Apple’s iPhone still continues to make up strong for the US carriers: AT&T, Verizon and Sprint. “Our March checks indicated the iPhone continues to extend its market share gains,” Canaccord Genuity analyst Mike Walkley writes in a note to clients today. “In fact, we believe iPhones are outselling all other smartphones combined at Sprint and AT&T and...
Yahoo sees another high-level executive departure, this time it’s a top-level content executive Luke Beatty. Luke is a Vice President and General Manager at Yahoo! and oversees Yahoo Local and all of the community properties, including the Yahoo Contributor Network, Flickr, Yahoo Groups and Yahoo Answers. Associated Content, now called the Yahoo Contributor Network, which Luke founded in 2005 and was acquired by Yahoo! in 2010 and is known as the web’s first crowd sourced media platform. Prior to founding Associated Content, Luke...
Lenovo has announced that former Acer CEO Gianfranco Lanci was appointed as a chief of Lenovo’s operations in Europe, Middle East and Africa, and said he aims to break into the top three in the region by next year. Lanci said in a statement he sees the rise of tablet computers and other gadgets such as thin Ultrabooks, creating many new opportunities for Lenovo. Lanci left Acer abruptly at the end of March last year after a disagreement with other board members over the strategy needed to counter. “EMEA is a strategically critical...
The European Commission announced today that it has opened two formal antitrust investigations against Motorola Mobility Inc. The Commission will assess whether Motorola has abusively, and in contravention of commitments it gave to standard setting organisations, used certain of its standard essential patents to distort competition in the Internal Market in breach of EU antitrust rules. The opening of proceedings means that the Commission will examine the cases as a matter of priority. It does not prejudge the outcome of the investigations. Following...
With the London Olympics 2012 round the corner, the search giant has just announced its real time service alerts for the London Underground to Google Maps helping the visitors to inform with any disruptions on the Underground that are happening at the time you need them most. In addition to the service alerts in real time, the company have included planned engineering...
Motorola has just announced that the Droid RAZR Maxx is coming to Europe and Middle East in May this year. The phone features 4.3-inch display with Android as an operating system and a 3,300mAh battery in selected markets across Europe and Middle East. The company promises a long 17.6 hours of talktime over a 3G network with the RAZR Maxx, which is powered by a 1.2GHz...
Japan’s scandal-hit Olympus has promoted Akihiro Nambu, who headed the investor relations division at the endoscope and camera maker to its top financial role. The decision comes in light just a few months after the company’s largest shareholders called for him to resign from a post over the accounting fraud. Nambu was also a director at a British medical equipment firm Gyrus, which was acquired by Olympus in 2008 for $2 billion, and for which the company paid a hefty $687 million advisory fee as a part of complex web of transactions...
With having 5.8 percent stake in Yahoo, Third Point’s Daniel Loeb has move a step further with his company ongoing battle with Yahoo, launched a website name ValueYahoo.com in order to call up for a management shakeup at the online media company. The site goes live on Monday, links to articles covering the proxy fight and biographies of four proposed board nominees. Loeb...
The search giant Google plans to continue its investment in China, where it has a rough relationship with the government over the time. The company is planning to invest with a focus on its fast-growing display and advertising businesses. Google currently has more than 500 employees in China and it said it plans to keep the number stable at this stage. Alegre said Google can serve as a platform for the vast number of small and medium enterprises in China to access global consumers. “We’ve never left China,” Alegre said....
The scandal-hit Japanese Olympus still somewhere in the middle to recovered from the huge accounting scandal but there is still something good to happen with the company as it is hoping to be on the recovery mode without bringing in any new investors. The maker of medical equipment and cameras has been badly weakened by the $1.7 billion fraud, one of Japan’s biggest...
