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...The work by experts at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in the US reveals animals’ mental sophistication and promises to boost development in the fast-growing medical field of neuroprosthesis....
...Narasimhan will return to the US to run Starbucks, eventually replacing founder and interim chief Howard Schultz. Will energy prices and inflation fall in the months ahead?...
...Stock market boom and busts occur and recur, abetted by the willing suspension of disbelief, writes co-founder and co-chair of Oaktree Capital Management Howard Marks....
...These acquisitions gave Activision major footholds in gaming for mobile, consoles and PCs....
...And this week hedge fund Brevan Howard moved to invest up to 1.5 per cent of its main fund in cryptocurrencies, according to a person briefed on the matter....
...I was shocked to learn that the lovers are played by a real-life couple, actors Seth Gabel and Bryce Dallas Howard, given their total lack of chemistry....
...In 2015, it launched PlayStation Now, an online streaming service allowing users to pick from a collection of more than 400 titles to play on their consoles or PC for about $10 a month....
...Mr Hirai spent much of his term as chief executive making painful restructuring decisions that led to the sale of Sony’s Vaio PC and battery businesses....
...Notable are Howard Ripley and Justerini & Brooks, who seem to be transmitting the message of the German wine revolution successfully to their relatively traditional customer base....
...That has resulted in the sale of its Vaio PC and battery businesses and decisions to split out as separate businesses its TV and Walkman divisions....
...Today, Samsung’s operating profit margins from Dram memory — commonly used in PCs and data centre servers — and NAND flash memory chips are estimated at more than 60 per cent and 45 per cent respectively...
...Mr Hirai has reined in costs and risked the wrath of traditionalists by ditching Sony’s Vaio laptop and PC business in 2014....
...He became president and chief executive in 2012, taking over from Sir Howard Stringer....
...Byron Howard (Tangled) and Rich Moore (Wreck-It Ralph) directed and co-story-wrote....
...While low-cost, smartphone-based viewers such as Google Cardboard and Samsung’s Gear VR have sold millions of units, more expensive PC-based headsets, such as Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, are estimated to have...
...“The combination of Apple’s size and price moves results in an enormous impact on indices, with the only comparison being International Business Machines’ impact in the early 1980s, when PCs were new, and...
...fast as they did in the early days of PCs....
...“We like the execution of strategy by management and still think there are many growth businesses there which are not properly appreciated — games and imaging sensors being the main ones,” says Howard Smith...
...Over the past year, the company has spun off its television unit into a subsidiary and sold its PC business....
...A decade of restructuring, which accelerated under Mr Hirai, have led to the sell-off of Sony’s Vaio PC brand and a spin-off of its TV business....
...January 2014 Moody’s cuts Sony rating to junk February 2014 Plans to spin out the television business and sell the Vaio PC business are announced....
...Sir Howard Stringer, his predecessor, did not and the group suffered. PCs, for one, should have been ditched long ago....
...Xiaomi’s latest round of financing in August 2013 valued the company at $10bn, more than Microsoft paid for Nokia’s handset business and matching the value of Lenovo, the world’s largest PC maker....
...Mr Hirai’s move signalled that the influence of an “old guard” of senior managers who were seen to have frustrated the reform efforts of his predecessor, Sir Howard Stringer, may be waning....
...And it is about three years since Acer, once the world’s largest notebook maker, began to suffer as consumers shifted towards tablets and spending on PCs declined....
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