Iconic telescope maker Meade Instruments filed for bankruptcy protection last month after a years-long legal battle with a competitor. Orion is a California-based retailer that sells telescopes and ...

Meade Instruments Corp. (est. 1972), one of the world’s largest designers and manufacturers of telescopes and accessories for amateur astronomers, and Jinghua Optics & Electronics Co., Ltd. (JOC) ...

LAS VEGAS -- Need a reason to go camping? Here's a great one. Meade Instruments showed off its new telescope at CES 2009, a 30-pound mean machine makes the night sky come alive. It's astronomy for ...

Meade Instruments Corp., the Irvine maker of telescopes and binoculars, has settled a lawsuit by rivals Star Instruments and RC Optical Systems. The two companies claimed Meade falsely described ...

IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Meade Instruments ® (NasdaqGM: MEAD), a leading designer and manufacturer of telescopes and optical accessories for both professional and amateur astronomy enthusiasts ...

Shares of Meade Instruments Corp. skyrocketed Monday in its first trading session since the Irvine-based company announced it was set to be acquired for $4.5 million by the North American unit of ...

The Celestron Inspire 100AZ Refractor Telescope and Meade Instruments Polaris 114mm Reflector Telescope are both excellent telescopes. This versus guide puts the two head-to-head to help you decide ...

Telescope maker Meade Instruments has been sold to affiliates of Chinese manufacturer Ningbo Sunny Electronic Co. for $5.9 million, ending months of speculation over the future of a storied Irvine ...

Meade Instruments Corp. said today that Steven G. Murdock would retire as chief executive as soon as a successor is found. Murdock will remain on the Irvine telescope maker’s board. Murdock joined ...

Directors of Meade Instruments Corp., which has helped foster the consumer market with its easy-to-use telescopes and binoculars since 1972, may be tipping their hand by Monday on whether to recommend ...

Meade Instruments (MEAD) is a company that has lost money for years. Its business of designing and manufacturing telescopes and other optical consumer products is on the decline. But after some ...

Irvine-based telescope maker Meade Instruments Corp. and its prospective buyer have agreed to increase its sale price by about $380,000, to $5.9 million. Meade’s stock jumped 8.6% in afternoon trading ...