When you're a company as big as Apple, saving on tax bills is important — especially when they're in the billions. Fortunately its team of accountants has just managed to save it a cool $9.2 billion (£6 billion). Read More >>
Featured comment by Someone Else:
"Fair enough, to be honest I had forgotten that yesterdays article concerned the new allegations, thought it was just about the morally dubious but leg..." More »
If you already feel a little hard done by when it comes to your paycheque, brace yourself. Bloomberg reports that four of the five best-paid executives across the whole of the US are employed by Apple — and just wait until you hear how much they earn. Read More >>
Featured comment by chmielify:
"Please, more news about execs. We really enjoy them! I would love to know what are favourite colours of the most prominent execs and why is it black a..." More »
Sharp has just announced that it's getting a £73 million shot in the arm from Samsung. In turn, that will help guarantee Sammy as many LCD panels as it can use. Read More >>
It's no secret that BlackBerry has seen better days, despite the recent introduction of new phones. But one of its bright spots is BlackBerry Messenger, and now, according to Bloomberg, it's looking into adding a money transfer service to this product. Read More >>
For once, Nokia's earnings report isn't the kind of thing which makes investors weep like small children. In the fourth quarter of 2012 the Finns became successful once more — netting a £370 million profit. Read More >>
Featured comment by T:
"It's still a big number for a company that struggles to sell £129 tablet, I'm surprised they broke even and made a profit after all." More »
Despite releasing a handful of stellar handsets, the end of last year brought bad news for HTC. The company's posted a profit of just £21.5 million for the final quarter of 2012 — its lowest ever since 2004. Read More >>
Featured comment by aenimiac:
"As other's have said, I'm not surprised given the fact that they seem to release new handsets every two minutes and drop support for their old ones as..." More »
The NASDAQ-100 is a stock market index which tracks the performance of the largest non-financial companies in the world. Yawn. But every year, it gets a little reshuffle to keep it fresh and relevant — and the changes can be rather telling. Read More >>
Featured comment by Simalacrum:
"Seriously dude? Do I even need to explain the difference between a website and a multi-billion dollar corporation?
Giz, as far as I can tell, is no..." More »
To try and make up for the fact that it's struggling financially, Nokia has sold it HQ building in Espoo, Finland. But it's not moving it out. Read More >>
Featured comment by ScyBy:
"Well yes, they've got a long way to fall, but they're falling fast. Also, I wasn't suggesting that the 170m would actually help much...
http://uk.r..." More »
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Japanese manufacturer Sharp is in serious talks with a number of US companies to try and save its finances. It plans to offer up stakes in the business in return for a "stable supply of breakthrough display technology". Read More >>
Credit agency Fitch has downgraded its views of both Sony and Panasonic, dropping the two tech giants to "junk" status. Which is business speak for "don't buy shares in these two as they could go broke." Read More >>
Featured comment by elevenses:
"Never had an issue with Panasonic stuff, even 10 year old TV's and Video recorders! Utterly reliable gear IMHO.
Same cannot be said for Samsung, wh..." More »
A lot of average Joes put on their faux-finance cap during the Facebook IPO and hoped it would get them rich. Everyone uses Facebook therefore everyone wants to buy Facebook stock, the logic went. Yeah, it didn't work out that way. I'm sure a lot of people lost money. One poor woman, Uma Swaminathan, lost her entire life savings and kinda wants a re-do. Read More >>
Featured comment by Spazturtle:
"The thing is that Facebook withheld a report that showed that they had made a loss, they where required by law to publish it befor the IPO but they de..." More »
According to an international financial statement filed by Apple, the company manages to pay just 1.9 per cent income tax on its earnings outside the US, meaning it pays a mere £446-odd million in tax on earnings of about £23 billion. Read More >>
Featured comment by tsjmcgrath:
"Nor me, as it was already revealed on The Revolution Will Be Televised, if I'm right in saying. And you were missing out if you didn't watch that seri..." More »
It's easy to get caught up in the Wall Street expectations game, under whose rules Google just had a disastrous third quarter. But while earnings were down significantly year over year, the company still hauled in over £1.3 billion of income on £8.7 billion of revenue. That's got to count for something, right? Read More >>
Featured comment by Prozac:
"Obviously you're not too familiar with anything you're talking about, judging from your words "..relativity of gravity..", so I'm going to leave this ..." More »
Nokia has just announced a total operating loss of £467 million for the third quarter of 2012, a drop in its net cash from £4 billion last year to £3.4 billion now, and declining Lumia sales. Oh dear. Read More >>
HTC is continuing to suffer. Despite the launch of its well-received One X, the latest financial results show that the company's profits have dropped 79 per cent from last year. Read More >>
Featured comment by jimbo:
"HTC's problem is simply that "they lack Apple or Samsung's marketing muscle"
Or to phrase that in a more honest way
"One of HTC's problems is that..." More »