Apple will sell the iPad tablet in China

As the saying goes - "in less than half of the year" and the long-awaited tablet iPad last generation as early as Friday, July 20, will be sold in China. This happened due to the fact that Apple has yet got permission to use the trademark iPad in China, paying no small amount of kickbacks.


The latest generation of tablets iPad with a "retina" screen will be sold in Chinese stores official Apple Store, or through local resellers. To buy a long-awaited tablet, the Chinese people need to start to issue an order online, because the demand is expected to iPad incredible.

China is a very important market for Apple, because its products, especially the iPhone 4S, it is sold as a "hot cakes". Due to start selling as early as this Friday, the Cupertino-based company can earn from selling well plates and finish the quarter, another record.

Announcing the official price on the iPad in China, just to get rid of the speculators who sell apple tablet at insane prices because the cost of the tablet in China will match that of the United States.

Nokia may sell Vertu

The Finnish company Nokia can get rid of the premium brand Vertu, to fully concentrate on their core business. This past weekend The Financial Times reported, citing unnamed sources.

The Finnish company is planning to get for Vertu around € 200 million Nokia officially does not comment on reports of a possible sale of the brand. As you know, the company is now in crisis, and its attempts to stop the decline in sales is not too successful. For example, smart mobile phone Nokia Lumia on OC-Windows can not yet show decent sales - only for the first quarter of this year, the Finnish company's loss amounted to € 929 million, whereas a year earlier the company reported a profit € 344 million

Since May last year, Nokia shares dropped in price by 60%. In conditions of growing competition from companies Apple, Samsung, HTC and other Nokia's market share has steadily decreased - in late April, research firm Strategy Analytics said that in the first quarter deliveries Samsung phones and smartphones worldwide totaled 93.5 million, or 25 % of total (368 million) of all mobile phones in the world, delivered from manufacturers to stores in the first quarter, Nokia's delivery over the first quarter of last year fell by 24% - up to 83 million, leaving a Finnish company to second place on the market proportion (22.5%). In third place with a share of 9.5% is Apple.

France Telecom sells all of its assets in Austria

The European telecommunications operator France Telecom completes negotiations to sell 35% stake in the company of Orange Austria Hong Kong holding company Hutchison Whampoa.
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Sale of shares in the Austrian mobile operator is part of the France Telecom to reduce its presence in the stagnant European telecommunications market.

Sources close to the negotiations say that finally all the terms of the transaction will be agreed within the next two to three weeks. Pre-selling price of the package is around 1.4 billion euros. At present, the remaining 65% of Orange Austria owned by the private management company Mid Europa Partners, which so far do not provide comments on a possible change of ownership 35% stake in Orange Austria.

At the same time, sources say that Hutchison is the most likely, but not the only bidder. The remaining contenders were not disclosed.

Now on the Austrian mobile telephony market company Hutchinson Whampoa already has some presence through mobile operator 3, part of which belongs to the Hong Kong conglomerate. If the company becomes the owner of Asian companies 3 and Orange Austria, it will become the third largest operator in Austria after the Telekom Austria and T-Mobile Austria. Now Orange Austria on 65% owned by Mid Europa Partners, 35% France Telecom, but the actual management of the company France Telecom carries in agreement with the main investor.

Orange Austria's third largest Austrian mobile phone operator with shares of around 20%. In 2010, revenues were 578 million euro net loss - 9 million euros.

Recall that last year, France Telecom announced a desire to withdraw from the Portuguese mobile market, but at the end of 2011 the company got rid of their assets in Switzerland, sold its Orange Swiss investment fund Apax Partners for 1.6 billion euros. Sources familiar with the situation say that the purchase of Orange Swiss also claimed funds EQT Partners, Providence Equity Partners and French billionaire Xavier Niel, but preference was given to London's Apax.

Now the second largest European telecom operator France Telecom reduces the size of their assets in Europe, where the business is deteriorating economy against the background is no longer so profitable, and the cost of maintaining it remain at a stable level. Instead, the major European telecoms such as Deutsche Telekom, France Telecom and Spanish Telefonica, prefer to move in the direction of the emerging markets of Africa, the Middle East, Asia and other areas.

HP wanted to sell Palm for $ 1.2 billion

In April last year, HP has bought Palm for $ 1.2 billion since then has been a long time and companies have long given up on their purchase. However, HP tried desperately to regain the money spent and expected to sell Palm for $ 1.2 billion.

But the desire to HP from the start seemed to put it mildly, is not realizable. In fact, after buying Palm's been a very long time, and all this time, the company's value is constantly decreasing.

As a result, when HP offered to buy Facebook for Palm $ 1.2 billion, was present at the meeting, Mark Zuckerberg could not help laughing. Not depend on the Palm and companies such as Samsung, Amazon and Intel. And the reason for their refusal to become just the exorbitant price you asked HP for Palm.