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...“There’s all these subcontracted, specialty niche firms, and nowhere else does that exist, anywhere else in the world,” Goldberg says....
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...There is an unsavoury smell to this, the more so because Microsoft charged quite high prices for the XP support after 2014 — as much as $1,000 per device per year. Does this amount to exploitation?...
...Elsewhere, Medtronic shares fell about 2 per cent to $58.06 after the medical device maker received an unfavourable ruling from a federal court in Delaware banning it from selling its aortic heart valve...
...Shire, the UK-listed specialty drugmaker, has rejected a £27bn takeover bid from AbbVie in the latest attempt by a US healthcare company to buy an overseas rival with a lower tax burden....
...Hook in African users early to your service, rather than waiting for broadband and spending on devices to catch up....
...But it is hard to foresee anything other than confusion at the moment over what stores will accept what payment, with what device....
...“This,” said Adrian Whitfield, the group’s chief executive, “marks the final step in a long process of transforming Yule Catto into a substantial highly focused specialty polymer business.”...
...Tech news from around the web: Navigation device group TomTom has apologised for supplying driving data collected from customers to police to use in catching speeding motorists, The Register reports....
...Lowell McAdam, Verizon Wireless chief executive, said the two would co-develop smartphones, PDAs, netbooks and “other specialty devices”....
...Also weighing on sentiment was IBM and Advanced Micro Devices. Both companies reported earnings late on Thursday....
...As GlaxoSmithKline decides to streamline its business through a restructuring program, industry sources believe the company could be pursuing takeout overtures for specialty pharma and medical device company...
...Embedded chips are a specialty of rivals such as Texas Instruments and can rely on designs from companies such as ARM and MIPS, which feature reduced instruction set (Risc) processors....
...But biotech deals have proved to be very dilutive for the acquirers and forced Big Pharma to look at diversifying into specialty disease sectors, medical devices and drug technologies....
...In addition, its specialty feed business exposes it to increased meat protein demand in developing markets....
...Danaher, the US manufacturing company, on Wednesday provided further evidence of its strategy to expand in higher-growth businesses when it agreed to buy Sybron Dental Specialties, a dental products group...
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