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The Monsoon flooding in Thailand last October took a toll on many businesses if not all of them. The main victims of the catastrophe ranged from automobile makers with the likes of vendors of Toyota and Honda to electronic makers like hard drive manufacturers. More affected by the ordeal US population, being the biggest market […]
Western Digital was widely expected to take a huge hit from the Thailand flooding. Western Digital, which makes disk drives, couldn’t get components out of its suppliers, which were mostly in Thailand. Overall, Western Digital’s fiscal second quarter earnings held up well. CEO John Coyne said: We’ve made substantial progress in our mission to restore […]
Bottom line: Western Digital held its own and the fallout could have been much worse. Steve Luczo, CEO of Seagate, said his company has weathered the Thailand flooding better than most. Why? First, Seagate’s operations were relatively unscathed. Second, the supply chain is diversified. Luczo said on Seagate’s earnings conference call: “The disaster in Thailand […]
Luczo added that the company isn’t maximizing profits—average selling price per unit was $13 higher, but costs were $2.50 higher. Seagate’s plan is to give suppliers a break on pricing in exchange for longer term contracts. The strategy is paying off in the short and long runs. Seagate blew away its December quarter earnings (non-GAAP […]
Microsoft Corporation’s mobile operating software, Windows Phone 7, has the potential of going places. It is flamboyant and light weight at the same time. It requires less-expensive hardware, single-core processors at tops and RAM in MBs. Therefore, the overall expense of handset has a medium effect on the wallet at best. However, the market is […]
The next generation of Windows Phones will be on the drawing board now, and while the end user experience of the current handsets is appreciated, with Android pushing multi-core and big numbers on the spec sheet, the hardware for Windows Phone will need to follow. The argument that it doesn’t matter to the end user […]
(Reuters) – About a year ago, when it became clear that taking Facebook Inc public was a matter of when not if, Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg went out and poached Caroline Everson, then global advertising head at Microsoft Corp. Landing an executive with Everson’s pedigree was a coup – prior to Microsoft, she was […]
(Reuters) – It’s the year’s hottest initial public offering, but some wealth managers find themselves having a hard time recommending Facebook to their clients. The world’s biggest social network is expected to seek a $75 billion to $100 billion valuation in its IPO, the most anticipated stock offering from Silicon Valley since Google Inc went […]
(Reuters) – Internet activist group Anonymous published a recording on Friday of a confidential call between FBI agents and London detectives in which the law-enforcement agents discuss action they are taking against hacking. British police said they were investigating reports of the illegally recorded call, and the FBI said a criminal investigation was under way […]
EA and DICE have put a lot of work into making Battlefield 3 stand out from the rest of the FPS pack and newspakistan.pk looks into some of the game’s Unique Selling Points. The FPS or First-person shooter market is perhaps the most congested and saturated markets in the world of gaming with more titles […]
Facebook filed their S-1 document at the Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday, February 02. The move to go public in the summers will certainly lure much wanted cash to the California-based company. Analysts have estimated the net worth of the company in 2012 to be in tune of around $80 to $90 Billion, up […]
In the congested first-person shooter market, two games stand out and have divided gamers straight down the middle, but which game should one spend their hard earned money on? Killzone 3, Halo Reach, Homefront, Resistance 3, Left 4 Dead 2 and a number of other shooter dominate what is one of the most competitive markets […]
