The chip maker AMD announced it would remove 10% of its workforce, or 1,400 people, by the first quarter of 2012. It provides and to achieve $ 10 million savings in the fourth quarter 2011 and 118 million in 2012. These cost reductions will be felt primarily at the level of operating expenses, which are expected to [...]
A few months before the deadline he had set to become a business “normal”-growing, profitable and generating cash from the Franco-American said suffer from economic downturn and the reluctance of operators Telecom Europe. Result, Alcatel has revised its target operating margin adjusted to about 4% (against 5% previously forecast) for 2011 and promised further steps to reduce [...]
The manufacturer publishes results up sharply and the luxury of being the first vendor of smartphones in the U.S. in Q3. HTC is truly entered a virtuous circle. Buoyed by the success of his many (many) Android smartphones, Taiwanese once again displays the results to be the envy of a Nokia. For its third quarter, the [...]
With a good 44% of its shipments of smartphones last quarter, Samsung Electronics has, according to figures the firm Strategy Analytics , Apple exceeded as a leading manufacturer of smartphones between July and September. The share of the Korean manufacturer in the market for multimedia handsets in the third quarter amounted to 23.8%, nine points ahead of Apple. [...]
French consumer confidence rebounded in October despite the financial crisis, not compensate for their loss of confidence in September or dissipate their long-term depression, say economists. Consumer confidence has taken two points in October to 82 points, making up some ground lost in September (-5 points) when the indicator was at its lowest level since [...]
Netflix pays dearly for his strategic mistakes in recent months: sharp increase in the price of its subscriptions and split, now abandoned, its DVD rental business by mail and video on demand over the Internet (streaming). The stock has plunged 25% yesterday in after market trading after announcing the loss of 800,000 subscribers in its home [...]
The German government has significantly lowered its growth forecast Thursday for next year, 1% against a previous estimate of 1.8%, announced the Ministry of Economy. The figures, which had already filtered Wednesday, reflecting particularly the darkening of the situation weighed down by the debt crisis that has shaken Europe. Growth will stand at 2.9% this [...]
The U.S. places are about to bring a sixth consecutive week of declines. It would be a first since 2002. The rebound on Wall Street did not last long. After Thursday put an end to six consecutive sessions of decline (which had not happened since February 2009), the U.S. places appear again in the red Friday. They are [...]
French industrial production fell 0.9% in March but was up 2% on the entire first quarter. French industrial production fell 0.9% in March after rising 0.5% in February (revised up 0.1 percentage points), INSEE said on Tuesday. The production of manufacturing industry alone, which excludes mining and construction, also displayed a decrease of 1.0% after rising [...]
Alstom has achieved a turnover of 20.9 billion euros from 1 April 2010 and March 31, 2011, up 6% from last year. Operating profit totaled EUR 1 570 million, representing an operating margin of 7.5%. Net profit reached 462 million euros, strongly affected by non-recurring charges. Net income includes a specific negative impact of 158 million euros [...]
