September 4, 2008 - Industry News
U.S. Factory Orders Probably Rose on Exports, Oil
Factory orders in the U.S. probably increased in July, reflecting overseas demand and a rise in oil prices that kept refineries busy, ...
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September 2, 2008 - Top Story News
Hon Hai Shares Fall on First Profit Drop in 7 Years
Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., the world's largest contract maker of electronics, fell by its daily limit in Taipei trading after the ...
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August 8, 2008 - Industry News
Lenovo First-Quarter Profit Rises 65% on Europe Sales
Lenovo Group Ltd., China's biggest personal-computer maker, said first-quarter profit rose 65 percent on higher sales in Europe. ...
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July 31, 2008 - Industry News
Motorola May Be No. 4 in Phones After Losing to LG
Motorola Inc., the world's biggest mobile-phone maker 10 years ago, probably fell to fourth last quarter as it lost more market share to ...
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July 23, 2008 - Industry News
Ericsson Profit Falls on Job Cuts, Lower Phone Sales
Ericsson AB, the world's largest maker of wireless networks, said second-quarter profit fell 70% because of costs to cut jobs and falling sales ...
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July 16, 2008 - Industry News
Nokia May Post Worst Sales Growth Since 2004 as Economies Slow
Nokia Oyj, the biggest maker of mobile phones, may report the slowest growth in quarterly revenue in almost four years as weakening ...
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June 20, 2008 - Industry News
Huawei May Sell Majority of Handset Unit, People Say
Huawei Technologies Co., China's biggest phone-network equipment maker, is considering selling a majority stake of a handset unit that may be ...
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June 11, 2008 - Industry News
NEC Recalls 860,000 Notebook PCs
NEC Corp. is recalling 860,000 notebook personal computers sold in Japan because of a risk they may catch fire, the Ministry of Economy, Trade ...
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April 24, 2008 - Industry News
Apple Earnings Rise 36%; Profit Forecast Falls Short
Apple Inc. reported a 36 percent jump in profit, topping estimates, on sales of Macintosh computers. The profit margin in the quarter and the ...
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March 25, 2008 - Industry News
BYD Electronic 2007 Profit Rises 50% on Higher Handset Demand
BYD Electronic (International) Co., a Chinese supplier of mobile-phone components to Nokia Oyj, said profit rose 50 percent last year as the ...
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February 20, 2008 - Industry News
Hewlett-Packard Profit Tops Estimates; Shares Climb (Update3)
Hewlett-Packard Co., the world's largest personal-computer maker, posted first-quarter profit and sales that beat estimates and raised its ...
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February 15, 2008 - Industry News
Umicore Drops After Earnings Miss Estimates on Costs
Umicore SA, the world's largest precious-metals recycler, fell the most in 1 1/2 years in Brussels trading after profit grew less than ...
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February 11, 2008 - Industry News
Yahoo to Reject Microsoft Offer, May Find Few Options
Yahoo! Inc., the Internet company that has failed to crack Google Inc.'s dominance of Web search, plans to reject a $44.6 billion takeover bid ...
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February 7, 2008 - Industry News
Qualcomm Passes Texas Instruments in Phone-Chip Sales
Qualcomm Inc. overtook Texas Instruments Inc. to become the largest maker of chips for mobile phones last year as customers used more of ...
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February 7, 2008 - Industry News
Elcoteq Falls After Posting Worse-Than-Estimated Loss
Elcoteq SE fell the most in 10 months in Helsinki trading after its fifth straight quarterly loss was worse than analysts anticipated ...
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January 9, 2008 - Industry News
Intel Head Says New Try at Phone Chips to Spur Growth
Intel Corp. Chief Executive Officer Paul Otellini, spearheading the chipmaker's second attempt to crack the mobile-phone market, said ...
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November 16, 2007 - Industry News
Advanced Micro May Prolong Delay of Its Newest Chips
Advanced Micro Devices Inc., the world's second-largest maker of computer processors, is late delivering its newest chip geared for ...
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November 13, 2007 - Technology News
Intel, Extending Lead, Turns to New Production
Intel Corp., seeking to extend its lead over Advanced Micro Devices Inc., will use a manufacturing process that debuted today for ...
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November 9, 2007 - Top Story News
Qualcomm Forecast Misses Estimates Amid Nokia Dispute
Qualcomm Inc., the second-biggest maker of chips that run mobile phones, cut its annual forecast because a patent dispute with Nokia Oyj may ...
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October 26, 2007 - Industry News
Sony Shares Rise After Camera Sales Drive Up Earnings
Sony Corp. rose the most in 21 months on the Tokyo Stock Exchange after earnings from consumer electronics rose more than analysts estimated ...
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September 27, 2007 - Industry News
Outsourcing Is Too Wild to Fit Economic Theory: Andy Mukherjee
Moline, Illinois, probably isn't a place that springs to mind when one thinks of pioneering efforts in services outsourcing. Yet, it was in ...
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August 2, 2007 - Industry News
Asia Stocks Extend Global Market Sell-Off on U.S. Subprime Rout
Asian stocks slumped, extending a global equities rout, after Macquarie Bank Ltd. and Bear Stearns Cos. said funds may post losses as the ...
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July 22, 2007 - Industry News
Asian Stocks Rise to Record on LG Electronics Profit, Metals
Asian stocks rose, pushing a regional benchmark to a record, after LG Electronics Inc. and Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd. reported better-than- ...
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June 27, 2007 - Industry News
TPG, Affinity Plan Takeover of Singapore Chip Tester
TPG Inc. and Affinity Equity Partners Ltd. offered to buy United Test & Assembly Center Ltd. for about $1.5 billion in the third ...
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June 11, 2007 - Technology News
Advanced Micro to Boost Taiwan Semiconductor Orders
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. will give more orders to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. to meet demand for graphics chips. "We're going to ...
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