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Samsung Galaxy Nexus, which is the first phone running on Google's Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, is expected to arrive in the United States after Nov. 25, Black Friday. However, some Android smartphone contenders will try their best to spoil the party.

It is raining smartphones these holiday season as various mobile giants from Apple to HTC are lining up their best products with mind-boggling specifications and marketing it aggressively.

The top after market NYSE Losers on Wednesday were: RealD Inc, MEMC Electronic Materials, Ion Geophysical, Transocean, Penn Virginia, Walter Energy, Hartford Financial Services Group, Education Realty Trust, Teekay LNG Partners and Polypore International Inc.

The companies that are expected to see active trade on Thursday are: Starbucks Corp., American International Group, First Solar, Qualcomm, Teradata Corp, Chesapeake Energy, NetQin Mobile, NYSE Euronext, RealD, Microchip Technology, MGM Resorts International, Frontier Communications and Duke Energy Corp.

Shares in LG Electronics plunged early Thursday amid market talk the world's No.3 handset maker was planning a rights offer worth some 1 trillion won ($891.4 million).

RealD Inc's shares fell as much as 14 percent in extended trade after the licensor of 3D technologies said Samsung Electronics pulled out of an agreement to make television panels featuring the company's technology.

Sony Corp. warned of a fourth straight year of losses, with its television unit alone set to lose $2.2 billion on tumbling demand and a surging yen, sinking its U.S. shares and raising concerns about the viability of its high-profile TV business.

Internet giant Google expects India's Internet growth to be driven by mobile users, predicting that they will form the majority of new Internet users in the country as low-priced smartphones become available.

Carrier AT&T said it would sell two 4G LTE smartphones -- HTC Vivid and Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket -- on its network from Nov.6.

Sony Corp. surprised investors on Wednesday by warning it is heading for its fourth straight annual net loss and that its TV business alone would produce a loss of $2.2 billion due to tumbling demand and a surging yen.

While Apple Inc.'s iPhone 4S is marching towards a huge success from around the world, analysts are expecting a 4G LTE iPhone 5 to come in 2012.

Sony Corp said it is headed for its fourth straight annual net loss, instead of a profit it forecast earlier, as Thai floods disrupted camera production, adding to losses from a soaring yen and price slides in its TVs and PCs in the United States and Europe.

Sony Corp said it is now headed for its fourth straight annual net loss instead of a profit as Thai floods disrupt camera production on top of losses from a soaring yen and price slides in its TVs and PCs in the United States and Europe.

Sony Corp on Wednesday slashed its full-year operating profit outlook by 90 percent to its lowest level in three years as Thai floods disrupt camera production at the Japanese company, which is already struggling with a soaring yen and sluggish television sales in the U.S. and Europe.

By 2012, Samsung announced that they may be unleashing mobile devices with pliable screens.

AT&T has announced the release date and price of its HTC Vivid smartphone, one of the long-awaited 4G LTE smartphone models to storm the carrier.

Proliferation of handheld electronic devices is causing a new problem: theft in transit systems around the U.S. Now that the holiday season is coming, police departments are trying to crack down.

Google is reportedly building a native Gmail application for the iPhone. Here's why that won't happen.

AT&T has released HTC Vivid on its network. The LTE device will be available from Nov.6 for $199 under 2-year contract.

Amid a push to go beyond the sale of boxed games, the major games retailer starts selling Android tablets.

Samsung and HTC lead the U.S. in smartphone sales. Here's how their newest devices compare.