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Today in Tech: Is Path worth $250 million?
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* Sony (SNE) hasn't had a hit product in years, and expects to lose $6.4 billion this year alone. The New York Times offers an excellent look at Japanese giant's fall from grace. (The New York Times)
* Google (GOOG) co-founder Sergey Brin believes the Internet's underlying principles -- openness and universal access -- are being threatened MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Apr 16, 2012 11:16 AM ET -
Today in Tech: Sony firing 10,000 workers in major restructuring effort
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* It's confirmed: As part of a $926 million restructuring effort, Sony (SNE) will lay off 10,000 employees by the end of March 2013. The struggling Japanese electronics giant also explained its plans to focus on core businesses like gaming, digital imaging, and mobile, as well as hopes of turning around MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Apr 12, 2012 11:00 AM ET -
Today in Tech: Will Sony lay off thousands of employees?
Fortune's curated selection of tech stories from the weekend. Sign up to get the round-up delivered to you each and every day. * Just who exactly is new Research in Motion (RIMM) CEO Thorsten Heins, and how does he intend to turn around the struggling smartphone company? An inside look. (Bloomberg Businessweek) * Sony (SNE) reportedly plans to eliminate 10,000 jobs, or 6% of its workforce, as early as December reports Nikkei. (Nikkei via Reuters) * IBM's MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Apr 9, 2012 3:30 AM ET -
Munster: How Apple becomes the first $1 trillion company
Its market cap today is $577 billion. Where do the next $400-plus billion come from?
In a note to clients issued early Tuesday, Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster raised his Q2 iPhone estimate (to 33 million), set a new 12-month price target ($910 per share) and -- most provocatively -- laid out a roadmap for Apple's (AAPL) market capitalization to go from $576.79 billion as of Monday's close to $1 trillion by MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Apr 3, 2012 7:06 AM ETPosted in: Apple, Dell, Gene Munster, Hewlett-Packard, HP, Market Cap, Market capitalization, Microsoft, Nokia, Piper Jaffray, RIM, Sony -
Ashton Kutcher is not playing Walter Isaacson's Steve Jobs
The star of Twitter and TV sitcoms is doing a quick indie film, not the Sony biopic
The blogosphere lit up Sunday night with the news that Ashton Kutcher, star of Twitter and TV Sitcoms (That 70s Show, Two and a Half Men), had been signed to play the title role in Jobs, a film being described as the story of Steve Jobs' transformation from "wayward hippie" to co-founder of Apple MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Apr 2, 2012 5:47 AM ET -
Today in Tech: With Zuckerberg in Shanghai, is Facebook China inevitable?
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* Apple's (AAPL) Tim Cook visited Foxconn's new iPhone factory in the Zhengzhou Technology Park during his trip to China. (Fortune)
* New Research in Motion (RIMM) CEO Thorsten Heins will give a progress report on the company's turnaround later today when RIM reports its latest earnings. (The Wall Street Journal)
* Mark Zuckerberg MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Mar 29, 2012 10:14 AM ET -
Today in Tech: How Sony's CEO plans to fix the company
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* Sony (SNE) hasn't had a hugely successful device in years, and the company continues to struggle in its quest to marry hardware with content. Here's how new president and CEO Kazuo Hirai plans to expand the PlayStation network company-wide to create a unified content-delivery platform. (Reuters)
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JP Mangalindan, Writer - Mar 27, 2012 12:04 PM ET -
Barcelona blues: Apple reaps most of the cellphone profits
Just in time for this week's Mobile World Congress, a snapshot of where the money goes
To get a sense of what Apple's (AAPL) competitors are up against in Barcelona this week as they unveil their new mobile phone models for the 2012 season, consider the relative size of the solid color profit (and loss) bars in the chart above.
It's the money shot in a series of eye-opening graphs that the inimitable Horace MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Feb 27, 2012 7:24 AM ET -
Video: ABC takes a camera crew inside an iPad factory
Nightline to air its special after the kids are asleep Tuesday at 11:35 p.m. ET and PT
Four years ago, when I first starting writing about Foxconn, it was almost impossible to get a photo of the factory workers who assemble 40% of the world's electronic devices.
Now, 18 suicides, two fatal explosions, an off-Broadway show and a New York Times exposé later, Foxconn has opened the factory where Apple's (AAPL) iPads MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Feb 20, 2012 12:01 PM ET -
Where would U.S. consumer electronics be without Apple?
Down 6% in 2011, that's where, according to the NPD Group
If it weren't for tablets and mobile phones, 2011 would have been a miserable year for the U.S. consumer electronics industry.
Total U.S. retail sales for the year were $144 billion, down 1% from 2010, according to a report issued Monday by the NPD Group.
That might not sound too bad. But sales of PCs, TVs and video game hardware were all down, MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Feb 13, 2012 10:13 AM ET
