ELECTRONICS

Lenovo Group Ltd, the world's fourth-largest personal computer maker behind HP and Dell, and Acer says it is looking to acquire other PC firms to gain market share.

Sony Corp. may probably report an increase of 430 percent of profit for the 2007-2008 financial year ended March 31 since demand for digital cameras, computers and other electronics increased, the newspaper Nikkei reported on Friday.

Comcast Corp. reported better-than-expected results on Thursday, citing stronger growth in its digital cable and high-speed Internet services.

The sole Canadian mobile phone service provider using the GSM standard, Rogers Communications, said on Tuesday that it will start offering iPhones to its subscribers later this year.

3Com Corp. on Tuesday named a new CEO who will be based in China, after it unsuccessfully sought to win a U.S. government approval to sell a minority stake to China's biggest telecom gear maker Huawei Technologies Co Ltd.

Honeywell International Inc. a diversified technology and manufacturing company said on Monday that it will buy Metrologic Instruments Inc. for $720 million and the company will merge with Honeywell's Automation and Control Solution business.

Intel sealed an alliance deal with maker of supercomputer, Cray Inc, to increase its competitive advantage against Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) which just introduced its first computer brand, early on Monday.

Shares of RadioShack Corp. fell on Monday after the electronics retailer said its first-quarter net income fell worse than expected, dropping 8.7 percent on weaker results from its Sprint Nextel Corp. wireless business.

Vodafone India, the arm of UK based world's largest wireless telecom company Vodafone, is likely to bring the much awaited, versatile and Macintosh operating system based Apple's iPhone to India this September as per market speculations ripe in the country.

Shares of Research in Motion Ltd. fell on Friday, falling more than 2.8 percent after a report that the it will push back the release of its 3G BlackBerry phone for AT&T to as late as August.

Lenovo confirmed its intentions to distribute sell and support VMware's virtualization platform in server systems sold in China.

U.S. stocks gained on Thursday for a second day, with the Dow at its highest since January, after financial shares reversed losses and Merrill Lynch & Co. said it has enough capital to maintain its dividend, while retailers got a boost from lower oil prices.

Technology stocks rose on Wednesday, driven by gains in information technology firm EMC Corp., VMware Inc., and Apple Corp.

Research In Motion (RIM), maker of BlackBerry will expand its research and development capabilities by setting up a new facility in Western Europe.

US technology giant, Apple, reported a profit gain of 36 percent in consumers cash in on Macintosh computers and iPod players.

U.S. stocks took a slow upturn on Wednesday, on better-than-expected profits airplane manufacturer Boeing Co., while technology and industrial companies also raised investors optimism by releasing positive earning results. The Standard & Poor's index took a downturn at midday trading.

Microsoft Corp.'s Tellme subsidiary launched an application for the BlackBerry on Tuesday that lets people speak commands into their smart phones to search for businesses, look up movie times, check traffic and make other queries.

Sony Corp. of America said on Tuesday it will acquire Gracenote Inc. a company that provides music recognition technologies for about $260 million.

Apple Inc is expected to report a profit for its second fiscal quarter on Wednesday that will top the company's usually conservative guidance but the stock has been on a roller coaster the past two days as investors react to differing analysts' views.

Google was ranked the world's most powerful brand for the second time, after the firm dominated the online advertisement industry across the globe.

Sony BMG revealed on Tuesday that it will join Universal Music Group in a partnership that will allow users of certain mobile phones to access its entire music catalog by the end of the year.