Reportedly, the three major steelmakers in Korea planned to raise the ex-work prices of hot rolled steel products for February due to higher input costs and weak sales. Industry sources said that the scrap prices have jumped substantially ...
Tags: steelmakers, hot rolled steel products, hot rolled steel
Advanced Micro Devices' financial struggles continued in the fourth quarter, with revenue sinking 32 percent due to slow chip sales and charges tied to restructuring and inventory adjustments. AMD reported revenue of US$1.16 billion for ...
Tags: Advanced Micro Devices, revenue, chip sales
Disappointing retail figures – including a slowdown in food sales – and the impact of the recent bad weather could plunge Britain into a triple-dip recession, experts are warning. Snow way to run a business: Each day of ...
Tags: Big Freeze, triple-dip recession, food sales
Computerworld - Weak sales of Windows last quarter dropped the operating system division to its second-lowest share of Microsoft's total revenue since the third quarter of 2009, the period just before the launch of Windows 7. One analyst ...
Tags: Windows, operating system, revenue, Windows Live group
IDG News Service - Lenovo's ThinkPad team plans to release more ultrabook models, and remains "bullish" about the upcoming release of Microsoft's Windows 8, according to company executives, who also said on Monday that the famed PC unit ...
Tags: Lenovo, ThinkPad, ultrabook model, Windows 8, PC unit
Intel will make a major mobile push at the Intel Developer Forum next week as the company tries to remain relevant in a market where tablets and smartphones are becoming an alternative to PCs for everyday computing. Intel is at a critical ...
Tags: Intel, mobile push, tablets, smartphones, PCs
Tech stocks have been climbing recently as key vendors such as Cisco and Lenovo report positive quarterly earnings and the U.S. economy offers glimpses of good news. So far this year, shares in IT companies rose steadily until April and ...
Tags: Tech stocks, Cisco, Lenovo, U.S.economy, Wall Street
Apple may finally be feeling the PC sales slump in the U.S., research firm IDC said Thursday. According to IDC, Apple sold fewer Macs in the U.S. during the second quarter than it did in the same period a year earlier. If the research ...
Intel are set to make a major mobile push at the Intel Developer Forum next week as the company tries to remain relevant in a market where tablets and smartphones are becoming an alternative to PCs for everyday computing. Intel is at a ...
Tags: Intel, mobile push, smartphone, phone market
Europe's wood coatings sector is one in which there are pockets of sluggish growth or even decline but others in which there has recently been strong increases in demand, particularly in Central and Eastern Europe(CEE). It is a relatively ...
The news comes as the paper and corrugated giant posted a lower-than-expected profit last week due to weak sales of consumer packaging in North America and Asia. International Paper said growth will be driven by cost savings projects and ...
According to report, Swiss special steelmaker and distributor Schmolz+Bickenbach said that it sees the steel growth will be outside of EU as European economies remains week and slow recovery from downturn. The company aims on ...
Sales in Staples' international operations for the third quarter were down 12 per cent to US$1.1 billion, reflecting weak sales in Europe and Australia. Economic weakness drove declines in the company's European delivery businesses, as ...
First, ethanol use of corn is running behind the seasonal pace to meet current USDA expectations. Our models are indicating that if the current use of corn for ethanol continues we will fall about 125 million bushels short of current USDA ...
Exports from Italy of extrusion machinery increased in the first half of 2012, while exports of injection moulding machines fell, according to Assocomaplast, the trade group representing the country's plastics and rubber machinery ...
Tags: market view, extrusion machinery