After remaining quiet on the hardware front for years, Amazon.com's China business has finally brought the company's Kindle tablet and Kindle e-reader to the country. On Friday, both the Kindle Fire HD and Kindle Paperwhite went on sale ...
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Gome.com.cn, a B2C unit of leading Chinese home appliance retailer Gome Electrical Appliances Holding Ltd. (SEHK: 093), announced signing of a strategic cooperation agreement with Tmall.com on June 6. And under terms of the agreement, ...
Media reports said that Qihoo 360 Technology Co., Ltd (NYSE: QIHU) planned to wholly acquire Sogou and has reached cooperative framework. The news aroused wide attention but was immediately denied by CEO of the acquisition target. In ...
Microsoft has extended a guarantee that provides Yahoo with financial protection as part of the two companies' internet search partnership An arrangement requiring Microsoft to pay Yahoo a minimum amount per search on Yahoo's website ...
China signaled it wants to reduce its dependence on Google's Android OS, alleging that the U.S. company has discriminated against local companies over the use of the mobile operating system. "Our country's mobile operating system research ...
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IDG News Service - Japan's Softbank, which is in negotiations to make a major investment in U.S. operator Sprint Nextel, is also mulling a competitive bid for MetroPCS, Japanese media reported Friday. The reports from sources such as the ...
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IDG News Service - Japan's Softbank said Monday it has reached a deal to acquire a 70% stake in U.S. mobile operator Sprint Nextel for $20 billion, forming one of the world's largest telecom operators. The companies said the deal would ...
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Yahoo's revenue dropped slightly but earnings rose during the third quarter, the first complete one under the helm of new CEO Marissa Mayer. Revenue came in at $1.2 billion in the quarter ended Sept. 30, down 1% year on year. Subtracting ...
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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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Yahoo's music service for China will close in January,after once being accused of supporting music piracy. The music service posted a notice on its site,thanking users for their support,and stating that it was adjusting its product ...
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The U.S. has removed China's Taobao sites from its "Notorious Markets" list of major offenders that support piracy and counterfeiting, citing their successful efforts to remove infringing goods from the sites. Taobao Marketplace and ...
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Google responded to allegations it stopped the launch of a new Acer smartphone in China, by stating that the handset's Chinese-developed mobile OS was "apparently derived" from Android, but still not fully compatible with the Android ...
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PC maker Acer has allegedly cancelled the launch of a new smartphone using a Chinese-developed mobile operating system because Google threatened to cancel the company’s license to use the Android OS. Acer was originally scheduled to ...
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Yahoo said Tuesday that Kathy Savitt, former founder and CEO of social commerce company Lockerz, is joining the ailing Internet company as chief marketing officer, responsible for all worldwide marketing and branding. Savitt will join the ...
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