SanDisk Corporation

SanDisk Corp., the world's largest maker of memory cards used in digital cameras, surged the most in eight years in New York trading after Samsung Electronics Co. made a $5.85 billion hostile bid for the company. Samsung offered $26 in cash for each...

Stocks rallied yesterday as investors placed bets that a recovery in the financial and housing sectors is more likely to occur because of the U.S. government's move to bail out mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The Dow Jones industrials...

This might be hard for some people to fathom, but there are digital music players made by other companies beside Apple. But before you think I'm about to write some type of heresy -- the iPod is not the best? -- here's the point: The iPod has keen...

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IBM did not devour the world. Neither did Microsoft. Google won't either. But just as those once-feared, now-mature technology behemoths did in the past, it is dramatically raising the bar of expectation and innovation. The No. 1 Internet search...

Send us your thoughts at opinionla@latimes.com. SanDisk ranks a distant number two to Apple in digital music player sales, accounting for less than 10% of the market compared to more than 70% for Apple's iPods. But its new Sansa Connect player provides a...

Q: I bought shares of Cisco Systems Inc. way back when they were booming. Are they coming back? -- C.G., via the Internet A: You can be confident that the dominant corporate networking company will in the long run benefit from the dramatic worldwide...

Not owning many oscilloscopes or volt meters, I occasionally rely on more subjective tools to test equipment. My wife, for example. Recently a box arrived at home. Boxes arrive all the time. This box contained a new portable audio player. Those arrive...