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...INDICATORS Printer Jammed Shares in Hewlett-Packard slid after third-quarter net earnings of $586 million came in below market expectations. Citing poor performance at the computer maker's business server and storage unit, CEO Carly Fiorina promptly fired three executives...
Deck trinkets for the gourmet crowd include a $1,700 ice cream maker and a giant rotisserie grill. This KitchenAid boasts a fridge, a sink...
...have met its match. More and more employers in France, Germany and the Netherlands are giving their workers a stark choice: agree to longer hours or wave goodbye to your job as it migrates to another country. Last week, an overwhelming majority of the 820 employees of auto-parts maker Robert Bosch who work at a Bosch factory near Lyons voted to give up their 35-hour week in return for a guarantee that their jobs would not be moved to Eastern Europe. "Everyone had come to accept the fatality of it - either they approved it or they lost their...
...mobile phones operating on the cdma standard (a type of mobile-phone technology popular in Korea and North America). It makes dazzling flat-screen televisions and other leading-edge gadgets. LG.Philips LCD, a joint venture formed in 1999 with the Netherlands' Royal Philips Electronics, became the world's biggest maker of the lcd panels used in flat-screen TVs and monitors in 2003, with 22% of the global market. A good chunk of those are sold in Europe. According to the Austin, Texas-based market research firm DisplaySearch, about 40% of all lcd monitors...
...markets as well. I can be more successful with Samsung's success." LG's first crack at the U.S. market ended in disappointment. Beginning in the 1980s, LG sold cheap TVs under the brand Goldstar, after the company's former name, Lucky-Goldstar. In 1995, LG purchased American TV maker Zenith Electronics Corp. and began using that moniker on its products. But four years later, Zenith filed for bankruptcy, a victim of cutthroat competition. To avoid a repeat of that failure, LG was content until recently to supply other companies with appliances that they sell in the U.S. under their...