Former Apple CEO Steve Jobs threatened Palm with a patent lawsuit if it did not enter into an agreement in which the companies pledged not to hire employees from each other, unsealed court documents show. Jobs threatened Palm with ...
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China Shenhua Energy Co, a listed subsidiary of Shenhua Group, mined 25 million mt of commercially ready coal in December, up 1.6% year on year, the company said in a statement issued Tuesday. Over January-December 2012, China Shenhua ...
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Users who signed into third-party Web or mobile applications using their Twitter accounts might have given those applications access to their Twitter private "direct" messages without knowing it, according to Cesar Cerrudo, the chief ...
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As it has in the past, SAP spilled the beans a bit early on its fourth-quarter and year-end performance with the release of preliminary results last week. Now the vendor is about to do a full announcement along with the usual conference ...
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A strong Q4 helped. The fourth quarter of 2012 saw Google generate revenue of $14.4bn (£9bn), up 36 per cent on the same period in 2011. Total revenue from outside the US accounted for 54 per cent of Google's sales for the quarter. ...
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Hugh Walton is going back to work for Descente, the clothing brand with which he has had a long relationship. Walton, still recovering from a stroke and open heart surgery last year, is the new assistant manager of Descente North ...
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For composite decking without the mold issues that plagued earlier products, Trex is showing off its latest line, Trex Select, at the International Builders' Show in Las Vegas. Also on display is a new tropical color for both the Select and ...
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On Monday, Esmark Inc., Stahlschmidt Incorporated and Bouchard Group, L.L.C. jointly announced that they have consummated a sale and licensing agreement whereby Stahlschmidt and Bouchard Group have jointly acquired Esmark Technologies from ...
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UTAH-based Fusion-io is making waves in Silicon Valley. With companies such as Facebook and Apple as clients, the $US2 billion ($1.9bn) start-up produces so-called NAND flash boards that are becoming a building block of modern data centres. ...
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A pair of toy industry specialists have formed a new company: Maad Toys. Directors David Kupse (left) and Alan Smith (right) have set up the Manchester-based initiative, which already has "strong financial backing" and several licences ...
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Byan Wilson, Sales & Marketing Manager of International Paper's Temple-Inland Building Products“ division, has taken over as Chairman of the Composite Panel Association (CPA) as of 1 January. Kelly Shotbolt, CEO of Flakeboard, acts ...
Master Java Instructor Michael Ernest has recently published "Java SE 7 Programming Essentials." LOUISVILLE, CO, January 18, 2013 /24-7PressRelease/ -- DevelopIntelligence announces today that Master Java Instructor Michael Ernest has ...
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Chinese firm Lenovo has overtaken Acer in the volume of EMEA PC sales made by quarter, to become the second biggest PC maker in the region, behind HP. According to figures for the fourth quarter of 2012 from analysts IDC, a sustained ...
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When we first heard that big orange bottles of Tide laundry detergent were ending up on the black market, we thought it was an urban myth. But turns out, the National Retail Federation called out Tide as one of the products most targeted ...
Christian Schwarz, who had been CEO of the Swedspan Group owned by the Ikea concern since August 2008, left the group with effect from 9 January 2013. Jörgen Lindquist, who had been appointed as CFO of the Swedspan Group in September ...