CEO Stephen Elop will replace a large number of the top managers at the world’s largest cellphone company. Among the…
AOL (NYSE: AOL) bought the Huffington Post for $315 million. (Reuters) Sanofi-Aventis and Genzyme (NASDAQ: GENZ) are closer to a deal (Reuters) Hackers who broke into the NASDAQ will undermine investor confidence.…
NokiaStandard & Poor’s suspects that the new strategy from Nokia Corp. (NYSE: NOK), set to be announced February 11th, is not going to be enough to boost the company’s competitive position in…
Companies locked in a struggle to remain viable and maintain their profits and sales sometimes begin to run out of customers. This happened to GM (NYSE: GM), which had a 50% share…
The iPad from Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) lost nearly 20% of its 96% share of the tablet market in the fourth quarter of 2010 to tablets using the Android operating system from…
The IMF “Fiscal Monitor” and ratings agencies have both warned Japan and the US on their growing debt loads (Reuters) Ford Motor’s (NYSE: F) annual profit may be its largest since 2000…
If there was any lingering doubt about the identity of the 600-pound gorilla in the mobile phone market, today’s earnings announcements from three major mobile players out to put those doubts out…
Updated throughout the day Sara Lee (NYSE: SLE) has no bid from Apollo and JBS SA (Bloomberg) After poor earnings Nokia (NYSE: NOK) may go through a restructuring (various) ‘Douglas A. McIntyre
Some Senators said they would pass a currency bill to punish China on the value of the yuan just as the People’s Republic president Hu Jintao visits Obama. (Reuters) Citigroup (NYSE: C)…
The Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) App Store may have 300,000 downloadable software applications, but Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) is gaining on that number at a remarkable pace. The Apple app figure doubled in 2010.…
Yet another breach may be opening in the wall surrounding the Wintel cartel. Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT), Intel Corp. (NASDAQ: INTC), and Advanced Micro Devices (NYSE: AMD) have dominated the PC market…
The troubles that Nokia Corp. (NYSE: NOK) has had getting a worthy competitor into the smartphone market are pretty well documented. The company’s N8 smartphone was released after many delays in early…
Nokia Corp. (NYSE:NOK) new Chief Executive Steven Elop was hired in September to lead a turnaround of the struggling cellphone maker whose market value has eroded by $61 billion. With today’s announced…
It’s probably an overstatement to say that we have now gotten our first look at the long-awaited Nexus S smartphone from Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG). The new phone, introduced a mobile device…
