PCB and flexible PCB (FPCB) suppliers are expected to post mixed results for the second quarter of 2015 as orders from the iPhone 6 supply chain are expected to begin to subside and demand from the notebook sector will remain flag, ...
Tags: PCB, flexible PCB
Mixed bag of results in toy giant's YTD financial results with net sales down domestically but international increase. Toys R Us Inc. is ‘pleased with its efforts to strengthen and transform’ its business as year-to-date ...
Tags: Mixed bag, pricing strategy, Toys
Nippon Paper Industries will likely report a 25% year-on-year increase in operating profit to around 13 billion yen ($118 million) for the six months ending Tuesday, falling short of a prior projection of 16 billion yen amid soft corporate ...
Tags: Paper, printing paper, Office Supplies
Hospital equipment maker Hill-Rom(Batesville,IN)plans on cutting approximately 350 workers,or 5%of its global workforce,to save roughly$30 million annually.The restructuring efforts include a downsizing of the firm's European manufacturing ...
Tags: Medtech, Hill-Rom, restructuring
Shipments of application processors for smartphone applications to China grew 2.4% sequentially and 20.8% on year in the fourth quarter of 2013, according to data compiled by Digitimes Research. MediaTek saw its AP shipments decline 3.9% ...
Tags: Smartphone, TD-SCDMA
Farm equipment manufacturers report strong sales heading into the fourth quarter of 2013. According to the Association of Equipment Manufacturers' latest report (issued in August), U.S. unit retail sales showed double-digit growth in most ...
Tags: Farm Machinery, Manufacturing, Processing Machinery, Farm equipment
Shimano's sales climbed to $2.03 billion (199.501 billion yen) over the first nine months of the year, up from $1.86 billon (182.739 billion yen) over the same period last year. Shimano's bicycle sales grew 9 percent to $1.62 billion ...
Tags: Transportation, bike
The Honda Insight and CR-Z could be dropped in Europe due to slow sales in the market, according to the latest reports. Said to occur ahead of the arrival of the pair’s next-generation replacements, speculatively slated for ...
Tags: Honda Insight, CR-Z Hybrids
Infiniti Australia has slashed pricing across its range as it aims to boost languishing sales of its local line-up. Price cuts of between $7500 and $13,100 apply across the luxury Japanese manufacturer’s G37 coupe and convertible, M ...
Taiwan-based IC design companies have seen their order visibility for September remain unclear, predicting third-quarter sales will grow within a range of 10% sequentially, according to industry sources. Recent reports of slow sales of ...
Tags: IC Design Firms, IC vendors
Microsoft is bringing its Outlook email program to Windows 8 RT in a bid to expand the availability of Windows tablets based on low-power ARM processors. Outlook will be included with version 8.1 of Windows RT, known previously as Windows ...
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A boutique system builder has bucked the industry trend of slumping PC sales by continuing to focus on selling Windows 7 machines. Auburn, Wash.-based Puget Systems grew sales 20% in 2012, said Jon Bach, president of the independent PC ...
Tags: PC, Computer Products, Windows 7
The average run rate at "teapot" refineries in China's Shandong province dropped to 36.5% in April from 42% in March, due to slow sales of oil products, according to data from Beijing-based energy information provider JYD Commodities Hub. ...
Tags: Apr, oil products
Don't blame Windows 8 for plummeting PC sales, a retail analyst said today. "It wasn't about Windows 8, it was much more about the price challenges facing OEMs," said Stephen Baker of the NPD Group, citing U.S. retail sales data the firm ...
Tags: Computer Products, software, Windows 8, apple
Amazon on Wednesday lowered the starting price of its large-screen 8.9-in. Kindle Fire HD tablet in the U.S. to $269 for the Wi-Fi version and $399 for the 4G version. The price cuts, from $299 for the Wi-Fi version and from $499 for the ...
Tags: Amazon, Kindle Fire HD, Kindle product line