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Yahoo schedules product-related event for May 20th in NYC, Marissa Mayer expected to speak
Posted On 17 May 2013 By Darren Murph. Under: Uncategorized.
Call us crazy, but it sure feels like Yahoo's had one heck of a spring. When it comes to spending, anyway. Just as soon as it can get one check to clear, the search icon is breaking the ink back out to write another. According to a breaking tweet ...
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Telus agrees to acquire Mobilicity for $380 million, despite Canada’s push for increased mobile competition
Posted On 17 May 2013 By Darren Murph. Under: Uncategorized.
Regulators in Canada have been making a push to enhance competition in the mobile space, with Industry Minister Christian Paradis going so far as to lay out a set of rules for the nation's upcoming 700MHz spectrum auction that he promises will giv...
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Sharp reportedly laying off 5,000 employees, focusing more on smartphone displays and bigger, better TVs for US market
Posted On 10 May 2013 By Jamie Rigg. Under: Uncategorized.
Sharp finally had something positive to report a couple of months ago when it received a much-need cash injection from Samsung, but today's news isn't so rosy. According to The Asahi Shimbun, Sharp will reveal a three-year management plan next Tue...
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Pegatron increases workforce by 40 percent, adds more grist to Apple rumor mill
Posted On 09 May 2013 By Daniel Cooper. Under: Uncategorized.
Whenever a company involved in making Apple products adds to its workforce, the internet is flooded with "cheap iPhone" and "iWatch" stories. The latest event to perk up the rumor mongers is Pegatron, which announced that it'll be hiring 40,000 mo...
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TechCrunch: Microsoft offering $1 billion to buy Nook Media
Posted On 09 May 2013 By Daniel Cooper. Under: Uncategorized.
Microsoft has put forward an offer to buy complete control of Nook Media LLC, according to internal documents seen by TechCrunch. Redmond's joint venture with Barnes & Noble was set up last year to handle the Nook e-reader, tablet and college ...
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Facebook rumored to be buying GPS app Waze for up to $1 billion
Posted On 08 May 2013 By Daniel Cooper. Under: Uncategorized.
Between buying Instagram and calling Facebook Home the "next version" of his social network, it's fairly clear Mark Zuckerberg's obsessed with the prime real estate on your smartphone. Israeli newspaper Calcalist is reporting that Zuckerberg and C...
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Julien Fourgeaud steps down as CEO of Scarlet Motors
Posted On 07 May 2013 By Daniel Cooper. Under: Uncategorized.
CEO departures normally come in one of two forms -- a dignified slope to the exit, or an explosive, controversial parting of ways. Departing Scarlet Motors CEO Julien Fourgeaud has taken a different approach with a stream-of-consciousness blog pos...
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ASUS sells 3 million tablets in 2013 Q1, rakes in $202 million profit
Posted On 06 May 2013 By Daniel Cooper. Under: Uncategorized.
The PC market may be shrinking, but ASUS' plan to avoid being swept away by its rivals seems to be working. The Nexus 7 maker's latest financials reveal it made $3.5 billion in revenue, coining a quarterly profit of $202 million in the process -- ...
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Jolla names Tomi Pienimäki as new CEO, Marc Dillon to become Head of Software Development
Posted On 02 May 2013 By Jamie Rigg. Under: Uncategorized.
As Jolla gears up for the imminent unveiling of its first smartphone packing the MeeGo-inspired Sailfish OS, there's been another shake-up at the highest level of the company. Marc Dillion will no longer be CEO as of May 6th, with a man by the nam...
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Toshiba reveals WT310 business tablet: Windows 8 Pro, 11.6-inch display and digitizer pen
Posted On 02 May 2013 By Jamie Rigg. Under: Uncategorized.
Toshiba's got an Ultrabook hybrid on the way for general consumption, and now it's targeting the business-savvy Windows 8 user with its WT310 tablet (a product code borrowed from an old Windows 7 model). Running Windows 8 Pro, the 11.6-inch 1080p ...
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