LG appoints new mobile division president and CEO in bid to turn its business around

The long-struggling LG Mobile Communications Company officially has a new skipper in charge with reviving the popularity of the chaebol's smartphones.

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Micromax loses CEO as Lenovo, Samsung encroach on market share

India’s second-largest smartphone manufacturer may not have a leadership vacuum, per se, but the move certainly doesn’t come at an opportune time.Micromax CEO Vineet Taneja has resigned after an especially lousy Q4 performance where the company shipped 13.2 percent of the market’s smartphones, down from 21.7 percent in Q3. It wedges the manufacturer between

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Updated: What would an ex-Google exec leading Microsoft mean?

Update: Oh the perils of scheduling editorials. Microsoft announced Satya Nadella as its new CEO, so in the words of Gilda Radner, “Nevermind”. Now let’s get back to discussing violins on TV… CEO rumors they are a-flying. Maybe it’s Stephen “Trojan Horse” Elop. Maybe it’s

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iPhone beats Samsung Galaxy, Bill Gates leaving Microsoft rumors, GS4 Black & more – Pocketnow Daily

Watch today’s Pocketnow Daily as we talk about how the iPhone currently dominates the smartphone market in the US. We then talk about Samsung’s surprising launch of a black-edition Galaxy S 4, though with some setbacks. Then we talk about Microsoft, its possible new CEO, and even a new Chairman to replace Bill Gates as well. Google is next as we talk about the company’s plans to still build a smartwatch, aside from Asus and Acer. We end today’s show talking about how Lenovo’s CEO claims that his company can defeat Apple and Samsung with the purchase of ...

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Apple and Samsung CEOs to meet again in a quest for peace

Even if you’re not a fan of soaps, there’s no way you can avoid them in an industry like this one, where every company claims to have invented or designed the same thing that the other did. Apple and Samsung have been the two worse cases, as lawsuits have flown from each other’s desks in the last couple of years more than any other rivalry in the tech world. These trials have resulted in one meeting between both of the companies CEOs in order to reach better agreements, but this didn’t prove to be as successful as the courts expected. As a result, the CEOs of both ...

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