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7 Jan 2009: | Nextar to unveil micro projector and car bluetooth speakers at CES - Wired |
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| Flexible wrist-mounted OLED display excites dick tracys everywhere - Wired |
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| Pentagon goes green with Cree LEDs - Greentechmedia |
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| Soyo to exhibit 20 new products at the CES International 2009 - MSNBC |
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| JVC and Samsung expected to unveil 'Thinnest Ever' LCD TVs - Wired |
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| Nanya to raise DRAM contract price by 10% - Reuters Nanya Technology, Taiwan's No. 2 DRAM chip maker, said on Wednesday it plans to raise the contract price of its chips by 10% in January from the level in late December. |
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| China SMIC discussing stake sale to Intel-sources - Reuters Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp (SMIC), China's top contract chip maker, is discussing the possibility of selling a strategic stake in itself to Intel, sources familiar with the talks said on Tuesday. The possible alliance could help Intel expand its business in China, which it has described as its fastest-growing major market. |
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| CES expectations muted in light of recession - CNNMoney The annual Consumer Electronics Show, or CES, will get underway on Wednesday in Las Vegas. And while conference organizers are still expecting a strong turnout, evidence abounds that many companies will be dialing back on their participation at what is normally a high-profile, and high-dollar, event. |
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| Canada-based Rogers signed up 130,000 iPhone subscribers in 4Q08 (Jan 6) - Cellular News |
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| PCTEL acquires Wi-Sys (Jan 6) - Company release A propagation and optimization solution provider wireless industry announced that it has acquired Wi-Sys Communications, an Ottawa, Canada based company that specializes in GPS antenna and receiver technology. |
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| Amtech announces US$5 Million in Solar orders (Jan 6) - Business Wire |
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| Mobile phone projector beams images up to 50 inches wide - Cellular News |
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| Samsung introducing high-speed, high-capacity "green" SSD for enterprise market (Jan 6) - Business Wire |
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| Phone features largely ignored in the US (Jan 6) - Wireless Week |
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| Yahoo! bringing Internet to Samsung television sets - AP (via Google) |
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| Sanyo to cut 1,000 workers - AP (via Google) |
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| Sanyo to cut up to 1,000 jobs: report (Jan 6) - AFP (via Google) Japan's Sanyo Electric plans to cut up to 1,000 jobs to revamp its struggling businesses before being bought by Panasonic, a press report said Tuesday.
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| IBM may cut thousands of jobs, employee group says (Jan 6) - Bloomberg A post on the Website of employee group Alliance for IBM said the company may cut 16,000 jobs, which would top the 15,600 eliminated by CEO Sam Palmisano in 2002. The worldwide slump has tightened companies' technology budgets and IBM may report a 1.6% drop in sales last quarter to US$28.4 billion, based on the average analyst estimate.
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| Apple to end music restrictions (Jan 7) - BBC News Apple has agreed to start selling digital songs from its iTunes store without copy protection software. |
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| Hynix raises $249 mln in new shares under aid plan - Reuters UK Hynix Semiconductor, the world's No. 2 maker of computer memory chips, is set to raise $249 million in a new share issue this month under a shareholder-led support package, an executive said on Tuesday. |
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| ARM raised on hopes for cheap computer - The Guardian Texas-based Freescale Semiconductor has a prototype low-cost notebook using ARM-designed chips is the latest evidence that the UK company could play a major part in the next wave of computing. |
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| Toshiba offers 500GB designer HDD for £120 - Pocket-lint The palm-sized device in a larger 500GB capacity is on sale from various online retailers now for around £120. |
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| China seen facing wave of unrest in 2009 - Reuters China faces surging protests and riots in 2009 as rising unemployment stokes discontent, a state-run magazine said in a blunt warning of the hazards to Communist Party control from a sharp economic downturn. |
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| Toshiba muscles into solar-energy business - CNET Toshiba, a company best known for making laptops and consumer electronics, on Monday said that it will enter the solar-photovoltaics business. Toshiba's photovoltaics business will be part of the conglomerate's Transmission Distribution & Industrial Systems business, which makes equipment for natural-gas power plants. |
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| DRAM capex to fall 47% in 2009, says DRAMeXchange - Fabtech A slowdown in technology node migrations at the major DRAM producers is adding to the expected capital expenditure cuts manufacturing as companies struggle to combat increasing losses and preserve cash, according to the latest report from DRAMeXchange. The spending cuts are a direct result of the combined DRAM industry losing approximately US$8 billion in 2008. |
