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| U.S. PlayStation CEO will step down |
3/7/2014 |
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Sony Computer Entertainment America President and CEO Jack Tretton will end his nearly 20-year run and step down from his position at the end of the month.
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| Facebook Overpaid for WhatsApp |
3/6/2014 |
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Before Facebook (FB) paid $19 billion last month for text-messaging service WhatsApp, Google considered it Overpaid.
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| Walmart slashes iPhone prices |
3/6/2014 |
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Walmart announced price cuts Wednesday on the Samsung Galaxy S4, as well as for Apple’s 16-gigabyte iPhone 5s and 5c, for customers signing two-year contracts with AT&T and Verizon.
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| 6 Million PS4 Worldwide |
3/4/2014 |
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Sony reports that the next-gen video game console has topped 6 million units sold globally.
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| NAND Up, NOR Down in Flash |
3/3/2014 |
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The worldwide market for memory appeared to present a great divide between NAND Flash, which is doing very well, and NOR Flash, which continues to struggle.
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| IBM layoffs 2014, 13000 expected |
3/3/2014 |
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IBM has confirmed that it's laying off a portion of its workforce in order to focus on new priority areas, like the cloud, analytics, and cognitive computing.
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| Tesla soliciting site to build large battery plant |
2/28/2014 |
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Tesla and partners including battery maker Panasonic will invest between $4 billion and $5 billion to build the factory, which would supply battery packs to Tesla's Fremont, California, assembly plant.
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| TD-LTE will catch on in China |
2/28/2014 |
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Qualcomm and Marvell appear to have led rival vendors in the race to win more orders since the two companies have already deepened their deployments in the segment.
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| Ford maps out 70m surroundings for self-driven car |
2/28/2014 |
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The trial vehicle uses a rotating Light Detection and Ranging (Lidar) sensor located on the roof to scan the surroundings with a range of some 70m. The data generated are transformed in real-time into a virtual 3D map that contains all the objects detected in proximity to the vehicle.
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| Lenovo CEO Yang maps out turn-around for Motorola |
2/27/2014 |
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Yang said then the integration of Motorola and Lenovo's handset business would provide economies of scale and significantly slash material procurement cost as well as other expenses. However, this would take time to produce notable results, he said.
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| Tesla Model S elected Top Car of the Year |
2/27/2014 |
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Consumer Report praised the Tesla's (TSLA) "blistering acceleration, razor-sharp handling, compliant ride" as well as its roomy, flexible interior which can seat up to seven people, provided two are small children.
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