News tagged with economic climate
575-million-dollar fund targets technology startups
Nov 02, 2009 |
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Silicon Valley venture capital firm Greylock Partners said Monday it has 575 million dollars in a new fund to back promising technology startups.
Growing online sales could lower prices, but also trim choices
Nov 02, 2009 |
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Shoppers could see lower prices but less variety to choose from as more manufacturers sell directly to consumers through the Internet, according to new research led by a University of Illinois business professor.
Microsoft shutting down Soapbox video service
Jul 22, 2009 |
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Microsoft plans to close MSN Soapbox at the end of August, pulling the plug on an online video-sharing service that competed with Google-owned YouTube.
Technology, sour economy breed, feed Internet scams
May 06, 2009 |
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Ute Schnetzinger thought the bride was demanding. Only later did the Richardson, Texas, florist learn she was bogus.
Tough times, complex systems -- a modernisation story
May 04, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Tough economic times call for tough measures to remain competitive. That goes for software modernisation as well. A European project has just released a prototype of a software engineering platform that could ...
Even in the Digital Age, building a great gadget doesn't guarantee success
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Apr 23, 2009 |
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Publish a book on paper, says a sheepish Beth Collins, and "I'm hesitant to read it." But send it through the ether to her feather-light Kindle 2, Amazon's whiz-bang electronic reading machine, and she's eager ...
Economic crisis drives the mothers of invention
Apr 04, 2009 |
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Crisis is the mother of invention, if one believes the bright sparks behind the gizmos, contraptions, novelties and potions at the international inventions exhibition in the Swiss city of Geneva.
Retirement plans on hold in face of recession, survey finds
Mar 19, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Almost one-third of small- and medium-sized business owners will need to put plans for their retirement on hold because of the downturn in the UK economy, an online survey by The University of Nottingham ...
Global crisis hits smartphone sales
Mar 12, 2009 |
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Worldwide sales of hi-tech "smartphones" grew at their slowest pace yet in the fourth quarter of 2008 as the financial crisis hit demand, a research firm said Thursday.
Markets still a good litmus test for the economy, finance expert says
Mar 02, 2009 |
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Don't put much stock in rumblings that financial markets are a faulty barometer of the nation's economic climate, a University of Illinois business expert says.
