News 1st Look: In giant "garage sale", Japan's TV giants hawk $3 billion of assets

Sunday, December 9, 2012

In giant "garage sale", Japan's TV giants hawk $3 billion of assets

In giant "garage sale", Japan's TV giants hawk $3 billion of assets
Lenovo Group's parent plans China IPO as early as 2014: report
Top 5 Kids Apps of the Week
Barnes and Noble Nook HD+ is a Big Screen, Good Value Tablet
A Charlie Brown Christmas tops iOS Apps of the Week
SKorea's porn fight 'like shoveling in a blizzard'
Apple Maps Are Leaving People Stranded in the Outback
John McAfee Can't Stay Out of the Spotlight
MiFi With Touchscreen is a Road Warrior's Dream
Top 10 Tech This Week
7 Apps You Don't Want To Miss
The Top Comments on Mashable This Week

In giant "garage sale", Japan's TV giants hawk $3 billion of assets

Posted: 09 Dec 2012 07:47 PM PST

TOKYO (Reuters) - Panasonic Corp, Japan's struggling maker of Viera brand TVs, owns more than 10 million square meters of office and factory space, dormitories for its workers and sports facilities for its rugby, baseball and women's athletics teams. As it battles for Christmas shoppers' wallets in the year-end holiday season, the sprawling electronics conglomerate is also seeking buyers for some of those properties to trim its fixed costs and improve cashflow at a time of intense competition, particularly from South Korean rivals such as Samsung Electronics Co. ...

Lenovo Group's parent plans China IPO as early as 2014: report

Posted: 09 Dec 2012 06:50 PM PST

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Legend Holdings, the parent company of personal computer maker Lenovo Group, plans to list in China's A-share market sometime between 2014 and 2016, China Business News quoted the firm's chairman as saying. Legend Holdings, which also owns private equity fund Hony Capital, venture capital firm Legend Capital and real estate firm Raycom, will invest around 20 billion yuan ($3.2 billion) by 2014 to develop its businesses, Chairman Liu Chuanzhi told the paper. ...

Top 5 Kids Apps of the Week

Posted: 09 Dec 2012 06:41 AM PST

1. Toddler Maze 123

Barnes and Noble Nook HD+ is a Big Screen, Good Value Tablet

Posted: 08 Dec 2012 03:05 PM PST

Barnes and Noble Nook-HD+

A Charlie Brown Christmas tops iOS Apps of the Week

Posted: 09 Dec 2012 09:48 AM PST

This week's top iOS apps feature an a subject near and dear to my heart: A Charlie Brown Christmas. The official app of A Charlie Brown Christmas leads off our list this week, but we also have selections for big time blog readers, wine drinkers, energy hoarders and The Economist's readers.

SKorea's porn fight 'like shoveling in a blizzard'

Posted: 09 Dec 2012 09:11 PM PST

Moon Tae-Hwa stares at his computer, dizzy and nauseous from the hours of porn he's viewed online. He feels no shame — he says he's "cleaning up dirty things."

Apple Maps Are Leaving People Stranded in the Outback

Posted: 09 Dec 2012 07:48 PM PST

Just when you thought the trouble caused by Apple's awful new Maps app had tapered off, fresh reports from Australia suggest that the worse is far from over. Police in the state of Victoria issued a warning on Monday "urging motorists to be careful when relying on the mapping system on the Apple i-phones operating on the iOS 6 system." Turns out the famously flawed maps are directing people trying to drive to the small town of Mildura into the middle of the desert, dozens of miles away from civilization, where it's entirely possible that they may die.

John McAfee Can't Stay Out of the Spotlight

Posted: 09 Dec 2012 07:10 PM PST

The John McAfee saga was intriguing at first and then exciting when everything got all action-packed. But as McAfee sits in a Guatemalan detention center awaiting his fate, things seem a little sad. It's not necessarily the situation that's sad. McAfee fled Belize so that he wouldn't have to face questioning from police, broke the law when crossing into Guatemala, got caught and now finds himself in an empty room with a couple of laptops and a lot of free time. ...