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(Reuters) - Apple Inc is hiring Dixons Chief Executive Officer John Browett, who drove a recent turnaround at the British electronics retailer, to lead the iPad maker's retail expansion. Browett, who has headed Dixons since 2007, was previously chief executive of Tesco PLC's successful online shopping site. Read more
| Posted by James Davey and Juhi Arora on Jan 31, 2012 | ||
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Washington - Factory shipments of major appliances rose 3.7 percent in December, to some 5.1 million units. The increase was likely spurred by last-minute buying, as dealers stocked up on inventory in advance of a new round of manufacturer price hikes that went into effect Jan. Read more
| Posted by Alan Wolf -- TWICE, 1/24/2012 on Jan 30, 2012 | ||
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(Reuters) - Research in Motion's Thorsten Heins plans to waste no time in his new job. The BlackBerry maker's chief executive said he will present the board with his plan for company's future in just a matter of weeks. Read more
| Posted by Sinead Carew and Nicola Leske on Jan 30, 2012 | ||
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(Reuters) - Jon Rubinstein, who was instrumental in crafting Apple Inc's iPod music player, has left Hewlett Packard Co after two years on the job there. Rubinstein was CEO of smartphone maker Palm when that company was acquired by HP in 2010. Read more
| Posted by Poornima Gupta; editing by John Wallace on Jan 27, 2012 | ||
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(Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co posted a record $4.7 billion quarterly operating profit, driven by booming smartphone sales, and will spend $22 billion this year to boost production of chips and flat screens to pull further ahead of smaller rivals. Read more
| Posted by Miyoung Kim on Jan 27, 2012 | ||
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(Reuters) - Apple Inc overtook Samsung Electronics Co Ltd as the world's top smartphone maker in the fourth quarter of last year, with the South Korean company selling about half a million fewer smartphones than its rival, research firm Strategy Analytics said on Friday. Read more
| Posted by Miyoung Kim; Editing by Chris Lewis on Jan 27, 2012 | ||
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(Reuters) - Investors in Apple Inc have a one-word answer for those who wonder whether this corporate juggernaut can maintain its phenomenal momentum in the years ahead: Asia. The iconic maker of the iPhone, iPad and iPod has barely scratched the surface of the region, home to around 60 percent of the world's population -- a fact that Apple itself alluded to in reporting an eye-popping set of earnings this week. Read more
| Posted by Harichandan Arakali and Farah Master on Jan 27, 2012 | ||
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Women in CE has officially announced a first-of-its-kind Career Enhancement Forum, titled "Power Your Career in Consumer Electronics," to take place this June in New York as part of the second annual CE Week. Read more
| Posted by Dealerscope - North American Publishing Company (NAPCO) on Jan 27, 2012 | ||
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Average prices of HDTV units slid to new lows during this year's holiday season, with the average price of 46" LCD TVs falling below $1,000 and 32" TVs falling below $500, both for the first time. That's according to the Quarterly TV Cost and Price Forecast Model , an estimate of holiday averages released this week by NPD DisplaySearch. Read more
| Posted by Stephen Silver on Jan 27, 2012 | ||
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For Christmas this year, I was finally able to shed the cash to pick up an Xbox 360 along with a Kinect. While I do enjoy playing the games, what I’m most enthralled by is using the Kinect when watching TV. Read more
| Posted by Brad McCarty on Jan 27, 2012 | ||
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