Reports circulating that Hewlett-Packard's board of directors is considering a breakup of the company are untrue, a source close to company said. The financial news site Quartz.com reported on Tuesday that HP's board is again discussing ...
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Havells Sylvania is an international designer and manufacturer of lighting products. It has plants throughout Europe, Asia, North Africa and Central and South America, and is one of the few lighting companies that produces both lamps and ...
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Microsoft is close to wrapping up work on Internet Explorer 10 (IE10) on Windows 7, according to a report published Friday. Citing sources enrolled in an invitation-only IE10 test group, Microsoft-watcher and ZDNet blogger Mary Jo Foley ...
According to a report published on Friday, Microsoft is almost ready to release Internet Explorer 10 (IE10) for Windows 7, having told testers that the most recent build will be the last before the browser is released to the public. ...
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Following Georgia Gulf Corporation's pending merger with PPG, the company will be known as Axiall Corporation, Georgia Gulf said Monday. "The new and distinctive brand represents a clear break from the legacy names of the two ...
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The first CES was held in June 1967 in New York City. It was a spinoff from the Chicago Music Show, which until then had served as the main event for exhibiting consumer electronics. The event had 17,500 attendees and over 100 exhibitors; ...
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Hewlett-Packard will continue to evaluate potential divestitures of underperforming parts of its business, and the process could get messy, the company warned its investors in its annual 10-K document, which was filed in late December. ...
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Expanding beyond the delivery of software for its own cloud platform,VMware is acquiring DynamicOps for its heterogenous cloud management offerings. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.DynamicOps provides software for running virtualized ...
PPG Industries recently announced that it has received a favorable private letter ruling from the U.S. Internal Revenue Service regarding the previously announced separation of its commodity chemicals business and subsequent merger of a ...
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Microsoft today said it will ship a preview of Internet Explorer 10 (IE10) for Windows 7 next month, but would not commit to a timetable for a final release. "We will release a preview of IE10 on Windows 7 in mid-November, with final ...
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Using the slim evidence of new device identifiers, the developer of the popular Instapaper software yesterday speculated that Apple's long-rumored "iPad Mini" will include some of the same components as the low-priced iPad 2 tablet. Marco ...
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As the countdown clock ticks toward Windows 8's launch later this month, Microsoft has still not shown that there will be enough apps to drive users toward the new OS, an analyst said Friday. Last week, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer again ...
Timken Co the bearings maker that trades at the lowest earnings multiple among its peers, is costing shareholders the chance to recoup USD 1.3 billion in market value lost this year by not spinning off its steel unit. Ralph Whitworth's ...
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After shelving its plans for an IPO of Osram, its lighting subsidiary, Siemens has confirmed that it will conduct a spinoff of 80.5% of Osram shares. Siemens AG, the industrial conglomerate that owns lighting manufacturer Osram, has ...
Global manufacturer of medical diagnostic systems Sekisui Diagnostics has opted technologies developed by US-based EMC for setting up a new data center infrastructure. As part of its spinoff from Genzyme, Sekisui preferred EMC VNX ...
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