Each year, the U.S. Patent Office and Trademark Office awards hundreds of thousands of patents to American and global companies. Last week, IFI Claims Patent Services, a producer of patent databases, released its top…
When a group including movie studios and streaming video companies released a new streaming format called UltraViolet last October hardly anyone noticed. That’s likely to change now that Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) has…
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…
Sony (NYSE: SNE) staggered by years of unsuccessful product launches, and losses in its TV screen division, will try to reverse its fortunes with a new product. It was introduced at the Consumer…
Douglas A. McIntyre Reuters is reporting that the executive deputy president of Sony Corp. (NYSE: SNE), Kazuo Hirai, will be named as the company’s president by April of this year. Current chairman, CEO, and president…
Paul Ausick courtesy Barnes & Noble Inc.Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) lost 29% of its market cap on news that it might spin-off its NOOK e-reader operations. The book company is now worth only…
The latest portable game player from Sony Corp. (NYSE: SNE), the PlayStation Vita, sold more thn 300,000 units in its first two days on sale earlier this month. During the week before…
Paul Ausick Customer service surveys cannot entirely distinguish between true, direct customer service on the one hand and brand perception and reputation of the company providing the service on the other. A look at…
US equity markets rose rather steeply in the first hour of trading this morning, but weren’t able to sustain the momentum for long. Consumer confidence indexes rose this month, but home prices…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Tuesday morning. It is generally light in analyst coverage the week between Christmas…
Sony (NYSE: SNE) continues to restructure itself, although the stock market has been skeptical of its success. The Japanese consumer products company sold its part of an LCD joint venture to partner Samsung.…
Douglas A. McIntyre Sony (NYSE: SNE) will sell its LCD business to Samsung for $940 million. (Reuters) The yuan hits a high against the dollar and may gain 4% this year. (Reuters) Amazon.com’s (NASDAQ: AMZN)…
Updated throughout the day Olympus will get $1.28 billion in financial help from Sony (NYSE: SNE) (Nikkei) Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) bought Anobit (Calcalist) Apple and KKR will invest in a solar venture…
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…
