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...But while it’s a clever mix of tablet and laptop, it’s just not powerful enough, according to David Pierce at The Wall Street Journal....
...A weak PC market combined with lower than expected demand for flash memory chips meant the hoped-for upturn in the last few weeks of the year now looked unlikely, Numis said....
...Dixons, which owns the Currys and PC World brands, bought its existing 77 per cent stake in Pixmania in 2006 for €266m....
...DSG International, the parent company of Currys and PC World, slumped to a record low as the cost of insuring its debt spiralled and rumours swirled of tough trading and further problems with credit insurance...
...Similarly, Atradius has reduced its cover to suppliers of DSG International, the owner of Currys and PC World and the UK’s biggest electronics retailer....
...It has experienced problems in Italy and recently closed down its French PC City stores. Shares in DSG were up nearly 2 per cent at 170.8p in early trade in London....
...Richard Ratner, retail analyst with Seymour Pierce, said: “The sales were 2 per cent above what we were looking for at 11 per cent and 6 per cent like-for-like....
...The design, by the Manhattan firm Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates PC, is close to the ground, close to nature, compatible with its natural surroundings; the interiors, by Swanke Hayden Connell Architects, are...
...Group rose 25.3 per cent to 13 5/8p after the US-based 3D software and content company announced an extension of its existing deal with Sharp to use its 3D-enabling technology in Sharp’s updated laptop PC...
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