Apple's Jobs was open to making a smaller iPad: executive
SAN JOSE, California - Steve Jobs was receptive to Apple Inc making a smaller tablet, a senior executive said in a 2011 email revealed on Friday, fanning speculation it plans to make a mini-iPad to take on cheaper gadgets from Google Inc and Amazon.
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Hopes dim for Sharp amid Japan's TV industry sunset
TOKYO - Sharp Corp shares tumbled nearly 30 percent to their lowest closing level since 1976 on Friday as investors questioned whether Japan's last major maker of television panels will survive the sunset of the country's TV industry.
Synopsys to buy Springsoft for $406 million
- Chip-design software maker Synopsys Inc will buy Taiwan's Springsoft Inc for $406 million, the United States-based company said on Friday, helping to strengthen its presence in Asian, European and U.S. semiconductor markets.
Smartphone maker HTC sees third-quarter revenue drop, only China to grow
TAIPEI - Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC Corp said on Friday it sees sales growing only in China this quarter while other regions decline, forecasting as much as a 23 percent fall overall in revenue, in a further sign of how tough its road to recovery will be.
Tech start-ups: the last refuge of Spanish optimism
MADRID - Half of Spain's youth are unemployed, and yet at the Wayra business start-up project on Madrid's majestic Gran Via avenue, young people buzz around an office chatting animatedly, typing furiously and holding up trails of wire and computer parts.
SAP agrees to pay Oracle $306 million in damages
- Business software maker SAP agreed to pay rival Oracle Corp $306 million in damages over copyright infringement allegations against a SAP unit, avoiding a new trial.
Google should pay $750 a book, say authors in copyright case
NEW YORK - Authors suing Google over the digitization of their books have asked a New York court to order the Internet company to pay $750 (479.36 pounds) for each book it copied, distributed or displayed.
Archery is the ‘new’ curling? I don’t think so, NBC
Alan Wurtzel, NBC’s president of research and development, said on the network’s Olympics conference call Thursday that archery is the new curling. As a former “vice skip”* on my high school’s curling team, I have a message for Mr. Wurtzel: archery is no curling, sir.
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