While earnings from marquee-name tech companies such as Apple and Facebook disappointed this week, sales of mobile devices and enterprise software showed signs of growth. The deluge of earnings reports offered mixed news about sales but ...
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Hershey has lifted its forecast for underlying earnings today (26 July) after managing to increase prices more than expected in the first half of 2012. The US confectioner said price increases had boosted margins and, with selling, ...
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Google and the European Commission have agreed the outlines of a settlement to end a two-year investigation into the internet firm's alleged abuse of its dominant position in the search market. The news comes a week after Google submitted ...
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The year 2010 was the springtime for LED industry, but 2011 was the wintertime. For most manufacturers, the cold winter may last until 2013 or 2014. Since 2009, the notebook computer, monitor and TV have started to adopt LED backlight unit ...
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IDG News Service-Baidu,China's largest search engine,reported second-quarter profits that were up 70 percent from a year earlier as it continued to add new customers for its online marketing services. Baidu's profits for the quarter ended ...
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Microsoft reported its first operating loss since the company went public, during its results call last night. The software giant made some revenue gains in the fourth quarter of 2012, rising 4% year-on-year to $18.06bn, but it also ...
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Google has reported a 10%increase in net income in the second quarter of 2012,reaching$2.79bn,compared to$2.51bn in the same period last year. Revenue from the UK was$1.18bn,representing 11%of Google sales.Total revenue was$12.21bn,up ...
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Google has reported a profit of $2.79 billion in the second quarter, up 11% over the same period of last year, in the company's first financial statement since it finalized its acquisition of Motorola Mobility in May. Motorola brought in ...
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Nokia has announced its second quarter results for 2012 - and they didn't make pleasant reading. A 19% drop in sales, a 39% fall in smartphone shipments and just four million Lumia devices shipped – compare with Apple, which sold 35 ...
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Of 46 Chinese LED chip projects planned in 2009-2010, just 20 put into production Reportlinker has made available a new market research report ‘Global and China LED Industry Report, 2011-2012’ from China Research and ...
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Branded Cities Network ("BCN"), a division of Phoenix, AZ-based EL Media Holdings USA, LLC, announced an exclusive representation agreement to sell digital advertising and integrated marketing campaigns on a new, full motion LED measuring ...
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A way of producing 3D TV images that work no matter where you are in the room could see images stand out from a flat TV screen–without the need for any additional glasses. Depth perception depends on differences between what our two ...
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Computerworld-Smartphone owners plan to vote for President Barack Obama by a wide margin over those favoring GOP rival Mitt Romney for president,according to a recent Harris Interactive survey of 776 smartphone owners. If the election ...
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Privacy advocates today welcomed news of a possible Google proposal to settle Federal Trade Commission (FTC) charges related to its surreptitious tracking of Apple Safari users. The Wall Street Journal, citing unnamed sources, ...
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Yahoo and Facebook have ended their four-month patent battle and formed an advertising partnership. In March,Yahoo sued Facebook for infringing 10 patents ahead of the social network's planned public listing. The following ...
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