SAN FRANCISCO, Jan 17- Intel Corp forecast current-quarter revenue slightly below expectations but its gross margin outlook satisfied Wall Street, as the personal computer industry grapples with falling sales and a shift toward tablets and smartphones.
*Home Retail's Argos Q3 underlying sales up 2.7 pct.
*Intel reports Thursday, Microsoft on Jan 24. The wave of hybrids comes as Intel Corp and Microsoft Corp, long the twin leaders of the PC industry, prepare to report results this week and next.
*Silver Lake Partners tapped major banks for financing- sources. NEW YORK/ SAN FRANCISCO, Jan 15- Talks to take Dell Inc private are at an advanced stage with at least four major banks lined up to provide financing, two sources with knowledge of the matter told Reuters, propelling shares of the No. 3 computer maker 7 percent higher.
*Silver Lake Partners tapped major banks for financing- sources. NEW YORK/ SAN FRANCISCO, Jan 15- Talks to take No. 3 computer maker Dell Inc private are in an advanced stage with at least four major banks lined up to provide financing, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.
Jan 14- Dell Inc, the world's No. 3 PC maker, is in talks with private equity firms on a potential buyout deal, a source familiar with the matter said. Dell declined to comment on what it called rumors and speculation.
*Dell shares soar after Bloomberg reports in talks to go private. SAN FRANCISCO, Jan 14- Shares of Dell Inc soared 13 percent to a near eight-month high on Monday after Bloomberg reported the world's No. 3 PC maker is in talks with at least two private equity firms about going private.
*Dell shares soar after Bloomberg reports in talks to go private. SAN FRANCISCO, Jan 14- Dell Inc is in talks with private equity firms to go private, Bloomberg reported on Monday, sending the personal computer maker's shares soaring 15 percent.
HELSINKI, Jan 10- Nokia said strong sales of Lumia smartphones helped its mobile phone business achieve underlying profitability in the fourth quarter, raising hopes the struggling handset maker may be past the worst.
HELSINKI, Jan 10- Nokia's mobile phone business achieved underlying profitability in the fourth quarter of last year, ahead of its earlier forecast, boosted by strong sales of its new Lumia smartphone.
LAS VEGAS, Jan 9- Samsung Electronics Co is looking to supply chips to more Chinese and other emerging smartphone makers, the head of its system chip business said, to counter any fall-off in demand from Apple Inc, which is weaning itself off Samsung chips used in its iPhones and iPads.
LAS VEGAS, Jan 9- Samsung Electronics Co is looking to supply chips to more Chinese and other emerging smartphone makers, the head of its system chip business said, to counter any fall-off in demand from Apple Inc, which is weaning itself off Samsung chips used in its iPhones and iPads.
Jan 8- AT&T Inc sold more than 10 million smartphones in the fourth quarter, a record, the company said on Tuesday. The latest results suggested AT&T smartphone sales for all of 2012 will be about 26.7 million units, slightly ahead of its previous forecast of 26 million.
LAS VEGAS, Jan 7- Top chipmaker Intel Corp on Monday announced shipments of a new low-power chip and showed off next-generation ultra thin laptops and convertible tablets in its latest bid to prove that the struggling PC industry still has a bright future.
SINGAPORE/ HONG KONG, Jan 7- Call it phablet, phonelet, tweener or super smartphone, but the clunky mobile phone- closer in size to a tablet than the smartphone of a couple of years back- is here to stay. At this week's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Chinese telecommunications giants ZTE Corp and Huawei Technologies Co Ltd will launch their own.
SINGAPORE/ HONG KONG, Jan 7- Call it phablet, phonelet, tweener or super smartphone, but the clunky mobile phone- closer in size to a tablet than the smartphone of a couple of years back- is here to stay. At this week's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Chinese telecommunications giants ZTE Corp and Huawei Technologies Co Ltd will launch their own.
*Apple smartphone share seen rising to 21 pct from 20. SEOUL, Jan 4- Samsung Electronics Co Ltd is expected to widen its lead over Apple Inc in global smartphone sales this year with 35 percent growth, helped by a broad product lineup, market researcher Strategy Analytics told Reuters on Friday.