Primark opened its first store in Austria on 27 September 2012 at Innsbruck SILLPARK.The rush of customers was enormous.The anticipation leading up to the Irish fashion retailer opening its new anchor store made headlines,opened up new ...
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Google has added to its list of acquisitions with the$45m(£28m)purchase of Ukrainian company Viewdle,while at the same time closing a number of unpopular services that have failed to catch on. Viewdle is a developer of facial ...
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Samsung is poised to disrupt the launch of the new Apple iPhone 5 mobile phone, expected this month, by instigating a new lawsuit claiming intellectual property infringement on its 4G patents by Apple. The legal action may even include ...
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Apple has won its high-stakes intellectual property infringement suit against Samsung. The court in the US state of California,where Apple is based,found that Samsung infringed six out of seven Apple patents,while backing Apple's claim ...
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Trading in Google shares was halted today on Nasdaq after poor earnings figures were released-apparently prematurely. The search firm blamed financial print service provider RR Donnelley for releasing its quarterly earnings figures a few ...
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Nokia has posted another near-€1bn loss following a collapse in sales in its key market of Greater China in a third quarter report,published today. The mobile phone handset maker's results had been eagerly awaited as a key indicator ...
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IDG News Service - Microsoft and Nokia will hold a press conference in three weeks, an event that will likely center around Windows Phone 8, the next version of Microsoft's OS for mobile devices. Nokia is a close Microsoft partner in the ...
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Samsung has opened its defence in its patent dispute with Apple. Further reading Apple claims a quarter of Samsung's ₤19.4bn US sales result from infringements Apple and Samsung trade accusations in first day of $2.5bn patent ...
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Google is to cut Motorola Mobility's global workforce by about 4,000,or 20 per cent,and will look to close about a third of its 94 worldwide offices. A Motorola spokesperson confirmed the job cuts in a statement and stated that the ...
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According to LEDinside, the LED research division of TrendForce, despite the rush orders during 2Q12 which kept LED chip and package makers’ utilization rates high, the 3Q12 outlook for LED backlight market turns murky due to the ...
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The last few months have seen a number of developments in the ongoing patent disputes between the major manufacturers in the mobile phone industry. Motorola Mobility has been found to infringe Apple's"slide-to-unlock"patent.Apple ...
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Apple and Samsung Electronics hurled strong statements at each other in the opening rounds of their Silicon Valley patent trial on Tuesday,kicking off a case that could result in billions of dollars in damages. In a packed federal ...
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Residents whose TV signal is affected by the 4G roll-out may have to pay for their own solutions to the problem, according to the government minister responsible. The spectrum freed up by the TV switchover from analogue to digital will be ...
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But the leading manufacturer of CMOS image sensors still sees a need to diversify outside of consumer applications. Diversification strategy:medical applications OmniVision Technologies has reported a strong sequential increase in ...
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In 2011, faced with the complicated and volatile domestic and international economic environment, under the firm leadership of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council, the people of all nationalities of China, taking Deng Xiaoping ...
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