Sony Ericsson intends to hang in by a thread and fight for its space in the high-end mobile handset segment. It announced on Thursday the launch of the flagship Xperia arc smart phone based on the Android platform, Wall Street Journal reported.
John Lipsky, the first deputy managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), has said 2011 will be a pivotal year for the global economic recovery and for international policy cooperation, adding that it's also a crucial year for the Fund as it will try to address these principal challenges.
The Japanese motor major Honda Motor Company in Japan has put an estimated 2.2 million customers in the U.S. on a security breach alert after a database containing information on the owners and their cars was hacked, according to reports.
Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan laid out plans to revive the economy in 2011 in his New Year remarks. While his proposals may boost some sectors of the economy, they miss the point.
Japanese researchers at the Kyoto University have broken the rare earth import jinx as they have created a new alloy which resembles rare metal palladium, bringing a sigh of relief to countries depending on Chinese exports of rare earth metals.
The top pre-market NASDAQ stock market gainers are: XOMA, ATP Oil & Gas, Sonic, DryShips, Qiao Xing Universal Resources, Melco Crown Entertainment, Star Scientific, Logitech International, Microvision, and Asia Entertainment & Resources.
India’s third biggest software services company Wipro Ltd is building the nation’s fastest supercomputer for space agency Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) to help the agency crunch large volumes of data that is critical for designing complex launch vehicles.
S&P Equity Research predicts big developments for the Internet segment in 2011, including continuing challenges for Google, changes at Yahoo, and a cloud offering from Apple.
Hope, despair, promises and more promises. World leaders have spelled out their intent, or say an 'action plan' for the coming year. Note them all, some merely possible, some probably intricate others perhaps a bunch of lies.
These predictions come from Richard Kang, Chief Investment Officer and Director of Research at Emerging Global Shares, an ETF company focused on the emerging markets.
The China government may slash export quotas of rare earth mineral by half in 2011, according to China Securities Journal, after Beijing raised international concern by cutting exports of the minerals next year.
Toyota Motor Corporation has agreed to pay $32.4 million in fines to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) over delays in reporting safety defects in its vehicles on two separate occasions.
More than one in five TVs shipped this year were in some way connected.
Global transportation network, Korean Air will launch its first A380 service in May 2011 with the entire upper deck of the aircraft devoted to business class flyers.
Warning seems redundant when the 3DS is supposed to broaden the gaming market and is positioned at 7 to 77-years old.
Nintendo issues a warning on its Japanese blog that young children should avoid playing the 3DS when 3-D images are in play.
Increased solar activity could give residents of the continental U.S., southern Europe and Japan the chance to see the northern lights for the first time in several years.
The news about jobs, deficits, and poverty seem to get worse in the western nations and Japan day by day, while the economic and financial developments in the emerging markets appear to get rosier.
South Korean President Lee Myung-bak was forceful, even bellicose, in speaking about North Korea on Monday. But on Wednesday, Lee struck a conciliatory note, expressing a desire for dialogue with his country's difficult neighbor to the north
Molycorp (NYSE: MCP) is rising following the decision by China to cut its exports of rare earth materials next year.
China-based Perfect World, an online game developer, has announced the launch of unlimited closed beta testing for Empire of the Immortals, a new MMORPG for the Company's Immortals franchise.
2010 will be remembered as the worst year for automobile industry. A number of leading car makers including Toyota, Honda, GM, BMW, Hyundai, Nissan, Ford, Chevrolet recalled lakhs of vehicles because of various defects and safety problems.
