Awais Khan
Joined on: Nov 30, -0001
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Articles By Awais Khan
(Reuters) – Working conditions at Foxconn’s gargantuan Chinese factories that assemble Apple Inc’s slick gadgets have barely improved despite pledges this year to halt labor violations, workers’ rights activists and employees said on Thursday. Foxconn Technology Group, Apple’s main global contract manufacturer run by Taiwanese tycoon Terry Gou and employing 1.2 million workers inChina, has […]
Jun 1 2012 | Posted in
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Larry Bensadon, Blackberry’s global head of sales strategy, is very open, perhaps in excess. Considered natural that more and more people decide to take your iPhone or Android to work. Intending to do so more safely, in fact gave the example that in the last two weeks the Minister of Interior has lost to its […]
May 30 2012 | Posted in
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(Reuters) – Opera Software shares soared over 20 percent on Tuesday on talk Facebook Inc. was in discussion to buy the firm, while analysts said competition from Google and others could push the price tag of any deal over $1 billion. Shares of Oslo-listed Opera, coveted for its advanced mobile phone software technology, jumped as […]
May 29 2012 | Posted in
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An Italian designer is embarking on an ambitious project to bring a Polaroid camera to the doorsteps of consumers based on the fundamentals of Instagram: capture, retouch, add filters and share in seconds. With a 50 million user base, the device looks to be as big a hit with the end users as the web-based […]
May 28 2012 | Posted in
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Meg Whitman has his scissors out in his hands and is proceeding to cut. The CEO of Hewlett-Packard confirmed that the Palo Alto technology company will proceed to a massive reduction in employment, with the goal of eliminating up to 27,000 jobs , or roughly 8% of the workforce. The announcement came in tandem with […]
May 25 2012 | Posted in
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The struggle between SAP and Oracle, the two software business companies,took another turn as the German giants bought one of the few European multinationals that maintain the international pulse. SAP has reached an agreement to buy Ariba in a deal valued at 3.4 Billion euros, in an attempt to shorten the distance with Oracle who in recent years have grown on the back of […]
May 24 2012 | Posted in
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(Reuters) – Dell Inc forecast disappointing second-quarter revenue as U.S. and European corporate tech spending weakens and consumer personal computer sales continue to shrink, hammering its shares. Shares in the company, which like rival Hewlett-Packard Co is losing market share to mobile devices such as Apple Inc’s iPad, dived more than 11 percent in after hours […]
May 23 2012 | Posted in
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(Reuters) – Apple (AAPL.O) has maintained its place as the world’s most valuable brand over the past year, leading a group of technology-related companies that dominate the top 10, according to a study published on Tuesday. The iPhone and iPad maker has boosted its brand value by 19 percent in the past year to $183 billion, or […]
May 22 2012 | Posted in
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(Reuters) – Imagine taking a snapshot of a group of friends and having your smartphone instantly reveal the identity of everyone in the photo. A new iPhone app called KLiK performs real-time facial recognition to automatically identify and tag friends in photos. "It’s our most recent evolution of both the platform and the consumer product […]
May 21 2012 | Posted in
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(Reuters) – Google said on Saturday that Chinese authorities have approved its $12.5 billion purchase of Motorola Mobility Holdings, the last regulatory hurdle to a deal that would allow the world’s No. 1 Internet search engine to develop its own line of smart phones. Google, which will be the newest entrant to the handset market, […]
May 20 2012 | Posted in
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(Reuters) – The historic initial public offering of Facebook Inc did not go as planned on Friday, as the social networking company’s sky-high valuation combined with trading glitches left the stock languishing near its offering price at the market close. Facebook shares began trading late Friday morning and opened 11 percent above the $38 offering […]
May 19 2012 | Posted in
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(Reuters) – Investors are bracing for Facebook’s Wall Street debut on Friday after the world’s No.1 online social network raised about $16 billion in one of the biggest initial public offerings in U.S. history. Valued at $104 billion, Facebook is larger than Starbucks Corp and Hewlett-Packard combined, sparking intense speculation on how much higher its […]
May 18 2012 | Posted in
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