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• Article | 26/05/2012 Apple CEO Cook's doing a good job, but Jobs 'would have lost his mind over Siri'

  An ex-employee revealed that people at Apple are “embarrassed by Siri”. Siri is Apple’s voice-recognition ‘PA’ feature on iPhones that has come under ...
• Article | 28/05/2012 RIM said to plan to lay off 2000 staff

  Research In Motion, the ailing maker of the BlackBerry, is planning to cut at least 2000 staff as part of a global restructuring plan, according to re...
• Article | 25/05/2012 Wall Street Beat: After Facebook fiasco, don't write off tech IPOs

  The Facebook IPO may have been a fiasco, but don't put the nail in the coffin just yet for other tech offerings this year.
• Article | 24/05/2012 Qualcomm to sell Indian broadband operation to Bharti Airtel by 2014

  Bharti Airtel has invested about US$165 million to acquire a 49 percent stake in Qualcomm's Indian entities that hold broadband wireless licenses, wit...
• Article | 24/05/2012 Ellison, Phillips, McDermott to take stand in Oracle-SAP retrial

  During the upcoming retrial of Oracle's corporate-theft lawsuit against SAP, the companies plan to call a star-studded array of tech executives as wit...
• Article | 24/05/2012 Sony pulls out of LCD JV with Sharp, gets US$126 million investment back

  Sony said Thursday it will pull out of its over three-year LCD TV panel joint venture with Sharp, part of Sony's ongoing attempts to reform its founde...
• Article | 23/05/2012 UPDATED: HP slashes 27,000 jobs as part of restructuring program

  It's official. Hewlett-Packard will cut 27,000 employees as part of its long-term restructuring plan, the company said when it announced quarterly fin...
• Article | 23/05/2012 Lenovo's fiscal Q4 profit up 59 per cent

  Lenovo's net profit for its fiscal fourth quarter grew by 59 per cent, as the world's second largest PC maker saw continued growth in sales across bot...
• Article | 23/05/2012 Oracle buys social relationship management company Vitrue

  Taking a step into the social media marketing industry, Oracle is purchasing Vitrue, the two companies announced Wednesday.
• Article | 23/05/2012 VMware acquires desktop management company Wanova

  VMware has acquired Wanova, a developer of software used to centralize and simplify image management on physical and virtual desktops, the company sai...
• Article | 23/05/2012 Dell's profit shrinks in the first quarter

  Dell has reported a drop in profits for the first quarter, weighed down by a revenue decrease and slower sales of consumer products.
• Article | 23/05/2012 SAP buying e-commerce vendor Ariba for $4.3 billion

  SAP is buying cloud-based e-commerce vendor Ariba for US$4.3 billion, the companies announced Tuesday.
• Article | 23/05/2012 Google has finally closed Motorola Mobility acquisition

  Google has finally closed its acquisition of Motorola Mobility, and will now start working on new devices while keeping Android open, it said on Tuesd...
• Article | 22/05/2012 SAP buying e-commerce vendor Ariba for $4.3 billion

  SAP is buying cloud-based e-commerce vendor Ariba for US$4.3 billion, the companies announced Tuesday.
• Article | 22/05/2012 Vodafone blames difficult economic environment for 12.7 percent profit drop

  Vodafone reported a 12.7 percent drop in net profit for the year to March 31, blaming economic conditions in Europe.