What companies must do to survive the decade

Companies all over the world are becoming increasingly worried about their ability to innovate and compete in the fast-changing technology world. That’s according to GE’s third annual “Global Innovation Barometer” released Jan 17.

Finally: Apple and Google said to bid $500M for Kodak imaging patents

Apple and Google have joined forces to offer more than $500 million for some of the 1,100 digital imaging patents from Eastman Kodak, according to Bloomberg, citing “two people with knowledge of the situation.”

If the report is accurate, the …

Kodak’s latest move to raise cash: Selling its consumer film business

Bankrupt Kodak needs to raise cash in any way it can, and by selling some of its assets, it aims to do just that.

Kodak may rethink plans to sell its digital imaging patents

With sluggish interest from bidders so far, Kodak could pull back on its plans to sell its digital imaging patents.

Beleaguered Kodak strikes legal blow against Apple

Kodak, the formerly powerful but now bankrupt camera company, has tasted victory in its ongoing patent war with Apple.

Kodak has been scrambling to maintain its very existence lately, and part of that struggle includes a lawsuit it brought against …

Kodak loses patent case against Apple, again, then appeals, again

Kodak moments are in short supply right now.

The former photography giant has almost struck out with its bid to prove that Apple infringes on image-preview technologies that the bankrupt century-old company says it invented.

Strike one: January 2011, the

Not a Kodak Moment: Apple being sued by Kodak over patents

Apple is being sued by Kodak, the camera company that recently filed for bankruptcy, for a number of patents, which Apple says Kodak doesn’t have the right to sell.

According to Reuters, the Cupertino-based company is standing in the way …

Kodak’s HQ secretly housed a nuclear reactor for over 30 years

Kodak may have specialized in cameras, but according some recent revelations, the beleaguered and recently-bankrupt company also tried its hand at nuclear research.

For thirty years, Kodak housed under its Rochester headquarters a research reactor equipped with over three pounds …

Kodak passes off Gallery printing service to Shutterfly for $23.8M

Just a month after filing for bankruptcy, Eastman Kodak Company is dumping some of its digital assets off on personal photo-publishing company Shutterfly in the hopes of becoming a more tightly focused company.

Shutterfly has agreed, by way of a …

Bankrupt Kodak will stop producing cameras in 2012

Kodak, the beleaguered company that invented the handheld camera, is slashing its product lines in an attempt to survive a rapidly changing consumer electronics landscape.

The company began preparing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy at the very beginning of 2012; the …

VBWeekly: Megaupload, Kodak and iBooks

In this week’s installment of our weekly video show, Christopher Peri and I talk about one of the most entertaining news stories so far this year: The colorful indictment of alleged pirate content site Megaupload.com. The site’s founder, Kim Dotcom, …

The moment of truth: Kodak files for bankruptcy

Eastman Kodak said Wednesday night that it has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The expected move shows that no technology or business franchise lasts forever, no matter how enduring it seems.

Kodak failed to make the transition from film to …

Sad picture time: Kodak prepping for Chapter 11

After 131 years of innovating the photography industry, Eastman Kodak is reportedly preparing for a Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

Kodak has been on unsteady ground ever since digital photography began decimating the print photo business in the mid-2000s. The company …