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Microsoft sales soar for all its non-Windows products
January 27th, 2015
Microsoft sales are growing for just about every product it makes … except for Windows. A couple years ago, that would have caused a panic — Windows has been Microsoft’s cash cow since 1985. In 2015, Microsoft (MSFT, Tech30) isn’t sweating it too ...
Top 10 Technology Predictions For 2015
December 3rd, 2014
New technologies will account for 100% of growth. Worldwide IT and telecommunications spending will grow 3.8% in 2015 to more than $3.8 trillion. Wireless data, the largest segment of the telecommunications sector, will also be the fastest growing ...
MOL Global shares tumble on Vietnam accounting glitch, profit slump
December 2nd, 2014
Shares in MOL Global Inc (MOLG.O), the first Malaysian company to list in the United States, fell more than 60 percent on Monday after the online payments company reported accounting errors at its Vietnam unit and a 61.5 percent ...
China Mobile’s 4G Explosive Growth Is Positive For Apple
November 27th, 2014
China Mobile ’s 4G user base is experiencing explosive growth. February of this year was the first month that it supported the faster technology (a month after it started to officially support Apple AAPL +1.18%’s iPhone 5c and 5s) and it signed up ...
Bolster your digital defences
November 25th, 2014
Cyber criminals have the financial services sector firmly in their sights, but there is much that organisations and employees can do to protect themselves from the threat Cyber crime is on the rise, and the financial services sector is ...
Obama unveils U.S. immigration reform, setting up fight with Republicans
November 21st, 2014
President Barack Obama imposed the most sweeping immigration reform in a generation on Thursday, easing the threat of deportation for some 4.7 million undocumented immigrants and setting up a clash with Republicans who vow to fight his moves. In a White ...
Best Buy profit beats, sending shares higher
November 20th, 2014
Best Buy reported quarterly earnings and revenue that beat analysts’ expectations on Thursday, sending shares sharply higher in premarket trading. Following the report, shares of Best Buy rose more than 8 percent in trading prior to the opening bell. The ...
Apple must face U.S. lawsuit over vanishing iPhone text messages
November 12th, 2014
Apple Inc (AAPL.O) was ordered to face a U.S. federal lawsuit claiming it failed to tell consumers that its messaging system would block them from receiving text messages if they switched to Android-based smartphones from iPhones. U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh ...
Qualcomm sees more China trouble, faces probes in U.S., Europe
November 6th, 2014
Qualcomm Inc (QCOM.O) warned on Wednesday that an antitrust investigation and problems collecting royalties could harm its business in China next year and it also disclosed new regulatory investigations in the United States and Europe. China’s expanding high-speed 4G ...
Lenovo Second-Quarter Profit Climbs, but Shares Dip
November 6th, 2014
Lenovo Group Ltd reported quarterly revenue that missed analyst estimates, with a decline in smartphone sales curbing investor optimism about the world’s biggest maker of personal computers (PCs) turning into a force in mobile devices. Lenovo’s earnings came at ...
