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Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT) may be one of the restructuring nightmares of the decade. This morning the company is taking further steps in its restructuring by announcing "cost cutting...
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Kicking management and practices at Nortel Networks Corp. (NYSE: NT) is nothing new for us. We have discussed the company’s problems here for longer than memory serves. Mike Zafirovski is...
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Nokia (NOK) can’t keep up with the falling demand for cellular handsets. It cuts its forecasts for Q4 and 2009 again. That is probably not good new for Motorola (MOT), Samsung, RIM (RIMM), or even...
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John Thompson, the head of Symantec (SYMC), "stepped down" yesterday. Hector Ruiz recently vacated the CEO’s office at AMD (AMD). The head of Sun (JAVA), Jonathan Schwartz, will probably be gone...
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According to several media accounts, Nokia (NOK) is forecasting real trouble in the handset market both in the fourth quarter and into 2009. According to MarketWatch,Nokia warned that industry...
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Short sellers are still betting that financial shares will fall but they have boldly moved into shares of companies which are considered healthy, those with both good balance sheets and relatively...
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Motorola (MOT) is a first class example of what Ivy League business school professors do not want their students to know. It might frighten the horses. At some companies, there is no bottom. Every...
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According to Reuters, the government is set to announced the country’s tenth straight month of jobs losses. Reuters reports that Chrysler is burning through it cash quickly and the company may have...
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The king of customer satisfaction surveys, JP Power, has anointed the Apple (AAPL) iPhone as the best smartphone on the market. Apple ranks highest in overall smartphone customer satisfaction with a...
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Many of the layoff announcements which came over the last several days were as unexpected as they were large. If a recession is measured by the rapidity and breadth of job losses across huge parts of...
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Motorola (MOT), mocked and ridiculed for being badly run for the last two years, has now let another 3,000 people go, two-thirds of them from the company’s failed handset business which only sold...
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Motorola (MOT) missed a lot of its numbers for the third quarter. Much more important than that it fudged when it might dump its handset unit. The deal was supposed to happen in the third quarter of...
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Motorola (MOT) has not introduced a successful handset since the Razr three years ago. Its global market share has dropped from 22% to 12% in just a few quarters. The firm had nothing to match the...
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According to Reuters, global stocks rose on possible rate cuts but the economic outlook is grim. Reuters reports that the Fed is expected to cut rates with Japan likely to follow. Reuters reports...
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By some estimates the handset business that Motorola (MOT) plans to spin-out to shareholders next year has no value at all. If the parent company puts some cash in the handset firm’s bank account...
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