Jack Ewing

Recent Articles by Jack Ewing

November 29, 2009

The Financial Fix That Saved Eastern Europe

Eastern Europe, which narrowly escaped financial meltdown early in the year, is looking wobbly again. The International Monetary Fund has delayed aid to Romania amid ...

November 24, 2009

Siemens Rides the Offshore Winds

Brande, Denmark - German engineering giant Siemens (SI) looks like an also-ran in wind turbines. It's in sixth place globally, with 7% of the market, well behind ...

November 9, 2009

Nokia Launches Critical N900 Phone

When thousands of suppliers, developers, and analysts converged on Stuttgart in September to attend Nokia World, the Finnish company's annual in-house trade fair, the ...

November 8, 2009

What EA Sees in Social Gamer Playfish

Games company Electronic Arts (ERTS) agreed on Nov. 9 to pay $400 million for a company whose products include virtual hot dogs, bazookas, and turnips. Wacky? Maybe, ...

November 5, 2009

Hip Berlin Goes Corporate

When the Berlin Wall opened two decades ago, freedom quickly swept through Germany's largest city. Prosperity, by contrast, was much slower to arrive. After the ...

October 28, 2009

SAP Software: No Global Upturn Yet

Corporate IT chiefs don't seem to have gotten the memo that a global rebound is under way. German software maker SAP (SAP), a technology bellwether, disappointed ...

October 22, 2009

Nokia: Apple iPhone Violates Our Patents

Apple's iPhone has been giving Nokia smartphones a hard time in the marketplace. Now Nokia is giving Apple a hard time in the courtroom. The Finnish handset giant said...

October 21, 2009

Deutsche Bank: Profits Up, Stock Down

Deutsche Bank (DB) surprised investors Oct. 21 with better-than-expected profit for the third quarter, bolstering the bank's claim that it will emerge from the ...

October 7, 2009

The Apprentice: Germany's Answer to Jobless Youth

In most countries, giving up full-time schooling at age 15 would seem like a bad plan. But for Christian Dietrich, who lives in the German village of Ketsch, outside ...

September 22, 2009

Hydrogen Cars Are Still Headed for the Highway

No self-respecting automaker would have dared appear without a zippy-looking plug-in prototype at the annual Frankfurt Auto Show in September. Amid all the hype about ...