IDG News Service - Chinese PC maker Lenovo said on Thursday net profit in its fiscal first quarter ended June 30 grew by 30% year-over-year, as the company inched closer toward surpassing HP to become the top vendor in the market. ...
Tags: Lenovo, Profit, Mobile Business
Nestle's share price increased this morning (9 August) as the Kit-Kat maker booked an increase in first-half profit and reaffirmed its full-year guidance. The Swiss food giant reported an 8.9% increase in earnings of CHF5.12bn (US$5.26bn) ...
Tags: food, share price, emerging markets, price rises, cost-cutting, water
Global food ingredients manufacturer International Flavors and Fragrances saw its half-year net profits rise after its flavours business delivered a positive performance. Net income for the six months of the year ending 30 June, increased ...
Tags: food, flavors, fragrances, flavours business
Construction equipment manufacturers around the globe will see significant growth over the next few years, as massive infrastructure projects will be required to satisfy population growth and expansion of the middle class in emerging ...
Tags: marketview, Construction Equipment
Driven by the major acquisition of a wastewater pumps business and organic growth, order intake increased significantly by nominal 11% to CHF 2 025 million in the first half of 2012. Adjusted for currency effects as well as acquisitions and ...
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Speculation last week of an impending new iPhone triggered a 70% increase in the number of owners trying to unload their current smartphones, online auctioneer eBay said. Smartphone trade-in offers at eBay's Instant Sale site during the ...
Tags: Smartphone, iPhone, electronic device, US
Dubai FDI, the foreign investment promotion office of the Department of Economic Development (DED), has announced that Dubai will host the "XVII Annual World Investment Conference" of the World Association of Investment Promotion Agencies ...
Tags: market view, cement
The lighting division at Philips has experienced a 6 per cent rise in its comparable sales year-on-year for the second quarter, Lighting division sales rose to €2.026bn in the second quarter of 2012 from €1.777bn in same period ...
Tags: Philips, light sale
Vodafone today confirmed a drop in revenue of 7.7%,with key markets in Europe performing badly. Global revenue was 10.8bn pound for the three months ending 30 June 2012,but the UK,Germany,Italy and Spain all saw reported services revenues ...
Tags: Vodafone, revenue, Europe market
Nokia has announced its second quarter results for 2012 - and they didn't make pleasant reading. A 19% drop in sales, a 39% fall in smartphone shipments and just four million Lumia devices shipped – compare with Apple, which sold 35 ...
Tags: Microsoft, Nokia, Apple, software, Symbian platform, smartphone
Many global organisations could do a lot more to protect their private data and reduce exposure to attacks by hackers,according to KPMG. More than three quarters of organisations in the Forbes 2000 are leaking data,potentially creating ...
Tags: KPMG, Online Risk, hacker attack, security threat
China's Huawei Technologies wants to take a bigger bite out of the enterprise market with a wider range of storage products, months after the company completed an acquisition of its joint venture with U.S. firm Symantec. Huawei is best ...
Tags: Huawei, China, acquisition, Storage Market
MIPS Technologies and China-based mobile system-on-chip firm Actions Semiconductor have announced a design in for an Android 4.0'Ice Cream Sandwich'tablet. The miumiu W1 tablet from China-based tablet manufacturer Ramos incorporates the ...
The Banking Industry Architecture Network (Bian) has called for the adoption of a service-oriented architecture (SOA) framework across the banking and industry and its software and services suppliers to support the move to off-the-shelf ...
Tags: Bian, Commercial Software, software, services, off-the-shelf software
In 2011, the total output of China's fastener up 9.7% to 6.8 million tons and the sales up 10% to 66 billion YUAN while compared with last year, which broke the history record. In the meantime, there were about 200 enterprises whose sales ...
Tags: Industry Trends, Fasteners