When Microsoft reported its third-quarter financial results last week, company officials trumpeted several metrics about sales and adoption of Office 365, the cloud subscription suite for email and collaboration. Specifically, Microsoft ...
Google's core product may always be search, but the company is just as serious about providing in-the-moment information to users with emerging technologies such as Google Now, self-driving cars and Glass, CEO Larry Page signaled on ...
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Checkpoint Systems, Inc. announced the Company’s intention to sell its U.S. and Canadian CheckView business. Following an extensive review of Checkpoint’s portfolio in 2012, the Company’s Board of Directors determined that ...
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Even though PC giants Hewlett-Packard and Dell reported significant year-over-year sales declines, tech stocks, buoyed by signs of confidence from other IT vendors, started to rise again Friday after slumping for most of the week. Vendors ...
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Despite PC giants HP and Dell reporting significant year-over-year sales declines, tech stocks, buoyed by signs of confidence from other IT vendors, began to rise again Friday after slumping for most of the week. Vendors in diverse ...
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Owens-Illinois, Inc. plans to start its fourth quarter 2012 conference call and webcast 30 minutes earlier than previously announced. The call and webcast will start at 8:00 a.m. EST on Thursday, January 31, 2013. Due to the high number of ...
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Despite declines in its coal volumes, Kansas City Southern swung to a fourth quarter and year-end profit, partly on growth in shipments of crude oil and frack sand, executives of the railroad said Tuesday. "The growth in crude and ...
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US discount retailer Family Dollar Stores has recorded first-quarter earnings that came in at the lower end of its guidance due to gross margin pressure and expense headwinds. In the three months ended 24 November, earnings amounted to ...
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IDG News Service-Zynga is cutting about 5 percent of its workforce,and is"sunsetting"13 of its older games,the company's founder and CEO Mark Pincus said Tuesday in a note to employees. The games developer is also shutting down its studio ...
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IDG News Service-SAP is working on a number of potential next-generation BI(business intelligence)technologies meant to exploit the company's HANA in-memory database,including a new version of the popular Explorer visualization ...
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US-based Baker Hughes on Tuesday became the second large-capital oil service company in as many weeks to issue a warning of lower fourth-quarter earnings because of weaker North American and international activity. Baker Hughes' North ...
Marissa Mayer, participating in her first Yahoo earnings conference call since becoming CEO, outlined a broad range of areas in which the company needs to improve. “It was an active and solid quarter with some nice ...
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Canadian Solar Inc.("the Company","Canadian Solar"or"we")(NASDAQ:CSIQ),one of the world's largest solar power companies,today announced that it will hold a conference call on Thursday,November 15,2012 at 8:00 a.m.U.S.Eastern Standard ...
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US own-label group Ralcorp Holdings, which today (27 November) agreed to a takeover bid from ConAgra Foods, returned to profit in its fiscal 2012 year, boosted by acquisitions made during the year. In the 12 months to the end of ...
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US organic retailer Whole Foods Market has snapped up leases to six Johnnie Foodmaster's stores in and around Boston. The six stores average 31,000 square feet in size. Whole Foods plans to remodel each location, with the goal of ...
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