Climate Change: Motorola Good, Apple Not Great
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Bad news for environmentally conscious people who want an iPhone: Apple Inc. is near the bottom of a new list that rates companies based on their efforts to stop climate change.
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Climate change is in the news again, with the Senate having held hearings and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change having issued its fourth five-year report in Paris.  It makes us wonder whether more worrywarts will be propelled by guilt into buying absolution.
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The planet isn't the only thing heating up because of climate change. Some renewable-energy stocks have been pretty hot, too.
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Investor's Business Daily - Motorola's announcement Thursday that it might sell or spin off its cell phone business has hit a major disconnect with analysts, who call it a risky and difficult strategy.
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(InfoWorld) - Two days after it restructured operations, MotorolaÂ on Thursday reported that flagging sales of mobile devices were a factor in its second-quarter loss of $28 million, or $0.01 per share. The telecommunications device maker posted income of $1.38 million, or $0.55 cents a share, one year earlier. Revenue declined by 19 percent to $8.73 billion from $10.82 billion one year earlier. The drop was expected: Motorola issuedÂ preliminary financialsÂ last week, warning that its results would be lower than had been forecast. The company said Thursday that excluding one-time costs, it would have earned $0.02 per share. Analysts surveyed by Thomson Financial, who revised estimates lower after last week's warning, were forecasting break-even results on sales of $8.64 billion. Layoffs and other one-time charges were responsible for losses amounting to $0.04 per share. But the loss for the quarter underscores the company's beleaguered mobile device business, which has been outflanked by rivals including Apple. The pressure will continue. Motorola announced that it expects earnings in the third quarter to be equal to or slightly higher than the second quarter, and that its mobile devices unit will probably not be profitable this year. The company saw a drop in mobile device sales in Asia, a hot market where vendors are trying to get a big share of the market in fast growing economies, as North American and European markets become saturated with mobile phones. Motorola has taken steps to address its problems. The vendor announced Tuesday that it's restructuring into three business divisions: Mobile Devices, Home and Networks Mobility, and Enterprise Mobility Solutions. It also has a new chief of its mobile unit, Stu Reed. Motorola CEO Ed Zander has beenÂ under pressureÂ to resign. He attracted criticism from big-name investor Carl Icahn earlier this year, and recently has been attacked by activist shareholder Eric Jackson for the way he's running the company. Although Motorola has taken steps to cut costs, a core challenge for the company is product design in the competitive handset arena. ItsÂ Razr deviceÂ was praised for its design, but in a fast-paced market quickly became an also-ran, under a barrage of products from rivals that in addition to Apple include Nokia, Samsung Electronics, and LG Electronics. Despite expecting mobile phone sales to be under increasing pressure, Motorola did say that it expected its overall financial results to improve during the second half of the year. Thursday morning, Motorola shares were trading at $18.18, up $0.18 from its opening. Â
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Big Blue is green, Apple is brown. Whodathunkit? Eco-lobby group Climate Counts has issued a green rating scorecard that lauds Canon and IBM as veritable Planeteers, but dumps on eBay, Amazon and Apple as planet-hating muckity-mucks.â¦
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Motorola Inc , the world's No. 3 mobile phone maker, said on Thursday it is exploring strategic alternatives including a possible separation of its mobile devices business from other units.
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Motorola executives said demand for the companyâs cellphones had slowed and the company was losing market share.
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Motorola is realigning its business after slashing its cell-phone sales forecast. The news comes days before its
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If there's going to be a convergence between the applications you use on your multimedia-enabled cell phone and the ones you use on your digital TV tuner, then Motorola -- which has a big stake in both -- will have to work harder to  bring it about. That's the inspiration behind the next stage of its Motodev developer community, as the company's vice president told BetaNews this week.
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New Motorola Inc. CEO Greg Brown doesn't have the secret weapon his predecessor Ed Zander possessed when he arrived at the cell phone maker four years ago Â the Razr. But that could be a good thing Â if Brown, who took over Tuesday as chief executive, applies lessons learned from Motorola's nasty fall last year.
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A troubled Motorola Inc. has realigned itself as its critical cell-phone business slows down.
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Motorola mulls breaking up its business as it battles to recover from losses and weak sales.
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Update: The handset division is Motorola's biggest business, but has had no big wins since the Razr.
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Consumer electronics aren't exactly easy on the environment Â they consume electricity that contributes to global warming, and toxins leach out of them when they end up in landfills.
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This past March, Greenpeace made  headlines by criticizing Apple&#39;s environmental policies -- or  lack thereof.
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On the Seeking Alpha blog, Paul Carton (ChangeWave Alliance) waxes bullish about the forthcoming iPhone. âItâs not often that we say âit rocksâ when analyzing a consumer device trend. But the findings of our latest ChangeWave cell phone survey invite extremes to describe the startling impact the Apple iPhone is having on the cellular industry.â One reason for the excitement: in a recent member survey, ânearly one-in-10 respondents (9%) say they are likely to buy the new iPhone once it becomes available in June.â