Chip companies ASML and Texas Instruments raised sales forecasts, in another sign consumers are buying more gadgets, sending technology shares higher on Thursday.
Verizon Communications says it is ready to oppose the sale of the enterprise business unit of Canadian telecom-equipment maker Nortel Networks' to Avaya Inc for $475 million, citing public safety and security concerns.
Polo Ralph Lauren Corp, the fashion company behind the Polo and Club Monaco brands, said on Thursday its smaller Rugby brand was launching an iPhone application that lets users design their own shirts.
Motorola Inc unveiled on Thursday the first of many cellphones to be developed in partnership with Google, but analysts questioned if it could revive the once-dominant handset maker's fortunes.
A South African information technology company on Wednesday proved it was faster for them to transmit data with a carrier pigeon than to send it using Telkom , the country's leading internet service provider.
Motorola Inc unveiled on Thursday a new cellphone that uses Google software and features easier access to social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter, but some analysts said it might not be enough to turn around the company's money-losing handset business.
Japanese talent agency Yoshimoto Kogyo Co Ltd plans to go private in a 52.7 billion yen ($571 million) buyout led by a consortium of about 20 firms, two sources familiar with the matter said.
China's Huawei, one of the world's top makers of networking equipment, on Thursday denied a report it was in talks to form an alliance with Franco-American rival Alcatel-Lucent.
Texas Instruments Inc raised its forecast for third-quarter earnings per share on Wednesday, expecting to ride a gradual recovery in the global semiconductor industry.
Cell phone chipmaker Skyworks Solutions Inc raised its fourth-quarter earnings and revenue outlook, citing an improvement in order demand due to diversification into new sectors and consolidation of its market share.
Apple Inc Chief Executive Steve Jobs returned to the public spotlight for the first time in half a year on Wednesday, helping the company's shares gain nearly 1 percent.
Apple Inc Chief Executive Steve Jobs returned to the public spotlight for the first time in half a year on Wednesday, helping the company's shares gain nearly 1 percent.
Just ahead of Apple's much anticipated 09/09/09 event later today, the company quietly dropped prices for its line of iPods.
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Palm Inc on Wednesday announced a lower-priced smartphone in the same family as its popular Palm Pre, although the move may be overshadowed by rival product launches by Motorola and Apple.
Red may be the official color of Berlin's IFA electronics fair but companies exhibiting there have chosen to show their green side as they prepare for new EU energy conservation legislation that will take effect in 2010.
More than half of European websites selling consumer electronics are misleading or cheating online shoppers, the European Union consumer watchdog said on Wednesday after checks on 369 sites in 28 countries.
A U.S. trade panel said on Tuesday that it would investigate complaints that companies were violating its ban on imports of digital screens using patented Funai Electric Co technology.
Nokia Siemens Networks, the key equipment vendor to British operations of Deutsche Telekom and France Telecom, has most to lose in the merger of the two mobile networks, analysts said Tuesday.
Nokia Siemens Networks, the key equipment vendor to British operations of Deutsche Telekom and France Telecom, has most to lose in the merger of the two mobile networks, analysts said on Tuesday.
A major shareholder in China's Lenovo , the world's No. 4 PC maker, plans to sell 292 million shares at HK$3.55-3.57 per share, according to sources with knowledge of the deal, a discount of 2.5-3 percent from Tuesday's close.
Abu Dhabi's state-owned ATIC offered to buy Chartered Semiconductor for $1.8 billion, while major shareholders in Hynix began the sale of a $2.8 billion stake, kickstarting consolidation in a chip sector emerging from its worst ever downturn.
