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...Over time, the technology’s application evolved in the same way as PC use. Productivity has increased sharply as per-unit output costs declined, which is what happens in all manufacturing process....
...on the cloud under Nadella: “Microsoft has staked its future on cloud computing by appointing a company veteran who has presided over its cloud software platforms and services to lead it into the post-PC...
...(Financial Times) Dell shareholders back $24.8bn buyout: “Michael Dell pulled off his hotly contested $24.8bn buyout of the PC maker that bears his name on Thursday, turning the clock back a quarter of...
...(Financial Times) Investor group ISS gives its support to Dell buyout: “Michael Dell’s attempt to buy back control of the PC maker he founded as a student 29 years ago received an important boost on Monday...
...The third largest PC maker by shipments reported $14.07bn in first-quarter revenues, ahead of analyst expectations of $13.52bn but down from $14.4bn a year ago.”...
...(Financial Times) FURTHER FURTHER READING - “For the first time in 11 years, the worldwide PC market is set to shrink in 2012.” - How the NY Fed’s critics promoted the idea they attacked (yikes)....
...- “For the first time in 11 years, the worldwide PC market is set to shrink in 2012.” - Even ratings agencies are unimpressed by ratings agencies. - John Gapper: the US should let Huawei stay....
...the former president of digital journalism for News Corp, said the new advertising-supported venture intended to capitalise on marketers’ growing interest in content served up on smartphones, tablets and PCs...
...“We didn’t know what a PC was,” he says, describing how he and Mr Cohen chose where to go to college by hunching over an almanac and atlas and writing up lists....
...Lanci’s resignation on Thursday came after the Asia’s biggest PC group by sales said last week that first-quarter results would be worse than expected, the second straight quarter that it would miss guidance...
...Tech stocks in particular rallied after Apple and Intel announced new products and service – new tablet PC chips for Intel, an iCloud application for Apple....
...The earnings reports from Intel and IBM flew in the face of concerns that sagging consumer spending, flatter PC markets and disruption to supply chains from the disaster in Japan would dent a tech recovery...
...Hewlett-Packard looked set to win the bidding battle for data storage company 3Par after rival PC maker Dell balked at raising its offer yet again, the FT reports....
...(AT&T told PC Magazine that the letter was “consistent with prior filings” and that AT&T need the deal to lift its coverage from 80 to 97 per cent....
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