As interior designers and homeowners become more and more innovative with the way in which they create lighting schemes for properties, there is a growing trend to incorporate twigs and sticks into arrangements. The most common pieces of ...
Local shares closed higher yesterday, even after paring a sharp rise early on in the session, as investors took profits ahead of an interest rate decision due from the Reserve Bank of Australia today. The stockmarket was buoyed by growing ...
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Apple's record-setting $17 billion bond offer this week stood in stark contrast to the company's darkest days, when in 1996 its millions in notes were rated as junk because investors wondered if the company would survive a thrashing by ...
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The sharemarket pared an early rise as profit-taking emerged before the release of US non-farm payrolls data due overnight. Strong earnings results from Westpac and Macquarie Group, together with a jump in resources stocks, initially ...
Investors Silverton Partners and Sevin Rosen Funds have sold their stakes in Javelin Semiconductor Inc of Austin, TX, USA, which was one of the first firms to develop 3G wireless communications power amplifiers (PAs) based on ...
Tags: CMOS PAs, Electronics
THE cIn Motion is a successful marriage of the modern touch-screen smartphone and the iconic BlackBerry keyboard. On BlackBerrys, the keyboard has always been about more than filling in text fields, and the new operating system takes that ...
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Malaysia-based banking group AMMB Holdings is looking for potential buyers to dispose of certain stake in its life insurance operations, in a bid to raise nearly $600m from the deal. Sources familiar with the deal were quoted by the Wall ...
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Even as several states have put in place, or are planning, new laws barring employers from monitoring the social media activities of their employees, one Wall Street regulator is seeking exemptions to such rules for some financial services ...
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Microsoft's chief financial officer yesterday confirmed that the company and its hardware partners would ship smaller, lower-priced Windows tablets in the next months. "We are working closely with OEMs on a new suite of small touch ...
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Blackstone Group has given up its bid for Dell, less than a month after the private-equity fund manager said it was planning to top an offer from founder Michael Dell and private-equity firm Silver Lake Partners. In the so-called ...
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US-based investment management firm Trian Fund Management's founding partner Nelson Peltz has acquired stakes in PepsiCo and Mondelēz International. Peltz has acquired stakes valued at about $1.4bn each in PepsiCo and Mondelez ...
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Any deal by IBM to sell parts of its server business to Lenovo is likely to focus on low-end commodity x86 hardware, not higher-end x86 systems such as IBM's PureSystems and iDataPlex servers, an industry analyst said Thursday. IBM ...
Blackstone Group has given up its bid for Dell, less than a month after the private-equity fund manager said it was planning to top an offer from founder Michael Dell and private-equity firm Silver Lake Partners. In the so-called ...
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Microsoft's top executive for mobile phones took shots at both iOS and Android today, calling Apple's operating system "boring" and claiming Google's is "a mess." Speaking at a conference hosted by the Wall Street Journal's All Things D, ...
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Microsoft's top executive for mobile phones took shots at both iOS and Android on Tuesday, calling Apple's operating system "boring" and claiming Google's is "a mess." Speaking at a conference hosted by the Wall Street Journal's All ...
Tags: IOS, Android, software, Computer Products