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EU told Microsoft had competition concerns on Vista
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Reuters - The European Commission told Microsoft that it had competition worries about the company's Vista operating system, a Commission spokesman said on Wednesday.
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Bertelsmann set to sell music biz to avoid IPO-media
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Reuters - German media group Bertelsmann is planning to sell its 50 percent stake in music company Sony BMG, which it owns together with Japanese electronics group Sony Corp., to avoid a stock market listing, the Financial Times and the Wall Street Journal said.
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Banks drive Thomson bid of more than $6 bln: paper
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Reuters - Investment banks are putting together a consortium to bid more than $6 billion for the French consumer electronics giant Thomson , The Business newspaper reported on Sunday.
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Google to join S&P 500, shares jump
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Reuters - Google Inc. will replace oil and gas producer Burlington Resources Inc. in the S&P 500 Index, Standard & Poor's said on Thursday sending the Web search leader's shares up 9 percent.
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US says 3 Samsung execs to plead guilty
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Reuters - Three executives with South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. (005930.KS) have agreed to plead guilty and serve jail time for conspiring to fix the price of computer memory chips, the U.S. Justice Department said on Wednesday.
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Electronics News Microsoft delays consumer launch of Windows Vista
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Reuters - Microsoft Corp. said on Tuesday it plans to delay the consumer launch of its much-anticipated Windows Vista until after this year's holiday shopping season, sending its shares down nearly 3 percent.
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Electronics News GameStop Q4 profit rises, boosted by acquisition
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Reuters - GameStop Corp. , the biggest video game retailer, on Tuesday posted a significantly higher quarterly profit, which was boosted by its $1.4 billion acquisition of rival Electronics Boutique in October.
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Electronics News Best Buy to focus on small business customers
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Reuters - Consumer electronics retailer Best Buy Co. Inc. plans to focus on small business customers as a source of growth, the executive vice president of its Best Buy for Business division said on Wednesday.
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Electronics News TDK Corp. To Close European Subsidiary
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Yvonne Lee - AHN Staff Reporter (AHN) - TDK Corp. says Wednesday it will close production facilities at its European subsidiary. The Japanese electronics maker says the TDK Recording Media Europe facilities shutdown will take place at the end of May and will cost $67.8 million. The plant has...
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Electronics News Samsung Develops World's Highest Capacity Smartphone
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Yvonne Lee - All Headline News Staff Reporter Tokyo, Japan (AHN) - Samsung Electronics is launching the world's highest capacity Smartphone, with an embedded 8GB hard disk. South Korea's largest electronics maker says Monday that it plans to release the SGH-i310 in Europe during the...
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Electronics News Samsung Raises 2006 Sales Forecast By 13 Percent
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Matthew Borghese - All Headline News Staff Writer Seoul, South Korea (AHN) - Samsung Electronics Co., is raising its sales forecast for 2006. Samsung, which is currently Asia's largest maker of cell phones and liquid-crystal displays (LCDs), has bumped its prediction up 13 percent, to $67...
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Electronics News Samsung Elec ups '06 sales forecast, but sees risks
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Reuters - Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. raised its 2006 sales forecast on Tuesday, but the estimate was below market consensus and the firm said it was cautious because of the risk of higher oil prices and volatile exchange rates.
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Electronics News RadioShack CEO resigns after admitting lying on resume
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AFP - The head of US consumer electronics retailer RadioShack, David Edmondson, was forced to resign after he admitted inflating his educational background on his resume, according to a company statement.
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Electronics News RadioShack shares off on outlook after CEO quits
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Reuters - RadioShack Corp.'s shares edged lower on Tuesday, a day after Chief Executive David Edmondson resigned, as investors questioned the electronics retailer's prospects for executing its planned turnaround.
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Electronics News Philips cancels $700 mln Dell contract
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Reuters - Philips Electronics said on Monday it had canceled a global computer-management programme with U.S. computer maker Dell which was estimated to be worth up to $700 million over five years.
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Electronics News RadioShack Closing 700 Stores
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Andrea Moore - All Headline News Staff Reporter Dallas, Texas (AHN) - Electronics retailer...
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Electronics News RadioShack 4Q Earnings Drop 62 Percent
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AP - Electronics retailer RadioShack Corp. on Friday said fourth-quarter earnings dropped 62 percent and said it plans to close 400 to 700 underperforming stores and distribution centers in Charleston, S.C., and Southhaven, Miss., as part of a plan to improve its financial performance.
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Electronics News RadioShack CEO says his resume incorrect
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Reuters - RadioShack Corp. Chief Executive David Edmondson said he lied about his academic record, leading the electronics retailer's board to hire a lawyer to advise it on the matter, according to statements released by the company late on Wednesday.
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Electronics News Samsung sees handset sales rising 20 pct
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Reuters - South Korea's Samsung Electronics, the world's third-largest maker of mobile phones, expects its mobile handset sales to rise by up to 20 percent this year, a senior official said on Monday.
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Electronics News Toshiba says may have tampered with reactor data
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Reuters - Japanese electronics maker Toshiba Corp. (6502.T) said on Friday its engineers may have tampered with test data on equipment used in the world's biggest nuclear power station, operated by Tokyo Electric Power Co. (9501.T).
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Electronics News Toshiba to announce Westinghouse deal
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Reuters - Japanese electronics maker Toshiba Corp. (6502.T) said on Monday it would make an announcement in London on its acquisition of shares in Westinghouse at 1045 GMT (7:45 p.m. Japan time).
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Electronics News Toshiba to finalize $5.4 bln Westinghouse deal: report
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Reuters - Japanese electronics conglomerate Toshiba Corp (6502.T) is expected to finalize on Monday its purchase of nuclear-technology concern Westinghouse Electric Co. for $5.4 billion, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter.
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Electronics News Sony in talks to spin off 4 non-core units: source
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Reuters - Sony Corp (6758.T) is in discussions to sell sizeable stakes in four "non-core" businesses, including a retail outlet and a French restaurant launched by the late Sony founder Akio Morita, a source close the matter said on Saturday.
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Electronics News Google blindsides Wall Street with int'l weakness
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Reuters - Google Inc.'s reach may be global, but the Web search leader depends on just two national markets for three-quarters of its sales, and analysts see little chance of it diversifying soon.
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Electronics News Vivendi buys out Matsushita's Universal stake
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Reuters - Vivendi Universal is buying Matsushita Electric Industrial's (6752.T) minority stake in Universal Studios for $1.154 billion in a deal that the French telecoms and media company's earnings expects to boost earnings.
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