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Jung-Ah Lee, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Mobile on November 3, 2011 at 9:50 am PT
LG Electronics Inc.’s board approved a plan to raise $940 million via a rights offering, news that sent shares of the South Korean consumer electronics firm down by more than 13 percent Thursday.
Arik Hesseldahl in News on July 3, 2011 at 2:26 pm PT
The release of Hewlett-Packard’s TouchPad tablet — its answer to Apple’s iPad — may not have brought out many consumers lining up to buy it. But it did bring out the gearheads wanting to take it apart, see what’s going on inside and make an educated guess on what it cost to build.
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Yun-Hee Kim, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on March 3, 2011 at 10:02 am PT
Apple Inc.’s latest iPad is a mixed blessing for many of Asia’s electronic companies, which stand to benefit from a surge in demand for components but will see their already battered ambitions to make their own tablets challenged further.
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Daisuke Wakabayashi, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on January 7, 2011 at 10:47 am PT
Hammered by ever-slimming profit margins, TV makers are turning online to videogames as another way to incorporate Web-delivered entertainment.
At this week’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, many television manufacturers touted videogames as an important entertainment category for Internet-connected televisions.
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Peter Kafka in Media on December 19, 2010 at 6:02 pm PT
Conventional wisdom on Google TV: Not ready for prime time. Google apparently agrees: It has asked Toshiba, LG and Sharp not to show off their versions of the Web TV platform at the Consumer Electronics Show next month, the
New York Times reports. But Samsung will display a new Google TV set on the show floor. And if you ask nicely, Vizio will show you one in private. Here’s Walt Mossberg’s November 17 review–”
No Need to Tune In Just Yet.”
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Voices in News on September 17, 2010 at 2:34 am PT
Failure to keep up in the smartphone race has
cost another CEO his job. Today, just a week after
Nokia bounced Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, the board of South Korea’s LG Electronics, the world’s third-biggest maker of mobile phones, said that “Nam Yong offered to resign as CEO to take responsibility for the flagging performance.” He’ll be replaced by Koo Bon-joon, the younger brother of LG Group chairman Koo Bon-moo.
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Loretta Chao, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on September 1, 2010 at 5:00 am PT
Sony Ericsson Chief Executive Bert Nordberg said Tuesday that he expects smartphone use in China to expand to half of all mobile-phone users in the country within five years, as the company joins other global handset makers in shifting its focus to higher-end devices.