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| Spansion borrows $75M under auction-rate securities deal with UBS - Mercury News Spansion, the Sunnyvale flash-memory maker, chose to borrow US$74.8 million of the US$85 million available to it under an agreement with UBS, the Swiss investment banker that holds auction-rate securities that were worth US$121.9 million when Spansion first bought them. The investment has a current estimated market value of US$107.4 million, according to a filing Spansion made Monday. |
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6 Jan 2009: | Dell launches new Inspiron 15 notebook (Jan 05) - Company release |
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| Two big reasons Dell should buy Red Hat (Jan 05) - CNET |
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| Intel, Adobe to tune up Flash for TV devices (Jan 05) - CNET |
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| HP unveils new innovations at CES (Jan 09) - Company release |
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| Austriamicrosystems introduces new energy saving LED controller IC enabling low power dissipation for slimmest LCD TVs (Jan 5) - Business Wire |
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| Japanese LCD, glass makers¡¦ shares jump after reports - Bloomberg |
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| Taiwan LCD shares rise on stabilising panel prices - Reuters |
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| LG Electronics to unveil Broadband HDTVs that instantly stream movies from Neftlix - Company release |
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| Tessera extends patent talks deadline with Motorola (Jan 5) - Cellular News |
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| Sony may not meet LCD TV sales target, president says - Bloomberg |
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| Philips debuts LED TV¡¦s in the UK - about-electronics.eu |
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| Audi R8 V10 gets all LED lighting - Daily Tech |
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| Fujitsu tells WD the deal's off (Jan 5) - The Register |
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| Mirics secures additional US$7 million funding to accelerate worldwide growth (Jan 5) - Business Wire |
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| Samsung says no decision yet on chip investment plan - Reuters Samsung Electronics denied a report saying it may cut its 2009 investment in semiconductors by more than half from last year amid a lingering downturn. "At this point, we have not made any decisions on our investment plan, and even if we had a plan it would be contingent on different economic scenarios that will be possible during this year," Chu-Woo-sik, Samsung's executive vice president of investor relations, told Reuters. |
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| ESS Technology announces VoIP single-chip solution to embed two SLICs and Ethernet switch (Jan 5) - Business Wire |
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| Infineon rights issue could be so wrong (Jan 5) - Forbes |
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| Project to help digital cameras build a bigger picture from tiny particles (Jan 5) - Cellular News |
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| Symbian developer UIQ files for bankruptcy (Jan 5) - Reuters |
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| TomTom announces five millionth Map Share improvement report (Jan 5) - Telematics Update |
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| Samsung plugs web widgets into TVs (Jan 5) - Multichannel News |
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| Blu-ray dominates Christmas sales (Jan 6) - PC World Across the whole holiday season 3.7 million Blu-ray units were sold in Britain, and that doesn't include sales of Sony's Playstation 3 console, which also plays Blu-ray movies. |
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| Sony may announce drastic cost cuts: media (Jan 5) - Reuters Sony is likely to announce closures of Japanese factories and major divisions early next month, the Times of London said on Monday, but the company denied any such plan existed. The maker of Bravia flat TVs and PlayStation video game consoles faces halting sales and mounting piles of inventory in the wake of the financial crisis, even as a stronger yen bites into earnings.
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5 Jan 2009: | LG Mobile to spend one billion RMB on China market (Jan 5) - ChinaNewswires |
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| Sagging Motorola pins hopes on 3G market (Jan 5) - CCTV.com |
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| Freescale chases $199 netbook with new processor - PC World Freescale on Monday is expected to announce a new processor for netbooks that may challenge chip maker Intel on price in the low-cost computing space. The company's i.MX515 processor will run on netbooks, low-cost laptops that are designed to perform basic computing functions like accessing the Internet and running productivity applications. |
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| Motion-controlled based PC by Lenovo coming in March (Jan 5) - Endsights |
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| Nokia to rely on dominant position to weather crisis (Jan 2) - The Financial Times |
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| Interest in home networking migrates to mobile and portable devices (Jan 4) - Cellular News |
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| LG adds a direct Internet link to a Line of HDTVs (Jan 5) - New York Times |
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| Symbian phones hit by SMS vulnerability (Jan 4) - Cellular News |
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| Creative halves workforce but builds Zii hype (Jan 5) - TrustedReviews |
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| LG trumpets 3G wristphone (Dec 30) - The Register LG Electronics has lately been trumpeting its plans to debut a 3G wristwatch phone with a touch screen technology at CES 2009.
