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...Renaissance Technologies founder Jim Simons has named his son co-chairman of the quantitative hedge fund’s board and added five new directors....
...Qubits v bytes: how quantum computing works Quantum computing taps into the quirky behaviour of sub-atomic particles, which bend our normal understanding of physics....
...The challenge for MUFG will be to ensure its new strategic ideas — to boost wealth management and to spend $2bn on cost-cutting technology — translate into a more impressive ROE than the 8.5-9 per cent range...
...It has shut down one of its main engineering sites, making about 40 staff redundant, and put the V-Charge on ice....
Recommendation could return case to lower courts for years more legal wrangling
...The US Supreme Court is to take up a case involving the design of Apple’s iPhone, in a test that could have wider implications for the design-conscious consumer technology company....
...“People focus on hardware way too much — it’s a content business, not a technology business,” he continues. “You can’t put Grand Theft Auto V on an iPhone, it’s not the same experience....
...A similar principle was established for utility patents by the Supreme Court in the case of Markman v Westview Instruments in 1996....
...The Korean electronics company is making a last-ditch effort to overturn a ruling that it says applies patent law too broadly and could impede competition in the technology market by awarding “excessive”...
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...However, one omission from the OnePlus 2 is NFC, the wireless technology that allows for contactless payments and other short-range data transfers....
...But, as we wrote yesterday, the linkages in China’s economy, which we really doubt are all known, make us v wary....
...From 1996 to last year its annual revenue grew at an average rate of 13.6 per cent — outstripping even Samsung Electronics, which over that same period became the world’s biggest technology company by sales...
...“We have to stop coverage of technology being about queueing for an iPhone and make it about society and power.”...
...In effect, you get something for nothing,” says Letts, CEO of Beenz Co. The free beenz market and merchants determine the value....
...Conversely, companies such as Looxcie and V.I.O. are offering wearable video cameras designed to capture real-time point-of-view video clips....
...US pre-orders are more than five times those for the next best-selling game, Ghosts, Activision’s upcoming instalment of its best-selling Call of Duty franchise, according to a ranking from Cowen and Co....
...Top shareholdings: Resolute Forest Products; Dex Media; Cooper Tire & Rubber Company; IBM; Merck & Co; New York Times. Portfolio Value: $2.5bn....
...Mr Murthy said K.V. Kamath, then chairman, contacted him on May 4 and asked him to return to “add value” to Infosys, a company he helped to found in 1981 and ran until 2002....
...The line up is: Portugal v Sweden, France v Ukraine, Greece v Romania and Iceland v Croatia PlayStation 4 launches Sony launches its PlayStation 4 in the US....
It has not been a good week for the world’s favourite phonemakers
...Technology has created an unresolved and urgent question. Who owns pop’s past? Ludovic Hunter-Tilney is the FT’s pop critic...
...emphasise its history of design “firsts”, describing it as a priority from its founding in 1971 and running from the appointment of a new “design-minded” chairman, Lee Kun Hee, in 1996, through to 2005’s V-shaped...
...Hermès also worked with the Four Seasons George V hotel in Paris to create a hand-built Rolls-Royce Phantom, custom-made to the hotel’s specifications....
...A March 2012 report from the US Patent and Trademark Office shows that there has been a steady increase over the last five years in the number of patents granted in all technology areas....
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