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...Many French cinema owners, who are putting pressure on Cannes to resist Netflix et al, see the streamers’ disruptive attitude as an incursion into their territory....
...Digital news TV switch While newspapers are increasingly taking their lead from BuzzFeed et al, and their mastery of content distribution via platforms such as Facebook, the digital upstarts are shifting...
...At one point he held a crisis meeting to figure out a way to fit the battery and speaker into the allotted space....
...There are more than 1.5m apps available from Apple’s App Store alone – but research indicates users spend more than three quarters of their time on just five of them....
...The other challenge for HP, Dell, et al is that the biggest customers can do it themselves. Google designs and builds its own serv” programme....
...This is simply the fastest path in front of Microsoft to achieve something like Apple’s vision on devices....
...An old fashioned tussle is good theatre, but Mr Ackman et al are company directors, not actors. Their public spat is doing JC Penney no favours at all. Email the Lex team in confidence at lex@ft.com...
...Data Corp....
...Reading my newspaper over coffee this morning, I almost fell out of my chair while perusing a tech story on Google, Amazon et al, which ended with the following observation: “Google, Microsoft and Amazon...
...United States v Apple, Inc et al is more than a US Justice department antitrust action against publishers allegedly colluding on ebook prices....
...It has shied away from licensing, preferring to give away its technology and make money from advertising, but will in future find itself in the position of having to enforce its rights, said Al Hilwa at...
...By adding a hardware business, it will bring an unexpected element of vertical integration to the world’s leading internet company, turning it overnight into a competitor of companies like Samsung and HTC...
...A final ruling from the ITC on the Apple v HTC case is still at least six months away, and Morgan Stanley’s Ms Lu says that “rising litigation uncertainty could remain as a share price overhang” for HTC....
...“That has been Apple’s secret sauce,” Mr Wood adds....
...Google helps out HTC in patent battle Google has stepped into the widening global legal battle between Apple and smartphone makers using the internet company’s Android mobile operating system, throwing its...
...Earlier this year, Apple sued HTC, the Taiwanese handset maker, alleging patent infringement in its Android phones, while Oracle attacked Google last month, claiming Android illegally included elements of...
...“It’s a gamble, but they have no choice but to do it this way,” said Al Hilwa, an analyst at IDC....
...Android, which Google makes available free of charge, has been taken up by handset makers including Motorola and HTC, and in the most recent quarter phones carrying the software overtook Apple’s iPhone in...
...Where it is lacking, in comparison to Apple in particular, is in developer support – apps are thin on the ground in its Marketplace hub, although some showcase apps, such as the IMDb movie database, are...
...The Google executive was proving himself a supreme showman in his keynote and his piece de resistance was to announce that all 5,000 attendees would be given a free HTC Evo phone after his speech – the most...
...But if you are an Apple fan, you may want to wait a little for the iPhone 4G. paul.taylor@ft.com...
...The portfolio of his 95-percent owned investment company, Kingdom Holding, also now includes Apple, News Corp, and stakes in a string of luxury hotels throughout the world, including the flagship Four Seasons...
...Aside from Citi, Kingdom owns some serious assets – stakes in companies like Apple, Pepsico, Proctor & Gamble, News Corporation – as well as genuine trophy assets like the Hotel George V in Paris....
...The Court has stayed all but the first-filed ERISA class action case (entitled Alvidres v. Countrywide Financial Corp., et al.)....
...Charles Kreidl, Chicago, Illinois, US Alex Frankel: There is no doubt that loyalty and turnover are huge issues in the front-line retail environments where I worked (Starbucks, Gap, et al.) as well as across...
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