Samsung Electronics CEO Kwon Oh Hyun promised that the company will be delivering foldable phones by 2015 during the company’s Analyst Day, according to reports by Engadget and GottaBeMobile. com. The Engadget report noted Galaxy ...
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GT Advanced Technology (GTAT) announced that it has entered into a multi-year supply agreement with Apple Inc. to provide sapphire substrate materials for US $578 million (NT $17 billion). Feeling the effect, Chinese sapphire substrate ...
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Kingsun LED Lights (Kingsun) has signed a LiFi communication and positioning system partnership agreement with Beijing Tsinghua University in May 2013, according to a company post on Chinese social media website Weibo. The company has ...
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Lenovo, the Beijing-based PC and server maker, was rebuffed in its attempt to acquire smartphone maker BlackBerry by the Canadian government, which blocked its bid on national security grounds. According to Canada's Global and Mail ...
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Microsoft is making $2bn every year in patent licensing for Android, according to Nomura financial analyst Rick Sherlund. However, the 95 per cent profit margins it enjoys as a result of the popularity of Android is covering up deep ...
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Software giant Microsoft has drawn up a shortlist of five people to replace Steve Ballmer as CEO of Microsoft - and the shortlist includes former Nokia CEO Stephen Elop and Ford Motor Company's highly rated CEO Alan Mulally, according to ...
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Mendix, the app platform company for the enterprise, has announced a partnership with Triumph Consultancy Services, a specialist life sciences consultancy that has been working for more than 12 years with biopharma, CRO, and medical device ...
Google's increasing use of users' personal data in its services may in the future extend to Maps, where users could see more customised, individual views. Google executives said Tuesday that in the future, what you see could be based on ...
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Acer CEO J.T. Wang is resigning from his post at the Taiwanese PC maker and will be replaced by president Jim Wong as part of a corporate restructuring that will try to revitalize the company's lagging fortunes. Citing the company's ...
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Etisalat and BlackBerry today announced an integrated carrier billing service for BlackBerry smartphone users in the UAE. It will allow Etisalat and BlackBerry customers to purchase applications on BlackBerry World, and pay directly with ...
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Lextar Electronics, a Taiwan-based LED epitaxial wafer and chip maker and LED packaging house, generated net earnings per share (EPS) of NT$1.82 for January-September 2013, according to the company. Lextar recorded consolidated revenues ...
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Foundering BlackBerry has given up for now on finding a buyer. Instead the smartphone company is seeking an infusion of cash from some investors, and shaking up its board and executive leadership. The company will also be getting a new ...
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Facebook is positioning itself as a mobile-first social network, so its interest in the moves of major smartphone companies is natural. BlackBerry is a sinking ship searching desperately for a rescue, so its turning to any major mobile ...
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BlackBerry will change its CEO and accept a US$1 billion loan from a consortium involving shareholder Fairfax Financial Holdings as it struggles with inventory and strategy problems. The company has abandoned plans to sell itself. CEO ...
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BlackBerry's appointment Monday of former Sybase CEO John Chen as its next executive board chair and interim CEO could be the best news in months for the struggling smartphone company. Chen is seen as someone who can give business ...
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