Huawei is now the world's third biggest smartphone maker after a strong fourth quarter, according to Gartner. Should the UK share US fears over Chinese tech firms? Apple iOS watch with smartphone features reportedly in development ...
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Steve Ballmer should be replaced by a CEO from outside of Microsoft in order to bring fresh ideas to the firm's leadership, an ex-senior VP of Microsoft has told Computing. Joachim Kempin, who worked at Microsoft for two decades ...
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The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has refused to "confirm or deny" whether it is investigating bankrupt systems integrator 2e2, after Computing asked the regulator whether it had been called in to investigate the defunct company. The ...
Yahoo has agreed to acquire the development team of mobile app company Propeld, the third mobile start-up it has bought in four months. As first reported by TechCrunch, Propeld's Alike app allows users to discover and recommend nearby ...
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LinkedIn's Q4 earnings comfortably beat analysts' expectations yesterday for a second quarter running, causing shares to rise by almost 10 per cent. Analysts had predicted revenue for Q4 of $279.5m whereas the actual figure came in at ...
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Chess Controls Inc. has named Stephane Mayer regional sales manager for Timmins and Sudbury Mines in Ontario. Mayer, a College Boreal graduate in Greater Sudbury, Ont., joined Chess Controls more than six years ago as technical and ...
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Epcor Utilities Inc. has appointed David Stevens (photo) as the company’s new president and CEO, replacing Don Lowry, who announced his intention to retire from the company by December 2013. Stevens is a 30-year veteran of the ...
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After falling 10% last quarter, for fiscal third-quarter 2013 (to 28 December 2012) Advanced Photonix Inc of Ann Arbor, MI, USA (which designs and makes APD, PIN, and FILTRODE photodetectors, HSOR high-speed optical receivers, and T-Ray ...
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Riber S.A. of Bezons, France, which manufactures molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) systems as well as evaporation sources and effusion cells, says it has sold two MBE 412 systems to a “leading company in Asia”. The two model 412 ...
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Flisom AG of Duebendorf, Zurich, which was spun off from the Laboratory of Solid State Physics of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich) in 2005 to develop technologies for industrial roll-to-roll manufacturing of ...
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LED chip and lighting array maker Bridgelux Inc of Livermore, CA, USA , in Santa Clara, CA, USA. In addition to exhibiting, Bridgelux’s director of Marketing, Aaron Merrill, will lead a session on “Simplified Connectivity and ...
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Houston-based retailer Mattress Firm ranked No. 7 in Workplace Dynamics' annual National Top 150 Workplaces survey of employees. Workplace Dynamics surveyed more than one million employees from 872 companies to create the list, using ...
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David King TVIS, Denmark — Actona Co., a full-line furniture importer based here, is returning to the High Point Market and has hired David King as vice president of sales for the U.S. and Canada. In his new post, King will be ...
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ST. LOUIS — Furniture Brands International said sales rose 3.3% in the fourth quarter, but the company's net loss widened to $22.9 million. The sales increase included a 5.6% jump in sales at its 48 company-owned Thomasville retail ...
ST. LOUIS — Furniture Brands International said Friday that board member James Zimmerman has told the company he will not stand for reelection to the board at the company's May 2 stockholders meeting. Zimmerman, a retired Federated ...