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Thai flooding impact on tech companies, suppliers

What tech manufacturers and suppliers have been saying about the impact from heavy flooding in Thailand:

RadioShack Bonds Signal Distress of Thin Mobile Margins: Corporate Finance

Credit investors are paying the most ever to protect against a default from RadioShack Corp. on concern that the consumer electronics retailer’s emphasis on selling mobile devices will fail to revive its fortunes.

Safety, cost cuts help JLTV overtake Humvee

It looks like the end of the road for the Humvee. Army Chief of Staff Gen. Ray Odierno on Jan. 25 listed the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle as one of his top three priorities and said the service can’t keep “hanging things on the Humvee.” That is a somewhat bold declaration for a program that was on the Senate Appropriations Committee’s chopping block just last year.

RadioShack bonds sending out distress signal

NEW YORK - Credit investors are paying the most ever to protect against a default from RadioShack Corp. on concern that the consumer electronics retailer’s emphasis on selling mobile devices will fail to revive its fortunes.

Q4 PC shipments drop 1.4 percent; Apple sees best US growth

In spite of two previous quarters of gains, computer industry shipments slipped 1.4 percent in Q4 2011 to 92.2 million units, according to preliminary Gartner estimates. The research firm had been forecasting a 1 percent drop. "Continuously low consumer PC demand resulted in weak holiday PC shipments," analyst Mikako Kitagawa is quoted as saying. "While economic uncertainty in Western Europe had ...