Zombie-like in its persistence,talk of a cheaper iPhone again shuffled into view this week,with sources as varied as the spotty DigiTimes to the more mainstream Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg claiming Apple will enter the low-price fray ...
Tags: Apple, smartphone market, J.Gold Associates
US milk processor Golden Guernsey, once owned by Dean Foods, has gone into administration. Owner OpenGate Capital yesterday (8 January) announced the Wisconsin-based firm had filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in Delaware bankruptcy court. ...
Tags: Dairy firm, Dairy, milk processor, Foods
The Taiwan-based solar supply chain is likely to enter a period of consolidation. For upstream material providers, consolidation between downstream customers may create pressure on their costs. Digitimes recently sat down with Chi-jen Chen, ...
Tags: solar industry, solar supply chain, solar, solar materials
Intel executives plan to accelerate new mobile device experiences across the company’s growing portfolio of smartphone, tablet and Ultrabook offerings, it said at CES in Las Vegas this week. The announcements included a new ...
Tags: Intel, mobile device experiences, smartphone, tablet, Ultrabook offerings
After Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer made a surprise appearance during a Qualcomm keynote at International Consumer Electronics Show(CES),some analysts wondered how married the company is to Snapdragon chips and the ARM-based ecosystem. ...
Tags: Microsoft, Intel-based Windows Phones, CES
It is reported that HRC 2 mm thickness experienced around IRR 4.6 million per tonne rise during week 52. Main reasons behind the rise are lower import level and higher ex rate. Other sizes of HRC were in the same trend as import level has ...
Tags: Iran, Steel Market, Week 52, Flat Products
Long products prices started the week with some declines but improved a little,by middle of the week.Average debar price dropped from IRR 17,513,000 per tonne to IRR 17,250,000 per tonne including 5%VAT. I-beam average price decreased ...
Tags: Iran Steel Market Trend, in week 51, Long products prices declines
Microsoft won't have its signature mega-booth at International CES 2013 starting next week in Las Vegas,but that's not expected to lessen the trade show's impact,or largesse. Show organizers said there will be 3,200 exhibitors and they ...
Tags: Microsoft, CES 2013, Intel chips, show
While analysts are generally in consensus in forecasting Brent crude to average around $110/b in 2013, the surge in North American production and question marks on the timing of new infrastructure has made for a highly divergent set of ...
Tags: Brent crude, crude oil prices, crude oil market, Brent
Tablets are hot-- so hot that IDC just bumped up its global market forecast for the tablet market for 2012 and beyond. The proliferation of Android tablets of various sizes, the trend toward lower prices and the launch of the Apple iPad ...
Tags: IDC, tablet, shipments, global market
Apple will be the world's largest chip buyer this year because of the surge in demand for the company's products, enabling it to command lower prices and quicker delivery, IHS iSuppli said in research released on Wednesday. The company's ...
Tags: Apple, Top Chip Buyer, 2012, Research Firm
An aggressive iPad Mini cannibalization rate could add as few as 3 million tablets to Apple's bottom line in what is shaping up to be a record total for the quarter, an analyst said today. Cannibalization -- as opposed to replacement -- ...
Tags: iPad Mini, cannibalization rate, tablets, Apple, bottom line, the quarter
Unlike rival Microsoft, Apple has consistently been able to get a significant portion of its Mac customers to quickly upgrade to the newest version of OS X, data from a Web measurement company showed. The last three versions of Apple's ...
Tags: Microsoft, Apple, significant portion, Mac customers, OS X
South Korea's oil refiners are likely to face tougher challenges in coming years as President-elect Park Geun-Hye vows consumer-focused policies and tighter business regulations under her economic democratization platform. Park, from ...
Tags: South Korea, oil refiners, economic democratization platform, oil
Negotiations on electro-galvanized steel sheets for Asia have started for shipment of February next year. The Japanese mills seem to have mostly offered USD 30 increase. It is said that Korea's POSCO reduced its prices to USD 730 to 750 ...
Tags: electro galvanized steel sheets, electro galvanized steel, steel