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Semiconductor sales down 28.6 pct in January: SIA

Technology / Semiconductors

created Mar 02, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Worldwide semiconductor sales declined 28.6 percent in January from a year ago as the global recession continued to take a big bite out of the computer chip industry, an industry tracker said Monday.


Brain imaging study provides new insight into why people pay too much in auctions

Medicine & Health / Research

created Sep 25, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Auctions are an old and widely used method for allocating goods that have become increasingly common with the advent of internet auctions sites such as Ebay. Previous economic research has shown that in an auction people ...





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Taiwan's AU Optronics returns to profit in third quarter

Technology / Business

created Oct 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Taiwan's Au Optronics Corp on Thursday posted a net profit of 7.4 billion Taiwan dollars (228.5 million US) on increased demand and higher product prices following two consecutive quarterly losses.


Global media giant News Corp. posted an 11 percent rise in quarterly net profit on Wednesday

News Corp. net profit up on movie, cable TV showing

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created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Global media giant News Corp. posted an 11 percent rise in quarterly net profit on Wednesday as strong results from its movie, cable television and book publishing divisions offset a newspaper slump.


Adobe Systems announced on Tuesday it was cutting some 680 jobs worldwide

Adobe cutting 680 jobs

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created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Adobe Systems, known for its Photoshop editing program and Acrobat document software, announced on Tuesday it was cutting some 680 jobs worldwide, about nine percent of its workforce.


Cisco said it will pay cash and retention-based incentives for ScanSafe

Cisco to buy ScanSafe for $183 million

Technology / Business

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Cisco announced on Tuesday it has agreed to buy Web security company ScanSafe for some 183 million dollars, the latest in a string of acquisitions by the US networking giant.


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Mobile multimedia revenues tipped to dethrone text

Technology / Telecom

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Multimedia services will surpass text messaging this year as the main source of mobile operators' non-voice revenue in the Asia-Pacific region, industry analyst IDC said Monday.


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Google ordered to pay 500,000 dlrs to F1 racer Barrichello

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created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (4) | comments 2

Internet giant Google has been ordered to pay 500,000 dollars in damages to Formula 1 racer Rubens Barrichello for hosting fake online profiles of him on its social network Orkut.


TSMC said China's top chip maker will settle a long-running dispute over theft of trade secrets

China chip maker to pay $200 mln to settle TSMC claims

Technology / Business

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) said Tuesday China's top chip maker will pay it 200 million US dollars cash after they settled a long-running dispute over alleged theft of trade secrets.


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US newspaper ad revenue down nearly 28 percent

Technology / Business

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

US newspaper advertising revenue fell by nearly 28 percent in the third quarter, continuing a slide which has led to layoffs, bankruptcies and the closure of several dailies.


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Yahoo! shuts down GeoCities

Technology / Internet

created Oct 26, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Yahoo! on Monday closed GeoCities, a free Web hosting service that it purchased for over three billion dollars at the height of the dot-com boom.


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Global crisis hitting IT spending: Microsoft chief

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created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Companies worldwide are slashing spending on information technology because of the global downturn and will have to learn to do more with less, Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer said Monday.



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