Category Archives: Kodak

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

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

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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“Kodak is Apple in reverse”

By PR admin | Published: February 16, 2011

The following headlines sum up the situation Kodak is currently in: Kodak reaffirms plan to complete transformation by 2012 Kodak signals move away from cameras? Analysis: Investors tired of waiting for Kodak to develop Eastman Kodak stock hits new 52-week low Kodak is Apple in reverse

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If someone will be acquiring Kodak, now would be a good time

By PR admin | Published: January 26, 2011

Kodak was already in a bad shape and it got even worse today (source: Marketwatch): “Eastman Kodak Co. said Wednesday that its fourth-quarter profit dropped 95%, as revenue declined in both the company’s traditional film business and its digital segment.” There were some speculations last month that Kodak is for sale. The stock is currently down […]

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Update: What to expect for CES 2011 (and what’s announced already)

By PR admin | Published: January 4, 2011

CES 2011 show is starting in two days in Las Vegas. Here is a list of what was announced already (scroll down for the list of upcoming announcements): The three new cameras from Kodak that leaked on Amazon are already announced: Lexar released a 128GB SDXC memory card: Samsung announced a new Wi-Fi enabled SH100, NX11 and WB700 cameras: […]

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Kodak to announce three new cameras for CES 2011

By PR admin | Published: January 3, 2011

Amazon has 3 empty listings for new Kodak products, presumably for CES 2011 – an EasyShare camera, a video cam and a high powered zoom model:

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Correction

By PR admin | Published: December 16, 2010

A week ago I wrote a post about Kodak not attending PMA 2011. The initial source of this information was the PEN newsletter from December 6th, 2010: After some clarifications from PMA, it seems that the presented information was wrong and was referring to the PMA Australia event and not the US PMA 2011 that […]

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Is Kodak for sale?

By PR admin | Published: December 10, 2010

More Kodak news: Bloomberg reports that Kodak’s shares rose 11% based on buyout speculation. The president of an asset management company said that acquisition “is something that’s been talked about incessantly, at least several months ago there was talk that the best exit strategy would be just to sell the company”. Potential buyers were not mentioned in […]

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