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| Google silence the skeptics |
4/18/2008 |
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Google’s paid clicks, which measures how often Internet users click on its text ads, were up 20% from a year ago. That was a far cry from the 1.8% growth rate for the first quarter that research firm comScore had reported.
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| Nokia shares down amid rising profits |
4/17/2008 |
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First quarter profits at Nokia were up 25 percent on higher handset sales in Asia and Africa, but these were still lower than analysts' expectations.
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| Health growth for global PC shipments |
4/17/2008 |
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Global PC shipments in the first quarter reflected a healthy market with demand in Europe, Asia, and other regions taking up the slack in a softening U.S. market, two separate research reports released showed.
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| 2008 semi equipment spending to drop 20% |
4/17/2008 |
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Gartner Inc, a market research firm, projects spending for worldwide semiconductor capital equipment to fall 19.8% from last year to $47.5 billion amid weakening US economy and collapsing DRAM market.
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| Philips profits fall on weak TVs sales |
4/15/2008 |
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Royal Philips Electronics announced its core profit for the first quarter fell 28% on sales that increased just over half a percentage point.
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| US received 163,000 H-1B applications |
4/15/2008 |
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During the five-day window in April that the United States was accepting H-1B visa petitions, the government received 163,000 H-1B applications
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| Blockbuster made offer to buy Circuit City |
4/14/2008 |
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Blockbuster, the No. 1 U.S. movie rental chain, on Monday said it has offered to buy electronics retailer Circuit City Stores for about $1 billion to $1.3 billion in cash
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| NAND flash prices up slightly |
4/14/2008 |
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''MLC NAND prices have been moving up as well as with spot pricing for 8-Gbit MLC strengthening about 8 percent over the past couple days alone. 8-Gbit SLC has stayed pretty stable
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| AMD CTO to resign |
4/14/2008 |
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AMD said Friday that senior VP and chief technology officer Phil Hester has resigned. Hester is the third senior executive to leave AMD in less than a year.
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| Bribery allegations may cause Samsung chairman his job |
4/14/2008 |
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Samsung group chairman Lee Kun-hee is expected to step down after a second round of questioning by an independent counsel investigating allegations of bribery at the Seoul, South Korea-based consumer electronics giant, according to reports.
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| Ramtron unveil 2-Mbit FRAM |
4/11/2008 |
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Ramtron has released the industry's first 2-Mb serial F-RAM memory in an 8-lead TDFN package.
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| Micron unveils 4 GB DDR3 DIMM module |
4/10/2008 |
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Micron announced that it is sampling 4 gigabyte (GB) DDR3 modules, designed using 2 gigabit (Gb) components, to provide the industry’s highest density DDR3 modules for notebook computers.
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| VIA and SIS may skip Computex |
4/9/2008 |
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Chipset makers VIA Technologies and Silicon Integrated System (SiS) have decided not to participate in Computex 2008.
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