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...In a bid to reverse the savage decline in sales to Apple and smartphone vendors using Google’s free Android software, Nokia embarked on a strategic volte-face in 2011 under recently arrived chief executive...
...Markets: Global stocks are in sharp retreat, led by a savage plunge in Tokyo, as traders are spooked by the prospect of reduced central bank support and a slowing Chinese economy....
...Modern civil airliners are complex pieces of equipment with as many as 4m components involved in their manufacture....
...Companies have been forced into savage cost cutting as the effects of the credit crunch have sapped confidence and sent order books and commodity prices plummeting....
...Advantest, which makes microchip testers, reported a 36 per cent decline in operating profit in the nine months to December to Y25.6bn, because of falling demand for its equipment....
...Moore’s Law continues to hold true today - more or less - and it is the key to the savage economics of the semiconductor industry....
...Stocks of chip equipment makers fared better on Wednesday, boosted by Intel announcing much higher capital spending in 2005 than expected $4.9bn-$5.3bn, compared with $3.8bn in 2004....
...Career: held product line and sales management positions at Digital Equipment and 3M....
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