By Harichandan Arakali and Farah Master BANGALORE/HONG KONG | Thu Jan 26, 2012 10:08pm EST BANGALORE/HONG KONG (Reuters) – Investors in Apple Inc have a one-word answer for those who wonder whether this corporate juggernaut can maintain its phenomenal momentum in the years ahead: Asia. The iconic maker of the iPhone, iPad and iPod has [...]
January 27th, 2012 by admin
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By Miyoung Kim SEOUL | Thu Jan 26, 2012 10:04pm EST SEOUL (Reuters) – Samsung Electronics Co posted a record $4.7 billion quarterly operating profit, driven by booming smartphone sales, and will spend $22 billion this year to boost production of chips and flat screens to pull further ahead of smaller rivals. The South Korean [...]
January 27th, 2012 by admin
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By Lisa Richwine LOS ANGELES | Wed Jan 25, 2012 9:23pm EST LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Netflix Inc signed up more U.S. subscribers than expected in the fourth quarter, reversing a wave of defections triggered by a series of high-profile missteps last year and pushing its shares up 13 percent. That return to customer growth [...]
January 26th, 2012 by admin
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By Poornima Gupta SAN FRANCISCO | Wed Jan 25, 2012 8:25pm EST SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Apple CEO Tim Cook has a problem, a $98 billion problem. Just 18 months ago, Apple’s $46 billion mountain of cash – while huge by most standards – attracted only muted complaints from investors, who did call for a [...]
January 26th, 2012 by admin
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By Himank Sharma Tue Jan 24, 2012 6:46pm EST (Reuters) – Google Inc plans to unify its privacy policy and terms of service across its online offerings, including its flagship search, Gmail and Google+ products, to make them easier to use, but the move could attract greater scrutiny from anti-trust regulators. In an online blog [...]
January 25th, 2012 by admin
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By Poornima Gupta SAN FRANCISCO | Tue Jan 24, 2012 8:57pm EST SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Apple Inc’s quarterly results blew past Wall Street’s expectations after U.S. consumers snapped up near-unprecedented numbers of iPhones and iPads, sending its shares up 8 percent into record territory. The world’s most valuable technology corporation returned to form after [...]
January 25th, 2012 by admin
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By Sinead Carew Mon Jan 23, 2012 8:00pm EST (Reuters) – Texas Instruments Inc (TXN.O) reported better-than-expected fourth-quarter chip sales as customers in a broad array of industries replenished depleted inventories. TI shares rose more than 3.4 percent in late trade on Monday after the maker of chips for a broad array of manufacturers in [...]
January 24th, 2012 by admin
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TORONTO/LONDON (Reuters) – The new leader at Research In Motion on Monday dismissed talk of drastic change at the BlackBerry maker, a declaration seized on by impatient investors who say Thorsten Heins has only 12 to 18 months to turn RIM around. Takeover talk, swirling around RIM for months, picked up steam as Heins took [...]
January 24th, 2012 by admin
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