Computerworld-Google today reported a drop in profit and revenue for the third quarter,an unexpected slip that highlighted an online industry still struggling to make money on a growing mobile market. Google's sagging earnings report ...
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STANLEYTOWN, Va. --Stanley Furniture reported an 8% decline in third quarter sales from the same period a year ago, which the company attributed to decreased sales in its Young America youth furniture line. The company posted a loss of ...
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DUBUQUE, Iowa -- Flexsteel Inds. said its sales rose 11.9% in the quarter ended Sept. 30, while profits rose more than 20% to $2.87 million - a record for its first fiscal quarter. Sales totaled $91.2 million, up from $81.5 million in the ...
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Computerworld-Microsoft has exhausted its initial supply of the lowest-priced Surface RT tablet,which now is backordered by three weeks. On Wednesday,the company's pre-order website noted,"Order now for shipment within 3 weeks"for the$499 ...
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IDG News Service - European privacy authorities have asked Google to tweak the unified privacy policy it introduced on March 1, but have stopped short of asking it to undo all its changes. They set no firm deadline for Google to make the ...
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Computerworld - Scientists studying Earth system processes, including climate change, are now working with one of the largest supercomputers on the planet. The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) has begun using a 1.5 petaflop ...
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Taiwan LiteOn Technology Corporation has hit a two-year monthly high in September revenues, benefiting from its cloud computing server power- management and LED products. The company's PC peripherals has enjoyed new highs in sales as the ...
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Taipei,Oct.15,2012--According to market research organization LEDinside,Taiwan's publicly held LED makers scored total revenue of NT$9.2 billion(US$309 million at US$1:NT$30)in September,slipping 2.28%from August,due chiefly to weak market ...
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The Antigua Group, Inc., one of the nation's leading designers and marketers of genuine golf and sports apparel and makers of Slazenger and Antigua apparel, announced a two-year extension of Antigua's partnership as the official apparel ...
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Apple supplier Foxlink,a maker of iPhone cable connectors,disputed claims on Friday that a company worker committed suicide after being denied a leave of absence,instead suggesting that drug use may have played a role in the worker's death. ...
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Indian outsourcer Infosys blamed continuing global economic uncertainties for a slide in year-on-year revenue growth in U.S.dollar terms,which declined to 2.9%for the third quarter,from 16.7%a year earlier. "It's still very choppy out ...
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* Baosteel leaves November prices unchanged from October * Other major steel mills remain wary of demand SHANGHAI, Oct 11 (Reuters) - An unexpected price freeze by a top Chinese steel mill signals that other players in the world's biggest ...
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IDG News Service-The family of a worker who committed suicide at an alleged Apple supplier in China is blaming his death on the harsh management at the factory and has tried demonstrating against the company,only to be detained by local ...
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IDG News Service - The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to overturn legal immunity for telecom carriers that allegedly participated with a U.S. National Security Agency surveillance program during the last decade. The Supreme Court, without ...
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IDG News Service - A year-long investigation by a U.S. congressional committee has reportedly concluded that Chinese telecommunication equipment vendors Huawei Technologies and ZTE pose a security threat to the nation, and the committee is ...