Fairfax Financial Holdings, the Canadian investment fund leading a takeover of smartphone maker BlackBerry, is to invest $250m in BlackBerry via a $1bn private placement of convertible debenture. The financing move marks the close of ...
Rockstar, the group that bought Nortel's patents in 2011 following the company's bankruptcy, has taken aim at Google, HTC, Samsung and Huawi for alleged patent infringement. Google itself is accused of seven different counts of patent ...
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Facebook has admitted that teen interest in the popular social media website is waning, even though the number of users grew marginally in the last quarter. "We did see a decrease in [teenage] daily users [during the quarter], especially ...
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Senior executives at ailing smartphone maker BlackBerry met with Facebook executives to find out whether the social media company might be interested in bidding for the Canadian firm. News of the meeting was reported in the Wall Street ...
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For its fiscal second-quarter 2014 (ended 28 September 2013), RF Micro Devices Inc of Greensboro, NC, USA has reported record revenue of $310.7m, up 6% on $293m last quarter and 48.2% on $209.7m a year ago. The growth is attributed ...
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Big data and analytics will help transform PC maker Lenovo from being an enterprise-focused business manufacturer to one with such an understanding of consumers that it will be able to compete against Apple and Samsung. That's according ...
With the Apple launch just an hour away, Computing has been taking a look to see what might be included this time round. Last month, of course, the most intriguing aspect of Apple's iPhone 5S and 5C unveilings was the support for 64-bit ...
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Across large parts of the world Christmas is fast approaching. Retail stores are already stocking the usual tat associated with the festivity while young children begin to prepare their wish lists. Those who have behaved well this year or ...
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PC giant Lenovo is considering a bid for troubled smartphone maker BlackBerry. The news follows the revelation that it has been granted permission to examine the company's books and comes after months of denials that it was interested in ...
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Foreign media quoted a person in the know saying that Lenovo Group Limited (SEHK: 0992) is considering an acquisition of BlackBerry smart phone maker Research In Motion Limited (RIM; Nasdaq: RIMM). The top Chinese maker of computers and ...
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The Angry Birds mobile gaming phenomenon is expanding into the world of racing with a new spin-off game due to launch in December. Dubbed Angry Birds Go! and featuring the franchises now well-known bird and pig characters, the new game ...
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KPMG's Italian business has purchased 3,500 BlackBerry 10 smartphones, and revealed plans to fully migrate its smartphone real estate to BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10. Financial services firm KPMG describes the struggling Canadian ...
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Troubled smartphone maker has moved to reassure its customers - by writing to them and taking out full-page press advertisements telling them that it isn't going out of business. The letters to key customers and partners, reproduced in 30 ...
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The Home Office has said it is working with the biggest mobile phone firms in a bid to implement new security features that would make handsets less attractive to thieves. Crime prevention minister Norman Baker met with the likes of ...
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Tesco's bargain-tastic Hudl 7-inch tablet seems to be going great guns, selling 35,000 units in its first two days alone after release in the UK. It's cheap - coming in at just £120 (or £60 if purchased with specific Tesco ...
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