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Shares of Nokia Corp. (NYSE: NOK) set a new 52-week low of $2.00 today. The one-time leader in sales of mobile phones did not have any news, but the company’s prospects are not encouraging to...
The latest rankings are out from comScore Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR) on the US smartphone device and platform markets. Samsung Electronics (OTC: SSNLF) leads the device makers with a 25.7% market share....
The non-profit Mozilla Corporation, maker of the Firefox web browser, today said that it would issue a smartphone operating system platform as the Firefox OS. The platform has been known until now as...
Canadian-based smartphone maker Research in Motion Ltd. (NASDAQ: RIMM) is expected to fire about 2,000 employees as soon as the end of this week as the struggling company tries to save itself by...
Two years ago Cisco Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO) introduced a tablet device it had named the ‘Cius’, which used the Android operating system from Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG). The7-inch device was...
High-tech industry research firm Gartner Inc. (NYSE: IT) reports this morning the worldwide sales of mobile phones unexpectedly fell -2% in the first quarter of 2012, to a total of 419.1 million...
The 3.5-inch screen on the iPhone from Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) may be elegant, but it’s also puny compared with the 4.5-inch screens available from other smartphone makers. A report in The Wall...
Shares of Nokia Corp. (NYSE: NOK) touched a new 52-week low today at $3.12. The struggling handset maker has been hit with a class-action lawsuit charging that the company misled investors regarding...
Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ) reported first quarter earnings this morning, and the US’s second-largest wireless carrier mostly met or slightly exceeded expectations. The company’s EPS...
The introduction of the Lumia 900 smartphone from Nokia Corp. (NYSE: NOK), Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT), and AT&T Inc (NYSE: T) was not exactly a thing of beauty. First, the launch was set for...
In testimony in the copyright infringement case brought by Oracle Corp. (NASDAQ: ORCL) against Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG), Oracle CEO Larry Ellison said that his company considered buying smartphone...
Shares of Nokia Corp. (NYSE: NOK) have hit new 52-week low of $4.01 today following a downgrade from Barclays. And the hits just keep on coming. The company’s credit default swaps (CDS) have hit a...
Earlier this morning Nokia Corp. (NYSE: NOK) issued a warning on first and second quarter revenue and earnings, but that wasn’t all the bad news the company had coming today. Nokia’s Sunday...
Nokia Corp. (NYSE: NOK) this morning issued a preliminary look at first and second quarter earnings, and the view is not pretty. The company noted margin declines and poor sales in Africa, the Middle...
The Android smartphone operating system from Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) grabbed nearly 70% of sales in China during the fourth quarter of 2011 according to a new report from Chinese research firm...