Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is probably not a happy man today, with the company reporting disappointing fourth quarter 2011 earnings , including a dramatic 58% decline in net income. Many analysts were unsure where Amazon would stand this past quarter with the launch of the much-hyped US$199 Kindle Fire tablet
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For months, Research in Motion (RIM), the Canadian maker of BlackBerry smartphones, has seemed incapable of getting anything right. Its PlayBook tablet went on sale without e-mail (unless attached to a BlackBerry). Its network was blacked out for days with scarcely a word from the company. It has
Remember the old joke about the dim tailor who makes a loss on each piece of clothing but hopes to make it up in volume? That describes the market for flat-panel screens for televisions. None of the companies that produce liquid crystal display (LCD) panels — Samsung and LG Display from South Korea
Most people running a business that could end up on the wrong end of a lawsuit would keep a low profile. Not Kim Dotcom. The boss of Megaupload, a popular website that let users store and share music, films and other content, Dotcom went out of
Apple has announced that John Browett, the now former CEO of UK-based Dixons Retail, will join the company as senior vice president of its retail division. “Our retail stores are all about customer service, and John shares that commitment like no one else we’ve met