IDG News Service-Facing a sluggish PC market and deferring revenue from sales of its upcoming Windows 8 OS,Microsoft reported$4.47 billion in net income for its first fiscal quarter of 2013,a 22%decline from the same period a year earlier. ...
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IDG News Service-Intel CEO Paul Otellini will retire as an officer and director of the company in May,ending a four-decade career with the company.Otellini is to retire during a stockholders meeting within six months,making sure the ...
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Microsoft has sold 40 million licenses of the Windows 8 OS since its launch a month ago. "We believe Windows 8 is shaping up is as one of the company's most successful products," said Tami Reller, Microsoft's chief marketing officer and ...
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IDG News Service - Advanced Micro Devices announced Monday that its chief financial officer, Thomas Seifert, has resigned from his post and that a hunt is on for his replacement. AMD has appointed Devinder Kumar, senior vice president and ...
Computerworld - With Intel CEO Paul Otellini looking to retire next May, the company's board of directors is already on the hunt for his successor. Now the question is who will make the chip maker's short list to take the helm. Intel's ...
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Research In Motion(RIM)has announced Rob Orr will take over as managing director for its UK and Ireland operations. The current managing director,Stephen Bates,is leaving the post to become the company's first regional managing director ...
COLUMBUS, OH, December 18, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Big data may not be a term often discussed outside the CIO's office today, but according to experts at ICC, a leader in business technology services with a focus on big data and ...
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Bristol-Myers Squibb and Pfizer have announced the approval of Eliquis (apixaban) anticoagulant for the prevention of ischemic stroke and systemic embolism in patients suffering from nonvalvular atrial fibrillation (NVAF) in Japan. The ...
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Dell, once the world's biggest PC maker, has seen its quarterly profits slump by 47 per cent year on year to $475m (£300m), with sales to both consumers and businesses down. Third-quarter revenues from consumers were hit ...
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Everything Everywhere has announced it will launch a new brand identity, but has kept quiet about the finer details. Rumours surfaced that the company was set to make the final steps of the merger and remove the T-Mobile and Orange ...
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Microsoft has blamed lower-than-expected first quarter results on consumers and businesses delaying desktop software upgrades until after Windows 8 is launched. For the three months ending September 30 2012, Microsoft reported revenues of ...
Marks and Spencer Group plc (“M&S”) announces the appointment of Andy Halford to its Board as a Non-Executive Director. He will take up his appointment on 1 January 2013. Andy Halford is the Chief Financial Officer of Vodafone ...
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The Apple effect is rubbing off on Citrix, with the desktop virtualisation specialist posting 16% year-over-year growth for the second quarter of 2012. Sales of iPads and tablet computers have driven adoption of XenApps, said Citrix CEO ...
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IBM's revenues remained relatively flat in the second quarter 2012, although the company reported strong growth in its cloud, analytics and smarter planet initiatives. Total revenues for the quarter fell by 3% to $25.8bn due to currency ...
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Sharon R. Driscoll, who has been senior vice president and chief financial officer of retailer Sears Canada, is leaving to pursue other interests, the company said. Driscoll, who has been with Sears Canada since November 2008 and in her ...