UPBEAT OUTLOOK: A company spokesman said the firm believes its earnings will improve significantly once it finalizes the sale of its LCD unit to AU Optronics
By Jason Tan
Quanta Computer Inc (廣達電腦), the world's largest notebook maker, yesterday announced weaker-than-expected quarterly earnings due to growing losses in its liquid-crystal-display (LCD) unit.

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By Lisa Wang
Lenovo Group Ltd (聯想), the world's third-largest computer maker, plans to purchase more laptops from Taiwanese manufacturers this year to cope with the growing demand for its products, the company's chairman said in Taipei yesterday.

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By Jackie Lin
The Ministry of Finance yesterday released its draft of a proposed energy tax statute yesterday, which Minister of Finance Ho Chih-chin (何志欽) said could be implemented next January if passed by the legislature.

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By Amber Chung
Shares of Polaris Group (寶來集團) and its banking arm, the Bank of Overseas Chinese (華僑銀行), strengthened on the local bourses yesterday amid reports it was in intensive partnership talks with Citigroup.

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Share prices closed sharply higher yesterday, rising 1.65 percent as sentiment got a boost from Wall Street's gains and a drop in oil prices to below US$70 a barrel, dealers said.

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NEW DIRECTION: Eric Schmidt is likely to counsel Apple to break from its practice of tying products together, as it did with its iPod MP3 player and iTunes online content
Apple Computer elected Google chief executive Eric Schmidt to its board of directors on Tuesday in a possible harbinger of an alliance between the technology titans.

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Apple Computer said yesterday it was working to resolve a dispute over alleged labor abuses by an iPod manufacturer in China.

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US citizens are more pessimistic than they have been all year about the state of the economy, according to a new report that reflects a widespread view that a period of brisk growth is coming to an end.

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Hackers illegally accessed a computer system and stole credit card information and other personal data from thousands of customers who purchased DSL equipment from an AT&T online store, the company said.

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