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Monthly Archives: April 2012

Microsoft Buys Stake In Barnes & Noble’s Digital Business, Investing $300 Million Into It

Microsoft and Barnes & Noble this morning announced the formation of a strategic partnership in a new Barnes & Noble subsidiary. The partnership will accelerate the transition to e-reading, referred to in this release as Newco, will bring together the digital and College businesses of Barnes & Noble. Microsoft will make a $300 million investment in Newco at...

Apple Responds Back To Tax Criticism By Highlighting Job Creation

Apple responded over an in-depth report published by The New York Times that states that the company goes to great lengths to cut its global tax bill...

Oracle CFO: We Never Wanted This Lawsuit With Google

In the recent ongoing Oracle and Google legal battle, Oracle CFO and President Safra Catz made an appearance on the stand at the U.S. District Court on Friday morning, testifying for Oracle’s in its intellectual property trial against Google. Catz replied that Oracle never supplied any financial or technical resources, nor did Oracle ever consider it. “We didn’t...

Hon Hai, Foxconn Feels Financial Squeeze As Labor Cost Increase

In a recent exchange filing, Hon Hai and its Foxconn unit are feeling under the financial squeeze as labor costs increase. Bloomberg reports that Hon Hai said that its first quarter net income came in at NT$14.9 billion, up from NT$14.4 billion a year ago but what fades here is that profits was lower than estimates. “That poor result caught me by surprise,” said Vincent...

Android Accounts For Half Of All Smartphones Sold In Southeast Asia

GfK reports the growth momentum of Southeast Asia’s smartphone market continuing rapidly with all seven key markets in the region reporting a total...

Australia Investigating Why Its Software And Downloads Cost More Than In The US

The first time I read about this I got a smile on my face. This is what the headlines were: Australia is investigating why its software and downloads...

Sprint To Release HTC EVO 4G LTE On May 18th

Sprint which recently seems falling down with a loss of $255 million has seen a rumors winding up about the release date for the EVO 4G LTE on Sprint...

Steve Wozniak: Windows Phone Is More Beautiful And Intuitive Than Android

Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak has this week expressed his thoughts on (via The Verge Forums) Windows Phone, and states that it is more beautiful and intuitive...

Oracle Announces Direct Java Support For OS X, Mac To Get Security Updates

Earlier this month, Apple released an update to Java version 1.6.0_31 for OS X — but not before an estimated 600,000 Macs had been infected by malware....

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Apple And Samsung Settlement Talk Scheduled For May 21st And May 22nd

Following Judge Lucy Koh’s order that both Samsung and Apple’s CEO to go on talk to work together in resolving long-running patent infringement dispute,...