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Samsung’s profit hit bottom in third quarter ahead of slow recovery
October 2nd, 2014
Samsung Electronics Co Ltd’s (005930.KS) profit is seen weakening further in the third-quarter, underscoring the downturn in its market-leading smartphone business and piling pressure on the firm to deliver a revamped product lineup. According to analysts, the world’s largest ...
Cambodia sees a growth in consumerism
September 29th, 2014
Though poverty is still rife in the countryside, an urban boom and robust growth fueled by garment manufacturing for brands such as Nike (NKE.N) and GAP (GPS.N) has given rise to a growing consumer class that earns triple the ...
Alibaba IPO signals global ambitions
September 12th, 2014
It was a scene straight out of Silicon Valley — only it took place across the Pacific. In 1999, Jack Ma gathered his wife and 17 friends in his small apartment in China’s eastern city of Hangzhou, about 100 ...
Apple investors: Buy the phone, sell the watch
September 10th, 2014
Apple shares on Tuesday were generally bought on the rumor but sold on the news — a broad range of it, in fact — raising the question of whether the late-day drop was a reflection of new investor concerns ...
Down again! How low can Apple’s stock go?
September 5th, 2014
Apple (AAPL) shares got hit again Thursday following their colossal drubbing Wednesday. Shares of Apple closed down 81 cents, or 0.8%, to $98.12 in late-day trading Thursday as investors cool off from a remarkable bull run this year. Concerns ...
Apple’s drop below $100 costs investors $26.1 billion
September 4th, 2014
Following news of the latest security attack of Apple’s iCloud service over the weekend and news of a smartphone partnership between Samsung and Facebook (FB), Apple’s AAPL shares were under major pressure. Shares of Apple Wednesday fell $4.36, or ...
Apple loses bid to block sales of 9 Samsung phones
August 28th, 2014
A federal judge has rejected Apple’s attempt to block the sale of several older Samsung smartphones that copied features in the iPhone. Wednesday’s rebuff comes nearly four months after a jury awarded Apple Inc. $119 million in damages for ...
China plans its own operating system to take on Microsoft, Google and Apple
August 25th, 2014
China could have a new homegrown operating system by October to take on imported rivals such as Microsoft, Google and Apple, Xinhua, the government news agency, reported. Computer technology became an area of tension between China and the United ...
Why Bitcoin won’t be the money of the future – but cryptocurrencies might be
August 21st, 2014
Proponents of Bitcoin like to suggest that it will be the money of the future. Critics point to its price volatility, evidence of a Bitcoin bubble and other problems. With the price of Bitcoin having just fallen below $500 ...
Samsung’s next reinvention challenge is ‘reinvent itself’ & to be more innovative
August 7th, 2014
As its smartphone sales stutter and a generational leadership succession looms, Samsung Electronics Co Ltd is under pressure to reinvent itself – to be more innovative, but not lose the rigor and focus that made it a global powerhouse. ...
