Apple may face a legal battle with Fujitsu of Japan and STMicroelectronics, Europe’s largest chipmaker, over use of the iPad name for its tablet computer. STMicro trademarked the name for its proprietary semiconductor technology in 2000 in Europe and has been using the name since.
Fujitsu has made a handheld computer called the iPad for use by shop assistants since 2002, and has an outstanding trademark application for the name.
El Fondo Monetario Internacional mejora en una décima las previsiones para el PIB español en 2010, pero aun así la sitúa como la única gran economía en recesión en este ejercicio (-0,6%), según publica hoy el organismo en su informe Perspectivas de la Economía Mundial.
General Motors struck a preliminary deal Tuesday to sell its Swedish unit Saab to Spyker Cars, a tiny Dutch maker of high-end sports cars, saving Saab from what seemed like certain extinction after earlier bids had collapsed.
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Taking over Saab will be a huge leap for Spyker, which sells 30 to 50 made-to-order cars a year for about a quarter-million dollars each. In 2008, Saab produced more than 90,000 cars. And while Saab has 3,400 workers, mainly in Trollhattan, Spyker has just 110.
Today, 8-18 year-olds devote an average of 7 hours and 38 minutes (7:38) to using entertainment media across a typical day (more than 53 hours a week). And because they spend so much of that time ‘media multitasking’ (using more than one medium at a time), they actually manage to pack a total of 10 hours and 45 minutes (10:45) worth of medi.
"Por primera vez en la historia de la telefonía móvil, en noviembre se ha producido un empate en esta región entre Nokia y Samsung, tras vender cada una 3,5 millones de terminales, lo que les otorga una cuota del 31%, según datos de GFK. En el total de Europa, la coreana ha registrado 31,1% de cuota, con lo que se ha quedado a 2,5 puntos de Nokia. "
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Nestle SA plans to unveil drinks to fight malnutrition among the elderly today in an effort to revive its nutrition business, which has trailed sales and profit forecasts every year since they were set in 2006.
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The Vevey, Switzerland-based maker of Kit Kat bars and Nescafe coffee is struggling to keep pace with smaller rival Danone SA in health and medical nutrition, a market that Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. says is growing at 9 percent a year. Nestle’s nutrition sales rose 2 percent in the first nine months of 2009, short of the 11 percent growth in Danone’s medical nutrition unit and a fifth of the Swiss company’s long-term goal.
"Volkswagen is bent on displacing Toyota as the world's biggest car company—and it just may succeed
When Volkswagen CEO Martin Winterkorn said two years ago that he was determined to zoom past Toyota to become the world's biggest automaker, the notion seemed laughable. At the time, the German automaker sold 3 million fewer vehicles than Toyota, was losing ground in the U.S., and had a reputation for iffy quality. Toyota, then set to pass General Motors as the best-selling carmaker on the planet, seemed unassailable.
Today Toyota is vulnerable, and Winterkorn's ambitions seem a lot less outlandish. In November, for the first time, VW built more cars than its Japanese rival. Toyota still sells more each year, but VW has closed the gap to less than 1.5 million cars. Quality continues to be an issue for VW in the U.S., but Toyota is the one suffering negative headlines after a series of embarrassing recalls. Toyota's CEO—in an act of extreme self-flagellation—has even said his company's best days may be behind it.
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Heineken said Monday that it would buy the beer operations of Femsa, one of Mexico’s biggest brewers, in an all-share transaction that values the business at $7.6 billion. The move further consolidates the beer industry into a few global players.
The move will make Heineken a “more competitive player in Latin America, one of the world’s most profitable and fastest-growing beer markets,” Jean-François van Boxmeer, chairman and chief executive of the Nethlerlands-based company, said in a statement.
La Chine devient le premier exportateur mondial:
"En publiant ses données économiques pour le mois de décembre, la Chine est devenue le premier exportateur mondial, ravissant cette place largement symbolique à l'Allemagne.
Les exportations chinoises ont augmenté de 17,7 % au mois de décembre en glissement annuel, selon les chiffres des douanes cités par la télévision d'Etat, pour s'établir à à 130,7 milliards de dollars. Dans l'ensemble de l'année 2009, la Chine a exporté pour plus de 1 200 milliards de dollars. Excédentaire, la Chine a également enregistré un solde positif de 195 milliards de dollars sur l'année. "
Google's Eric Schmidt on why bankers deserve little sympathy and Obama does - Telegraph: "Eric Schmidt, the chief executive of Google, tells Kamal Ahmed why America
needs to take its share of the blame for the financial crisis and what 2010
holds for the world economy."
Honda to boost annual world production by 6 percent: report: "TOKYO (Reuters) - Automaker Honda Motor Co plans to produce 3.59 million units in the world next financial year to start in April, up 6 percent from this financial year's outlook on rising sales, Asahi newspaper reported on Saturday.
Japan's public debt is very high but is not a serious problem in the short-term as private savings are abundant and investors continue to buy government bonds, a senior International Monetary Fund official told the Nikkei newspaper.
Growth in China's exports and imports last month blew past expectations, providing fresh evidence of the vigor of the economy and strengthening the case for Beijing to let the yuan start climbing again.
