A parking ticket which tells you to scram has been invented by the private car parking enforcement agency FlashPark.
A version is being worked on which will allow motorists to reply.
FlashPark sell the talking ticket to private landowners as a way of ameliorating the confrontational approach to enforcing parking…
Samsung may become Sharp’s biggest shareholder reports Japan’s Daily Yomiuri newspaper.
Back in March, Samsung paid $105m for 3% of Sharp. Now it is reported that Samsung is thinking of paying ‘tens of billions of yen’ for more Sharp shares to make the Korean colossus Sharp’s largest…
Six and a half years after being taken over by a private equity consortium led by KKR, NXP is still juggling its debt.
KKR et al put a $6bn debt load on the company back in 2006 to defray the cost of the purchase. That $6bn has been reduced by…
The CEO retires – before his retirement date.
The assumption is he’s been ‘asked’ to go.
The firm takes six months looking for a new CEO.
The assumption is that finding a new CEO is tricky.
The COO is made the CEO.
The assumption is the search process failed…
Apple, a company with $145 billion of cash has borrowed $17 billion by way of bond sales.
Apple says it will spend $55 billion buying back its stock.
The stock has fallen from $700 to $385 in the last six months.
The company has just made its first quarterly loss…
An interesting week. On Tuesday Intel reports Q1. The question is: Will Paul Otellini, during his last quarterly report, also announce his successor?
Otellini resigned last November two years before he was due to retire under Intel’s 65 year-old retirement rule…
The formidable US Judge Lucy Koh has paved the way for a massive class action law-suit against Intel, Apple, Google, Pixar, Adobe, Lucasfilm and Intuit.
“The sustained personal efforts by the corporations’ own chief executives, including but not limited to Apple CEO Steve Jobs, Google CEO Eric Schmidt, Pixar…
Samsung’s ‘Kill Taiwan’ strategy is a non-starter. DigiTimes reports a speech by TSMC CEO Morris Chang which poo-poos the Korean company’s aspirations to take the foundry industry from Taiwan.
Chang points out that TSMC has technological leadership. TSMC had all the 28nm production last year and…