The LG-GD910 watch phone is expected to first be sold in Europe next year, although an exact release date has yet to be determined. |
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| Samsung to unveil world's slimmest TV (Jan 5) - The Dong-A IIbo Samsung Electronics plans to introduce the world's slimmest LCD TV at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas from Friday through Sunday. The 6.5mm-thick TV equipped with an LED backlight is seven times thinner than Samsung's Bordeaux 850, the slimmest TV available on the world market.
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| Geopolitical tensions send oil price higher - The Financial Times "Our view is that the underlying theme of the market will change over the course of 2009 from the current 'we are worried about demand' towards 'we are worried about supply'," said analyst. |
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| Flash memory fears for 2009 - Tom's Hardware Guide Taipei-based DRAMeXchange has lowered its outlook for 2009 NAND Flash bit growth from 108.2% to 81%. The market intelligence company cites weakened demand for flash memory as the source, stemming from a decrease in forecast demand for flash memory-based consumer devices in 2009. |
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| Chip stocks dive in 2008 as demand, prices slide - Business Week Shares of chip makers and companies serving the sector suffered during the year. The Philadelphia Semiconductor Sector index, which is comprised of chip companies as well as manufacturers of chip-making equipment, fell by nearly half in 2008. The index closed Tuesday's trading session at 211.26, compared with 408.04 at the end of 2007. |
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| Atmel's German fab completes transfer to Tejas - EE Times Tejas Silicon Holdings (UK) has completed the acquisition of the Atmel wafer fabrication operation in Heilbronn, Germany. The sale follows a leasing agreement announced in September and its completion on December 31 has enabled Atmel to achieve its goal of reducing the number of its manufacturing facilities from five to two in 2008. |
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| SSD capacity battle heating up - Tom's Hardware Guide Mainstream SSD drives tend to be limited to 80 GB or less for affordability. There are drives that have larger capacities, but the cost is significantly higher than a similar HDD, which is what is keeping SSD drives out of the hands of many at this point. Despite this, capacities are ramping up fast! |
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| After worst year ever, commodities may lag recovery - Reuters Commodities, until six months ago the darling of investors and an out-performing asset class, sealed their worst year on record with accelerating losses in the fourth quarter of the year, data showed on Thursday. "At the moment, confidence in the commodity market is short, definitely short. That confidence would start to be restored when we start to see a rebound in equity markets again..." |
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| Chartered alert adds to woes for Singapore - The Financial Times Chartered Semiconductor exemplifies the problems facing Singapore's ailing electronics sector after warning that it will suffer its biggest loss in nearly four years when it reports its results for the last quarter of 2008. |
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| UMC chair found not guilty - eTaiwan news (USE eTaiwanNews) Former United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) chairman Robert Tsao and former vice chairman John Hsuan were found not guilty by the Taiwan High Court yesterday of illegal investments in a Chinese company. |
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| South Korea's exports decline 17.4% in December - Bloomberg South Korea's exports fell by more than 15% for a second straight month in December, adding to signs the economy is headed for its first recession since 1998. President Lee Myung Bak said South Korea will run an "economy-emergency government" this year to fight the worst economic crisis since its 1997 $57 billion bailout by the IMF. |
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| Factories slash output, jobs around world - Reuters Factories in China and India joined much of Europe in slashing output and jobs at a record pace in December, another sign the biggest emerging markets were wilting under the recession gripping industrialized nations. "It feels like we've passed through the eye of the storm," Robert Rennie, chief currency strategist at Westpac in Sydney said of the financial crisis triggered by US bank failures last year. |
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| Android 2 looms as Samsung promises US launch in 2Q 2009 - Rethink Wireless It seems that Samsung will be the first tier one handset maker to release an Android phone, pipping Motorola, Huawei and Sony Ericsson to the post with a 2Q launch in the US planned. |
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| Nokia CEO to favor profit over sales targets: report - Reuters "We will continue to combine market share and margins in the right way in order to maximize the bottom line," Nokia CEO Kallasvuo was quoted as saying in an interview. This in stark contrast to some of its smaller rivals, like LG Electronics, who have said they will do anything to reach their sales targets. |
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| Wall Street starts new year with strong rally - Reuters US stocks started the new year with a big jump on Friday as investors looked beyond yet another piece of grim economic data on hopes that a recovery is on the horizon after a disastrous 2008. Markets shrugged off a report by the Institute for Supply Management that said US factory activity fell to a 28-year low in December, showing a more severe contraction than economists had expected. |
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| JPMorgan cuts 2009 chip growth; Will stocks anticipate the trough? - Barron's JP Morgan analyst Christopher Danely today lowered his estimate for global semi sales in 2009 from a decline of 17% to a decline of 20%, after Wednesday's report from trade group The Semiconductor Industry association that showed a steeper-than-expected decline in chip sales in November. |
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| Qimonda slides after updates - Marketwatch.com (Dow Jones) Computer-chip manufacturer Qimonda Ag said it is taking steps to meet the New York Stock Exchange's market-capitalization standard and increase the price of its American depositary shares to above US$1 to remain listed on the bourse. Qimonda's US-listed shares lost 2.6% in after-hours trading.
