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Nokia shares jump 45 per cent on Microsoft tie-up September 3, 2013 A huge technology deal done behind closed doors has been announced, with Microsoft's purchase of Nokia's mobile phone business for €5.44bn (£4.6bn) (release). Nokia shares have jumped 45 per cent on the news. Nokia shares up 45% on the open in response to the Microsoft news, back to 2012 highs. Chart: pic.twitter.com/1ouewLzMyA — David Jones [...]
HTC shares plummet as staff arrested September 2, 2013 TAIWANESE smartphone manufacturer HTC saw its shares tumble yesterday on the news that senior executives have been arrested leaking commercial secrets. Shares of the Taipai-listed company fell five per cent in trading as police confirmed four design directors were arrested on Friday. Prosecutors in Taiwan said yesterday that Thomas Chien, HTC vice president of product [...]
Samsung to beat Apple to the finish line in smartwatch race August 27, 2013 KOREAN electronics giant Samsung will reveal its smartwatch concept next week, just days ahead of Apple’s rumoured 10 September iPhone event. The Galaxy Gear smartwatch will be unveiled at a launch event in Berlin on 4 September, Lee Young Hee, vice president of Samsung mobile confirmed yesterday. Hee told The Korea Times in an interview [...]
What the other papers say this morning – 27 August 2013 August 26, 2013 FINANCIAL TIMES MPs step up campaign to break up RBS MPs are stepping up their campaign for a break-up of Royal Bank of Scotland amid suspicions in Westminster that RBS and Treasury officials will try to scupper a good bank-bad bank split. In a letter in today’s Financial Times, the influential Parliamentary Commission on Banking [...]
Microsoft board weighs options for new leader August 26, 2013 APPLE’S co-founder yesterday warned Microsoft against resting on its laurels as the company starts its search for a new chief executive. Steve Wozniak, who joined forces with Steve Jobs to launch Apple’s first personal computers, told the BBC that the company behind Windows had offered customers dated products and “no really great new surprises” in [...]
Brand Index: Blackberry’s new model failed to stem its brand decline August 26, 2013 THERE was a spike for BlackBerry on Twitter on Monday with 41 per cent of the UK Twitter population exposed to messages about the brand. They were of course hearing the news that the mobile phone manufacturer is setting up a committee to explore potential business model options, including selling off the company. So what [...]
New York markets paralysed August 22, 2013 TRADING in more than 3,000 US firms was suspended for over three hours yesterday, as a mysterious technical issue brought the Nasdaq stock exchange to a halt. The unprecedented suspension just after midday left investors unable to trade popular tech shares such as Apple, Google, Facebook and Microsoft. Nasdaq blamed a problem with distributing share price [...]
New York Report: Shares close higher despite Nasdaq outage August 22, 2013 US STOCKS closed higher yesterday in a trading session marred by a historic trading halt of roughly three hours on the Nasdaq stock exchange as a result of technical problems. All traffic through Nasdaq OMX Group, the second-largest US stock exchange stopped at 12:14pm Eastern Time, the exchange said on its website. Shares in Nasdaq [...]
The Nasdaq is broken August 22, 2013 US stock exchanges halted the trading of all securities on the Nasdaq stock exchange today following reports of a technical issue in the data feed for Nasdaq-listed securities. The exchange announced the halt at 17:15 (British Summer Time). Other exchanges followed suit and notices of halts in individual securites began from 17:18 in alphabetical order [...]
Trading on Nasdaq securities stopped due to technical issues August 22, 2013 US stock exchanges today stopped trading in all securities listed on the Nasdaq due to a technical issue in the data feed providing market data for Nasdaq-listed securities. Nasdaq-listed stocks represent about 28 per cent of all shares traded so far this month, according to BATS Global Markets. Companies listed on the Nasdaq include Apple, [...]