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Seoul shares open flat, refiners give support
SEOUL, Dec 24 (Reuters) - Seoul shares opened flat on Friday following a mixed ending on Wall Street and as persisting geopolitical risks kept investors at bay after North Korea threatened nuclear war. ... Read the rest of this entry »
Dow Slumps Amid Global Unease
Stocks tumbled as investors fretted over the skirmish between North Korea and South... Read the rest of this entry »
General Automotive Company Announces the Opening of OE Source Los Angeles Office
Submitted by SmallCapVoice.com ORLANDO, Fla., Feb. 8, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — General Automotive Company (OTCBB:GNAU), a North American provider of aftermarket parts and advanced technology for the automotive industry, today announces the opening of a Los Angeles office of OE Source. OE Source, a wholly owned subsidiary of General Automotive, opened the new LA office to Read the rest of this entry »
General Automotive Company Signs Agreement to Acquire S.P.E.C., Inc. in Stock and Cash Transaction
Submitted by SmallCapVoice.com ORLANDO, Fla., Feb. 5, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — General Automotive Company (OTCBB:GNAU), a North American provider of aftermarket parts and advanced technology for the automotive industry, today announced it has an agreement to acquire privately held S.P.E.C., Inc. The transaction is expected to further position the Company as an organization that capitalizes on Read the rest of this entry »
Interview With General Automotive Company’s President and CEO Now Available at OrlandoSentinel.com
Submitted by SmallCapVoice.com ORLANDO, Fla., Jan. 14, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — General Automotive Company (OTCBB:GNAU), a North American provider of aftermarket parts and advanced technology for the automotive industry, today announces that an interview with President and CEO Dan Valladao has been published in the Business Section of the Orlando Sentinel Newspaper. The article is available Read the rest of this entry »
DEFCON 1: Apple Countersues Nokia
In response to a lawsuit filed by Nokia alleging infringement on 10 patents related to wireless standards and technologies, Apple has countersued based on 13 patents of its own. In a short, acerbic press release, Apple General Counsel Bruce Sewell smacked Nokia down, stating that “other companies must compete with us by inventing their own technologies, not just by stealing ours.” That sounds strikingly similar to Nokia VP of Legal & Intellectual Property Ilkka Rahnasto, who said back in October that Apple was “attempting to get a free ride on the back of Nokia’s innovation.” Nokia’s lawsuit related to GSM, UMTS, and wireless LAN standards for “wireless data, speech coding, security and encryption.” Apple’s countersuit ( PDF ) covers 13 patents on a variety of technical and eye-glazing minutia, from “real-time signal processing system for serially transmitted data” to “boot framework architecture for dynamic staged initial program load.” More obviously related to the iPhone, there are patents relating to the graphical user interface and touch-screen display, not that it matters which patents are named. Normally, companies like Apple and Nokia protect themselves from patent lawsuits in the same way nuclear powers stockpile atomic bombs, the principle being mutually assured destruction through litigation Read the rest of this entry »
Fiat’s 500C the Makings of an Apple iCar
Back in 2007, the Mac web rumor mill was abuzz for a while about a reported September meeting in California between Steve Jobs and Volkswagen CEO Winterkorn over possibly integrating the iPod, iPhone, and other Apple products into an automobile — with blogosphere speculation about possibly even an Apple/VW joint venture “iCar” project. However, by late November, the German site Capital was reporting ( Google translation ) that Apple/VW discussions, although confirmed by Volkswagen, had ground to a halt. Steve Jobs as Auto Exec. Read the rest of this entry »