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Midlands looks for respite from recession
Part of the role of a new £40m Manufacturing Technology Centre will be to shore up a sector hit far worse by the downturn than forecasters expected. The damage has been particularly seismic in the manufacturing heartlands of the Midlands
ProMos signs deal with Elpida
ProMos, the Taiwanese D-Ram memory chipmaker, yesterday signed an agreement to provide manufacturing services to Japan's Elpida Memory. Elpida will also licence the...
Skype founders settle dispute
Group of investors free to buy online communications service Skype from Ebay have agreed to give the founders a large stake in the business
NEC plans $1.6bn share sale after losses
NEC has become the latest of Japan’s large electronics companies to raise capital to shore up a recession-hit balance sheet, announcing a Y145bn issue of new shares
Crackdown on Wall St as 14 face charges
US prosecutors escalated their crackdown on Wall Street insider tradingyesterday, as they filed criminal charges against 14 people, including hedge fund managers,...
‘Call of Duty’ set to boost Activision
The release of the game publisher’s latest ‘first-person shooter’ game is expected to be the biggest launch this year and could signal the end of the industry-wide slump
Capgemini aims for top five in US
Paul Hermelin, chief executive of the French IT services group, is planning a series of acquisitions to strengthen the company’s position in the US market
An online shop window
If there is a heaven for pop-culture fashionistas, then the offices of the French internet shopping company Vente-Privee, based in a former Le Monde print plant, could be it
Editorial: Intel in trouble
AMD’s experience is a reminder that tech innovators can flourish even against dominant rivals – but only if regulators remain alert
Google privacy tool unveiled
The internet group has unveiled Google Dashboard, a tool to allow users to see what information the internet company is keeping on them, in an attempt to alleviate the concerns of privacy campaigners
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Goodbye, Macroeconomics
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The broadband numbers racket
Cherry picking broadband penetration numbers to imply the US is slipping into Third World status is fine for a quickie term paper, but adults ought sort through the multi-dimensional complexity of the real world, writes Thomas Hazlett
Dissociated Press
To preserve quality news, we need a plan that knits together business models and not-for-profit initiatives, writes James Boyle
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Can creative industries survive digital onslaught?
Ian Brown examines the competing rights of content producers and file-sharers and argues that new business models are the future, not blocking users
Networks: Sharks and the threat to communications
The business rationale and practical considerations for undersea cables
Did IT Work? BPM is finally aligning business and IT
Technology tools that speak the same language as the business
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