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| Samsung to halve chip investment - The Korea Times Samsung Electronics plans to slash its investment in semiconductor chips by more than 50% this year. The world's biggest computer chip maker is considering reducing its investment in semiconductor chips to two-three trillion won, sources told The Korea Times. Samsung invested 6.2 trillion won in chips in 2008, down from its earlier plan of seven trillion won. |
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31 Dec 2008: | How green is Apple? (Dec 30) - Wall Street Journal |
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| Dell preparing senior management changes: report (Dec 31) - Reuters |
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| Phenom Watch Phone launched; Could be yours for US$195 (Dec 30) - Into Mobile |
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| New flat fluorescents are cheaper, better and more efficient - ecogeek |
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| Cree settles patent litigation with Bridgelux - LEDs Magazine |
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| RPI researchers describe LEDs as a catalyst for unexpected technological advances - LEDs Magazine |
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| Finnish company OptoGaN acquired by Onexim for LED lighting joint venture - LEDs Magazine |
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| Samsung Electronics tops the US digital TV set market for 3 consecutive years - Korea IT News |
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| Toshiba to boost LCD TV sales 43% in 2010, Sankei says - Bloomberg |
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| Sony and JVC to Launch LED backlit TVs - Solid State Lighting Design |
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| Cree settles patent suit with LED co. Bridgelux - Venturebeat |
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| LED makers are busy running manufacturing lines - Korea IT News |
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| Cypress intelligent lighting solutions support Nichia power LEDs to deliver a more efficient lighting design process - Marketwatch.com (Dow Jones) |
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| AT&T sells refurbished Apple iPhones for US$99 (Dec 29) - New York Times |
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| Apple shares drop as Jobs health rumors resurface (Dec 31) - Los Angels Times |
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| Japanese WiMAX network launched in Okinawa (Dec 30) - Cellular News |
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| China Mobile signs deal to lease TD-SCDMA network from parent company (Dec 30) - Cellular News |
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| Taiwan's ASE Group to spend RMB 1 billion on Chongqing electronics plant - Pacific Epoch Taiwanese semiconductor company ASE Group plans to invest about one billion yuan in a Chongqing factory for consumer electronic products and components in April 2009, reports China Business News. However, ASE has denied the paper. |
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| Worst holiday shopping season since '70 - CNNMoney The US holiday shopping season is the worst since at least 1970 due to the recession, heavy discounting and harsh winter weather just before Christmas, the International Council of Shopping Centers said Tuesday. |
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| Road to stimulus: Speed bumps ahead - CNNMoney Democratic lawmakers want to pass a far-reaching bill to save the economy by Inauguration Day on Jan. 20. That's the goal, but the reality may be a little different. The reason: The measure will be big and complex--exceeding US$700 billion by some estimates. |
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| When to buy? When to sell? When to divorce? - Reuters Fears of a prolonged recession in China have triggered a sharp increase in divorce inquiries addressed to lawyers and financial advisers, state media reported on Monday, with timing a key issue. |
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| Dutch chipmaker NXP won't go bust, CEO tells paper - Reuters Debt-laden Dutch chipmaker NXP Semiconductor will not go bankrupt, though some of its peers may fall by the wayside, its chief executive told a Dutch newspaper as the sector endures a crippling downturn. "This will keep us going for a very long time. NXP will not go bankrupt," he was quoted on Monday as saying. |
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30 Dec 2008: | High hopes at Yahoo, Intel for Internet-enabled TV (Dec 29) - CNET |
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| Intel launches fresh mobile quad-core chip (Dec 29) - Information Week |
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