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...Xerox wants to give HP’s board its walking papers We’re all guilty of overusing the David v Goliath trope but in the case of Xerox and HP, it really does apply....
...The Euro Stoxx technology index is down 1.5 per cent, against a 0.8 per cent fall for the wider Euro Stoxx 600. Semiconductor maker Infineon is among the biggest fallers....
...The International Rectifier deal was the harbinger of massive dealmaking in the semiconductor sector, including Intel’s $16.7bn takeover of Altera, Avago Technologies’ $37bn purchase of Broadcom and Netherlands-based...
...The “heartbleed bug” was found in the OpenSSL software by a team of security engineers last week, leaving technology companies scrambling to fix their systems before it was announced on Monday night....
...Others include Apple, Dell, Starbucks, JC Penney and, most recently, Procter & Gamble, which last month brought back AG Lafley as chief executive....
...Two years ago, it spearheaded a shareholder rebellion at chipmaker Infineon. Mr Börsig would comment “as appropriate” on the Hermes proposal at the annual meeting, Deutsche Bank said....
...A 2001 email from Linda Turner, then an international sales vice president at Micron, said of Hynix’s competing Double Data Rate memory technology, “We want DDR to explode in the marketplace so have actually...
...CA Inc climbed 9.6 per cent to $25.02 as the software developer easily beat analyst expectations....
...Only 220 brands successfully acquired domains this way, including British Airways (ba.co.uk) and Virgin Enterprises (v.co.uk). The auctions ran in August and September....
...Apple in March last year filed a lawsuit with a US District Court and with the US International Trade Commission, accusing HTC of violating 20 patents relating to the iPhone’s user interface, underlying...
...Germany’s Infineon, which said it would feel little impact – either on its end users, or from suppliers of components or equipment, gained 5 per cent to €7.17....
...STMicroelectronics topped the CAC 40 in Paris, rising 2.5 per cent to €9, while Infineon was Germany’s biggest gainer, up 3.9 per cent to €7.75....
...Back on the winning side, Infineon Technologies, the German chipmaker, gained 1.6 per cent to €7.11 after better than expected first-quarter revenues....
...STMicroelectronics fell 3.8 per cent to €9.12 while Infineon shed 3.6 per cent to €7.21....
...Over the week, STM was up 1.8 per cent to €5.63 while German chipmaker Infineon gained 7.4 per cent to €4.62 and Dutch group ASML rose 4.6 per cent to €21.80....
...“There’s definitely a lag between the US and Europe, but deals are beginning to come through,” says Mark Fisher, managing director in the technology and investment banking group at Jefferies International...
...This is an amalgam of the various in-car technologies I saw at the Consumer Electronics Show last week, while this week’s North American International Auto Show in Detroit has also been full of examples...
...Intel fell 2.2 per cent to $17.96 after Infineon Technologies agreed to sell its wireless chip unit to the company for $1.4bn....
...Other technology stocks were boosted by hopes of growth....
...Mr Berchtold, finance director of ZF Friedrichshafen, a car parts supplier, had received the backing of a number of large international and domestic shareholders in the month-long campaign....
...Strong technology stocks helped limit losses in the broader market. Shares in Infineon rose on talk that Intel in US might look to acquire the German chipmaker....
...International and domestic shareholders in the German chipmaker – led by Hermes, the UK fund manager owned by the BT pension scheme – have led a month-long campaign to bar Klaus Wucherer, a long-time Infineon...
...That followed the first big proxy fight in Germany led by institutional investors before Infineon’s annual meeting next month....
...Technology stocks gained after Apple said it had sold more than 300,000 iPad tablet computers on Saturday, their first day on sale....
...Analysis: Europe, a meeting of minds When Infineon faced a shareholder rebellion earlier this year, a look at its share register would have provided the German chipmaker with a bracing reminder of the new...
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