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HP Profits Nosedive Due to Poor Desktop Sales

The world’s number one PC maker HP  has announced a 44 percent decrease in earnings for first quarter of the year  due to struggling PC and Printers market. Sales in all of its key products , printers , computer and enterprise … Continue reading

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Amazon Pulls Down 4000 Ebooks , In Dispute with Independent Publishers Group

Faced with increasing pressure from Wall Street to improve its measly profit margins , Amazon has removed more than 4000 ebooks from its website after a dispute with Independent Publishers Group over price margins . Amazon wanted the I.P.G ( … Continue reading

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HP Will Embed Search Software Into PCs And Printers

HP is coming into direct competition with Apple and Google with its plans to embed Autonomy’s search software inside its printers and PCs , Financial Times has reported  . Autonomy , which HP acquired last year , is reputed for … Continue reading

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msnNow , Microsoft’s Effort at Bringing Latest Content to Younger Users

Microsoft has launched a new service called msnNow that is targeted at younger users. msnNow will be giving a snapshot of the day’s stories , topics and people who are most popular on any minute of the day. This new … Continue reading

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Seven Arrested Linked With $1.7 billion Olympus Scandal

Japanese authorities made 7 arrests on Thursday in $1.7 billion accounting scandal at Olympus . Among the arrested are Hisashi Mori , the former executive vice president and Tsuyoshi Kikukawa , former president and chairman at Olympus . Two former … Continue reading

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Samsung to Spin Off LCD Business

Samsung is weighing the option to spin off its loss maker LCD division at a time when it is trying to focus on next-generation technology . Samsung’s LCD business suffered a loss of $669 million last year in an oversupplied … Continue reading

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DOJ Approves Sale of Nortel Patents to Buyers Led by Apple , Microsoft

The Department of Justice has finally approved the sale of more than 6,000 mobile technology related patents of Nortel Networks to group of buyers which include Apple , Microsoft and three more companies. The approval allows the tech giants to … Continue reading

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Yahoo-Alibaba Talks Make No Headway

The recent talks between Alibaba and Yahoo over the fate of the assets of Yahoo in Alibaba have stalled casting doubts over the future of a proposed $17 billion tax-free asset swap . This news came on the same day … Continue reading

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Philips Investigating Suspected Cyber Attack

Philips Electronics has taken down one of its servers on suspicions of cyber attack and are currently investigating the nature and extent of the security incident with particular focus on the information that might have been accessed during the attack. … Continue reading

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Free Ecards In Demand On Valentines Day

‘Free ecards’ does not sound a very romantic phrase but according to Google , lovers are looking for free ecards to express their love on this valentines day. Google Trends shows that free ecards is of the hottest search term … Continue reading

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