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...Sceptics also argue that Embracer paid top prices for middling-quality studios at a moment of peak pandemic demand; its mobile and PC divisions both shrank on an organic basis during the most recent quarter...
...aforementioned $67.6mn purchase of Oregon-based developer Pipeworks in July 2022, and the cost-as-yet-unknown acquisition in December 2022 of Croatian developer Gamepires, which makes a game called SCUM (PC...
...In fact, if you look at the kind of wave of goodwill, I know it seems difficult to remember now, but the wave of goodwill towards Boris Johnson himself when he was ill with Covid in St Thomas’ Hospital....
...But ByteDance’s decision to pause its IPO plans earlier in the year to ensure compliance bought it some goodwill....
...Now that Intel is the beneficiary of goodwill in Washington and a cold war in Asia, investors are scurrying back....
...Its commitment to social responsibility has built up tremendous goodwill....
...An extensive analogue library became pocket-sized overnight (after a month or so ripping the songs onto a PC, granted)....
...Every laptop purchase at UK retailer Currys/PC World is accompanied by a final pitch at the checkout. Product insurance? PC software?...
...The breach concerns data held on customers of Currys, PC World and Dixons Travel stores in airports. Carphone Warehouse sales are unaffected....
...After dominating the PC era of computing, both companies have been taking some knocks as they try to adjust....
...A Delaware judge ruled on Tuesday that Dell shareholders should have been paid $17.62 per share instead of the $13.75 paid by Michael Dell, in the $24bn buyout of the PC maker in 2013....
...Instead of acquiring foreign brands, sales network or goodwill, they would acquire know-how and technology....
...The worries can be distracting, test colleagues’ goodwill and stretch managers’ patience....
...The industrial action would “involve withdrawal of this goodwill, and would have a significant impact on the services provided to visitors”....
...Let it not be said, though — least of all as we enter this season of goodwill — that we have nothing nice to say....
...The company took a $3.1bn charge in the quarter tied to a goodwill impairment of its oil and gas assets....
...Telecoms companies want to own all means of content delivery over the internet — whether it be via a mobile phone, a tablet, a PC or a set-top box in the corner of the living room....
...charge for the disc business raised questions about whether there could be more goodwill impairments in the future....
...Net income reached $4.97bn, compared with a loss of nearly $500m a year before, when the company took a big goodwill writedown....
...Wall Street is expecting revenues of $20.8bn, an increase of 12 per cent from a year before, with earnings per share rising two cents to 75 cents, excluding the impact of a goodwill impairment charge taken...
...“HP’s challenges with multiple CEO turnovers over the past three years, the back-and-forth in the decision to spin-off or sell its PC business, and announcement of the goodwill impairment charges related...
...When he made his pitch in January 2012, JC Penney had a 3 per cent share of the clothes and housewares market – comparable to Apple’s position in the PC market in 2001....
...Dixons, which owns the Currys and PC World brands, bought its existing 77 per cent stake in Pixmania in 2006 for €266m....
...This year, AVG was voted by readers of the British magazine PC Pro as the best provider of free anti-virus software, which at once highlights how popular the company’s products are, but also how its been...
...Overall, the number of stores, excluding travel outlets, would fall from about 530 to 400-420, the majority of which would combine Currys and PC World....
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