[at The Wall Street Journal] - Samsung Says EU Probe Will Find It Compliant

[Penn Olson] - Is the iPhone about to explode in China? Morgan Stanley thinks so. The firm released a report yesterday that has since attracted a lot of attention, and more than a little suspicion , from the Chinese …

[at The Wall Street Journal] - Hutchison Whampoa Buys Orange Austria for $1.7 Billion

[AP] - Samsung Electronics Co. is vowing to keep fighting Apple over intellectual property after receiving a boost from a German court ruling that favored the South Korean company.Germany’s Munich Regional Court …

Google Inc.’s (GOOG) Android platform expanded its dominance in the U.S. smartphone market during the three months ended in December, while Apple Inc. (AAPL) continued to gain ground among handset manufacturers, according to the latest survey from comScore Inc. (SCOR).

Logistics and supply chain professionals suspect that Apple Inc.’s operating procedure will undergo significant change in order to recover from its recent public relations disaster.

SAN FRANCISCO -(MarketWatch)- Facebook Inc. made clear this week that its mobile phone business is both key to the company’s future success and–for the moment, anyway–virtually nonexistent. Facebook disclosed in its initial public offering filing Wednesday it had more than 425 million active users of its mobile websites and software applications in December, and the company admitted its growth in mobile users will outpace Facebook’s overall user growth for the foreseeable future.

Apple’s phenomenal success comes at a price: The iPad and the iPhone are manufactured in some of the world’s worst electronic sweatshops.

Here’s what I was reading and thinking about today when I wasn’t preparing for another week of a earnings blitzkrieg.

Here’s the economy/markets/trading/strategy part of the transcript from today’s chat.