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New Improved Smartphone Gorilla Glass, Now With Added Gorilla
Thursday, July 21, 2016 - 11:56am | 390Corning Incorporated (NYSE: GLW) has unveiled its Corning Gorilla Glass 5, which has a "survival rate" of 80 percent when dropped face-down from 1.6 meters onto "rough, unforgiving surfaces." Innovations "With each successive generation of Corning Gorilla Glass, we have taken cover glass technology...
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Report: Google Plans To Raise $221 Million By Selling Its Stake In Lenovo
Wednesday, June 1, 2016 - 10:06am | 178Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG) is looking to raise $221 million by selling its stake in China-based Lenovo, according to a deal term sheet seen by IFR and reported by Reuters. Reuters noted that Google will offer 371 million shares of the Hong-Kong listed Lenovo at a price range of HK$4.56 to HK$4...
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Another Lackluster Quarter For PC Sales, Says Gartner
Tuesday, April 12, 2016 - 12:18pm | 363According to a report by Gartner, worldwide PC shipments fell 9.6 percent during the first quarter of 2016. Gartner elaborated that total worldwide PC shipments in the first quarter came in at 64.8 million units, marking the sixth consecutive quarter of PC shipment declines. PC shipments dropped...
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Report: IBM Looking To Unload Its Remaining Stake In Lenovo
Wednesday, March 2, 2016 - 10:43am | 108International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE: IBM) is looking to sell its remaining $150 million stake in Lenovo, according to a report by IFR, a Thomson Reuters publication. Reuters, citing the IFR report, noted that IBM is looking to sell its remaining 182 million share stake in Lenovo at a price...
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Qualcomm Signs New Patent License Agreement With Lenovo
Friday, February 19, 2016 - 10:09am | 327QUALCOMM, Inc. (NASDAQ: QCOM) announced after Thursday's market close that it has entered into a new patent license agreement with China-based Lenovo, a provider of consumer, commercial and enterprise technologies including smartphones under the Motorola brand, servers, smart TVs, tablets and PCs....
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Gartner: PC Shipments Fell By 8.3% In Q4, Fifth Consecutive Quarterly Decline
Wednesday, January 13, 2016 - 9:54am | 284Gartner, the world's leading information technology research and advisory company, reported on Tuesday that worldwide PC shipments declined 8.3 percent year-over-year in the fourth quarter of 2015. According to Gartner, worldwide PC shipments totaled 75.7 million units in the quarter,...
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China's Weakness Isn't All Bad
Thursday, September 24, 2015 - 7:41am | 398Ever since the People's Bank of China devalued the yuan and the nation's markets subsequently tumbled, investors have been looking at weakness in one of the worlds largest economies as a negative. While slow growth in China is likely to drag on the global economy as a whole and hurt...
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MKM Comments On Semiconductors, Says This Is Still The 'Golden Age' Of Radio Frequency
Tuesday, April 7, 2015 - 1:45pm | 348In a report published Tuesday, MKM Partners analyst Ian Ing argued that any near-term weakness in Radio Frequency (RF) names represents a buying opportunity as RF names remain a relative value, trading at a discounted multiple to the S&P 500. "While we agree with consensus opinion that...
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3 Reasons BlackBerry Will Never Be Acquired
Monday, March 30, 2015 - 12:55pm | 651First, Benzinga detailed the 10 companies that could acquire BlackBerry Ltd (NASDAQ: BBRY). Now it's time to hear the reasons why other analysts doubt that BlackBerry will ever be acquired. 1. Smartphone Buyouts Don't Have The Best History Throughout history, investors can point to...
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Will Apple Ever Make A Splash In 3D Printing?
Wednesday, February 4, 2015 - 12:35pm | 672Things aren't looking good for Stratasys, Ltd. (NASDAQ: SSYS), as shares plummeted after the company reported weaker-than-expected guidance. Will the company's decline pave the way for new entrants? Analysts weighed in. "I would not be a bit surprised if at some point we see...
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Wells Fargo: Hewlett-Packard Largest PC Market Share Gainer
Tuesday, January 13, 2015 - 11:38am | 188Maynard Um of Wells Fargo commented in a note on Monday that Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE: HPQ) has seen the largest share gain within the PC market. Um notes that on a year-over-year basis, IDC and Gartner reported a 2.4 percent decline and a 1.0 percent year-over-year increase on a...
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Chinese Tech Firms Are Looking To The US For Demand
Thursday, January 8, 2015 - 8:46am | 421Reuters reported that a poll of analysts sees Chinese GDP falling to 7.2 percent in the fourth quarter of 2014, below the nation’s 7.5 percent target and the weakest figure Beijing has published in 24 years. While the nation’s central bank will likely ease further in order to kick-...
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Why 1 Analyst Thinks BlackBerry Is In 'Reinvention Mode'
Wednesday, December 17, 2014 - 4:16pm | 658BlackBerry Ltd (NASDAQ: BBRY) received two Christmas gifts this week: big sales and new money. BlackBerry Classic, the new version of the old BlackBerry handset, had sold out online in North America. It appears that the device is now available for pre-order again and should begin shipping this...
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How These 4 Tech Giants Are Resolving Their China Challenges
Monday, December 8, 2014 - 6:18pm | 972Any company doing business in mainland China faces challenges. Such challenges include, according to the Global Association of Risk Professionals: relationship building, the role of respect, widespread tax evasion, weak internal controls and use of third-party agents. Here are four major...
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Rumored BlackBerry-Lenovo Union Could Be A 'Great' M&A Deal
Monday, October 20, 2014 - 2:57pm | 535Lenovo (OTC: LNVGY) is expected to make an offer to buy BlackBerry Ltd (NASDAQ: BBRY) for $15 per share. The deal could ultimately reach $18 share -- a notable premium over Friday's close of $9.49. The unconfirmed rumor has had a positive effect on BlackBerry's stock, raising the price...