Low fat. No money down. Mission accomplished. Occasionally, the folks behind a product feel the need to paint a picture that isn't necessarily true to lure in the unsuspecting masses. Be it a purport

The days of soaring stock prices and luxury flights have passed for airlines around the globe, but the new reality of cost-cutting and consolidation could keep the major legacy carriers from being pe

Enter the Dragon!There was a time, about a decade ago, that Cisco (CSCO) executives would comment that Huawei was so good at copying (aka appropriating) Cisco’s technology that it even replicat

In a world as globalized as ours, it's hard to believe that there are drool-worthy products out there that you can't buy at the mall downtown, or anywhere in the country. But they exist.Take Coke. Su

If I wasn’t so in tune with news surrounding Apple (AAPL), I'd never have known that the iPhone launched in China last week. And no, it’s not because sales were so weak I have yet to see

When Motorola (MOT) beat Street consensus last quarter, there was a collective shout of “it’s back,” echoed by the number of upgrades of its stock. Much of that was predicated upon

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This Thursday, Amazon (AMZN) will announce its third quarter earnings after the market’s close. Analysts expect $5 billion in revenues and $0.33 per share in earnings. Shares of the online reta

“Nokia must accelerate the pace of its strategic transformation.” That was a comment on Nokia’s (NOK) third-quarter conference call by CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo. The transformat

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