Statement by Apple on iPhone 4 Pre-Orders – Yesterday Apple and its carrier partners took pre-orders for more than 600,000 of Apple’s new iPhone 4. It was the largest number of pre-orders Apple has ever taken in a single day and was far higher than we anticipated, resulting in many order and approval system malfunctions.
HTC Corporation, a global designer of smartphones, today announced it has acquired Paris-based Abaxia, a leader in custom software for mobile operators and handset manufacturers around the world. “HTC is committed to creating the best possible mobile experience for our customers today, tomorrow and into the future,” said Peter Chou, CEO of HTC Corporation. “The addition of… Read More →
Citroën has released first details of the brand new C4. Designed to exceed the highest expectations, the New Citroën C4 boasts a real positive energy – with exceptional levels of quality, style, interior space and occupant comfort, as well as responsive handling and impressive environmental credentials. As with the New C5 in 2008 and New C3 earlier… Read More →
Today, Gerard Kleisterlee, President and Chief Executive Officer of Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHI), will give a presentation to investors and financial analysts at the JP Morgan Cazenove Capital Goods CEO Conference in Surrey, United Kingdom. In his presentation, Mr. Kleisterlee will give an update on the implementation of Philips’ strategy to become the leading company… Read More →
“The Audi brand has made a significant leap forward in the U.S. market during the crisis. Yet despite optimistic planning, we didn’t expect the trend in sales figures to be so strong,” says Peter Schwarzenbauer, Member of the Board of Management for Marketing and Sales at AUDI AG. “For the overall year of 2010, I expect a… Read More →
The BMW Group continues its upward trend in sales: The company increased global sales of its three premium automobile brands, BMW, MINI and Rolls-Royce, by 10.8% (120,843 / prev. yr. 109,049) in May. Deliveries for the year to the end of May climbed 13.3% to 552,864 vehicles (prev. yr. 487,914). Ian Robertson, member of the Board of… Read More →
Nokia today published its 2009 Sustainability report. The report contains facts, figures and examples of sustainability initiatives and provides a new level of transparency regarding social and environmental responsibility.
Volkswagen is reorganizing the Group’s sales and marketing structures, aligning the Company to growing internationalization and business development dynamics on the markets. “The continued shift in automobile markets towards new, fast-growing regions and constant expansion of the model range bring new opportunities for the sales, marketing and after sales business”, Christian Klingler, the Group Board Member for… Read More →
The Sportlifestyle company PUMA expands its project in cooperation with The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and the Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) in GRI’s GANTSCh program which supports supplier factories to report on their social and environmental initiatives and agreed with 20 key suppliers in South East Asia and other major sourcing regions to issue their own… Read More →
The Volkswagen Group and Italdesign Giugiaro S.p.A. (IDG), Turin, are to intensify their successful cooperation, putting it on a new footing. This was announced by both companies at a joint press conference in Turin on Tuesday. The Volkswagen Group will take a 90.1 percent stake in IDG, including the brand name rights and patents. The shares are… Read More →