Daisuke Wakabayashi in News on May 15 at 10:49 am PT
Sony Corp. and Panasonic Corp. are in talks to jointly develop or produce next-generation flat-panel television sets, people familiar with the matter said Tuesday, in a move that aims to defray the heavy cost of manufacturing a new display technology.
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Deborah Gage, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on May 3 at 7:00 am PT
Last August, Sandra Kurtzig — one of Silicon Valley’s first female chief executives and the first one to take a technology company public — emerged from retirement with $10.5 million in funding and a new start-up: Kenandy, a company based in Redwood City, Calif., whose software is designed to manage manufacturing processes from the cloud.
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Ben Fox Rubin, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on April 19 at 2:40 pm PT
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. swung to a first-quarter loss as the chip maker continued to bear costs related to its spun-off foundry business, though its core earnings improved.
Anna Molin and Sven Grundberg in Mobile on March 22 at 9:49 am PT
Nokia Corp., the world’s largest handset maker by shipments, said Thursday it has completed negotiations with its labor unions over jobs cuts at its Salo plant in Finland.
The cuts are part of a plan announced last month to cut about 4,000 jobs at smartphone manufacturing plants at Salo, Reynosa in Mexico and Komarom in Hungary, in a push to move device assembly closer to components suppliers in Asia.
Arik Hesseldahl in News on March 19 at 4:18 pm PT
Mike Daisey — the lying, Apple-attacking monologuist — is still trying to seize the moral high ground on the matter of Apple, Foxconn and workers’ rights in China.
Arik Hesseldahl in Media on March 18 at 6:06 am PT
Now we have to start the conversation about Apple and Foxconn and workers’ rights all over again, this time with real, verifiable facts at our command. Is that so much to ask?
Arik Hesseldahl in News on March 16 at 3:19 pm PT
Another iPad release day spurs another round of teardowns, and at least one cost estimate.
Ina Fried in Mobile on February 8 at 12:55 am PT
The Finnish cellphone maker plans to reduce the amount of work done at plants in Hungary, Mexico and Salo, Finland.
Arik Hesseldahl in News on January 26 at 3:10 pm PT
President Obama likes Intel. And why wouldn’t he?
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Ina Fried in Mobile on January 25 at 2:37 pm PT
Nokia said on Wednesday that it had sold a phone-making site in Romania to Italian appliance maker De’ Longhi. No terms of the deal were announced, but Nokia said it should be final this quarter and that De’ Longhi met the company’s goal of finding a buyer committed to creating manufacturing jobs at the site.
