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Article | 26/04/2013 Wall Street Beat: Earnings highlight smartphones as key to growth
With Apple reporting a decline in profit margins and Samsung consolidating its leadership in the mobile device market, earnings results and market res...
Article | 26/04/2013 Alcatel-Lucent makes loss on static first-quarter revenue
Alcatel-Lucent's first-quarter revenue inched up 0.6 percent year on year, but it reported a net loss after making a profit a year earlier.
Article | 26/04/2013 Samsung profits soar on phones, tablets; high hopes for Galaxy S4
Samsung Electronics said its Galaxy S3 and Note 2 helped it to defy a shrinking smartphone market in the first quarter, boosting its overall profits b...
Article | 26/04/2013 China's Baidu reports weaker profit growth in Q1
China's largest search engine Baidu reported slowing profit growth in this year's first quarter on Friday, as the company's research and development c...
Article | 25/04/2013 Yahoo's chairman steps down after a year
The chairman of Yahoo's board of directors has stepped down from that position and will leave the board entirely later this year, Yahoo said.
Article | 25/04/2013 Samsung delays launch of Knox Android security software until 'later date'
If you're looking for more robust security features for your business's Android phones, you're going to be waiting a while longer--at least if your co...
Article | 25/04/2013 Software AG buys LongJump for cloud PaaS
Software AG has picked up cloud PaaS (platform-as-a-service) vendor LongJump in a bid to give small and medium-sized companies a way to rapidly develo...
Article | 25/04/2013 Sony doubles profit forecast after selling U.S. headquarters, stock holdings
Sony has doubled its profit forecast for its recently ended fiscal year, a widely expected move after it sold off major assets including its U.S. head...
Article | 24/04/2013 Pivotal launched from VMware, EMC technologies
Making good on a promise made in December, VMware and parent company EMC have launched a new company, called Pivotal, to offer an enterprise-ready dat...
Article | 24/04/2013 MetroPCS shareholders OK merger with T-Mobile USA
The merger of T-Mobile USA and MetroPCS cleared its last major hurdle on Wednesday as MetroPCS shareholders overwhelmingly approved the deal.
Article | 24/04/2013 Nintendo misses profit goal as Wii U, 3DS sales sag
Sales of Nintendo's Wii U and 3DS fell short of the company's targets last fiscal year, pulling its profits down to half of what it expected.
Article | 23/04/2013 Apple profit drops on slow iPhone growth
Apple's net profit dropped during the second quarter of 2013 as the company's iPhone shipment growth slowed down, based on year-over-year comparisons.
Article | 23/04/2013 AT&T revenue, net income nearly flat
AT&T has reported revenue of US $31.4 billion for the first quarter of 2013, down slightly from a year earlier, although net income was up slightly, w...
Article | 23/04/2013 SkySQL, MariaDB to merge
Two companies offering third-party support for Oracle's open-source MySQL database, as well as the MySQL offshoot MariaDB, have announced plans to mer...
Article | 22/04/2013 CA Technologies buys Layer 7 for API smarts
CA Technologies is acquiring Layer 7 Technologies, a purveyor of tools for managing and securing application programming interfaces (APIs).