New research also reveals companies rely too heavily on gut instinct versus data when making budget decisions … ultimately at the expense of the customer experience.

Foxconn had wanted to limit working hours at its factories to 49 hours per week.

Parliament struggles to reach consensus on new data protection law.

Nokia continues to struggle as its third-quarter smartphone unit sales dropped by 63 percent compared to last year, while some warn that expectations for the arrival of its first phones based on Windows Phone 8 should not be too high.

Android continued to increase its dominance of the smartphone market during the second quarter, powered by Samsung's success. Competitor Apple in contrast struggled somewhat as consumers held out for the next iteration of the iPhone, Gartner said Tuesday.

The company had a 2 percent share of South Korea's smartphone market in 2011.

The company briefly reported the problem had been solved before the site went down again.

Nokia reported a sales drop and a loss during the first quarter, as it struggles to sell cheap phones as well as Symbian-based smartphones, and Windows Phone sales remain small.

Apple's co-founder and chairman had struggled with a rare form of pancreatic cancer for a number of years.

Dell is reporting some success in its struggle to retool itself as a cloud and enterprise services provider, even as the company's consumer business continues to decline.

Computer system problems at one of Japan's biggest banks continued on Friday, with Mizuho Bank unable to process salary payments for more than half a million people. The bank also said its Internet banking service and ATMs would be offline over Japan's upcoming three-day weekend.

Cisco Systems closed its acquisition of Tandberg on Monday, formally ending a tense struggle over the fair value of the Norwegian videoconferencing vendor.

Drivers are among the virtualization vendors' problems.