Category Archives: Kodak

This week’s recap

By PR admin | Published: October 16, 2011
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Here are some interesting stories from last week: New Eneloops rechargeable batteries keep their charge for over 5 years. Check out also this post about the best AA batteries for photography. Apple’s iPhone 4S has a Sony sensor. Sony’s CEO was right and so was the Apple employee who published a picture taken with the new iPhone 4s on flickr before [...]

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Kodak is losing it

By PR admin | Published: October 4, 2011
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Kodak’s stock price went further down last week after concerns about a $160 million credit withdrawal. Yesterday Kodak said that they are not planning on filling for bankruptcy and their stock slightly recovered. The Kodak patent bid is due in October.

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Kodak’s patents may be worth $3 billion

By PR admin | Published: August 18, 2011

Bloomberg and WSJ published articles that Kodak’s patents are probably worth $3 billion and the company has started marketing them to potential buyers that could include Microsoft, Samsung, and even Google. The company’s equity is currently  valued at $600 million after a series of negative financial news.

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Hoya & Kodak updates

By PR admin | Published: May 14, 2011
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Hoya announced their results for the financial year ending on March 31, 2011 “Revenues from continuing operations grew 2.7% over the previous fiscal year, to 413,349 million yen and profit before tax was up 26.2% to 63,758 million yen, mainly due to an increase in orders with the recovery in the market.” “Optics business did well this year [...]

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Todays news: Sigma DP2x, Fuji X100 and other updates

By PR admin | Published: March 28, 2011

No SD1 yet: today Sigma announced pricing and availability of the DP2x camera: the MSRP will be $800 and it should be available in stores in late April. The DP2x was was announced in February, 2011.  There is still no word on the 46MP Sigma SD1 DSLR camera. Back on track: FujiFilm Japan announced today that the production [...]

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Kodak’s investor pushing for sale or “turn-around”

By PR admin | Published: March 3, 2011
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WSJ reports that one of Kodak’s investors is pushing for a turn-around or sale of the 119 years old company. The current situation of Kodak was described as “deteriorating financial condition and substantial diminution of shareholder value”. In the past few months Kodak made the headlines with rumors hat the company is for sale and [...]

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