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IBM (IBM)

International Business Machines and French state-owned rail operator SNCF are set to create a joint venture as part of a six-year IT contract worth 1.7 billion euros ($2.47 billion) in sales, La Tribune reported. The joint venture will be 51 percent owned by SNCF and will involve the maintenance, development and production of applications for the railway operator, the paper said on Tuesday, citing unnamed industry sources.

Jan 12 · 1:04:00 PM · Source: Reuters
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by Larry Etter

IBM (IBM)

IBM Corporation announced that MarineMax, is using IBM business analytics to streamline operational planning, improve decision-making, and enforce more consistent, collaborative information access across the company. Since implementing the solutions, the retailer has been able to cut inventory costs, improve return on marketing spending, and reduce overall planning cycles from months to just a few weeks, among other benefits. - - - - - (repeated)

Jan 12 · 1:01:00 PM · Source: Company News Release
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by Larry Etter

Electronic Arts (ERTS)

Electronic Arts Monday said it expects GAAP and non-GAAP net revenue and earnings per share for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2010 to be below the financial guidance previously provided on November 9, 2009. Revised fiscal year 2010 expectations are primarily the result of weakness for EA and the overall packaged goods sector in Europe in December, and a product mix shift to lower margin distribution products in the December quarter, primarily in North America.

Jan 11 · 4:56:00 PM · Source: Company News Release
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by Larry Etter

QUALCOMM (QCOM)

Qualcomm recently announced that Len Lauer, chief operating officer, has resigned and accepted a CEO role at another company.
As a result, the Qualcomm MEMS Technologies (QMT) organization will now report to Steve Mollenkopf, EVP and president, Qualcomm CDMA Technologies (QCT).

Jan 1 · 3:54:00 PM · Source: Field Technologies Online
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by Michael Oliveto

Oracle (ORCL)

Acacia Research Corporation announced that its Software Tree, LLC subsidiary has resolved a dispute that was pending in the District Court for the Eastern District of Texas with Oracle Corporation.

Jan 1 · 3:41:00 PM · Source: Reuters
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by Michael Oliveto

Google (GOOG)

Google's Bradley Horowitz, vice president of product management at Google, said Google Voice and cloud computing will be huge plays for the search engine giant in 2010.
Expect the Gizmo5 assets to bolster the Google Voice phone management application. Google has been toiling in the cloud computing market for a few years now, hosting its Google Apps collaboration programs for consumers and businesses.

Dec 31 · 9:25:00 PM · Source: eWeek
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by Michael Oliveto

Google (GOOG)

Chinese author Mian Mian, who shot to fame with lurid tales of sex, drugs and alcohol in the underworld, will sue Google this week for copyright infringement, her lawyer said.
Sun Jingwei said the case the first civil lawsuit against Google Inc. in China over the scanning of books into its controversial web library would open at a Beijing court on Tuesday.

Dec 31 · 9:19:00 PM · Source: Reuters
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by Michael Oliveto

Apple (AAPL)

Apple won an appeal over alleged iPod hearing loss when The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco affirmed a 2008 district court ruling that the plaintiffs failed to show that use of the iPod poses an unreasonable risk of noise-induced hearing loss.
It also found that the plaintiffs lacked standing to allege a violation of California's unfair competition law. Jeff Friedman, a Berkeley, California lawyer representing the plaintiffs, did not immediately return a call for comment. David Bernick, who represented Apple, had no immediate comment. An Apple spokesman was not immediately available for comment.

Dec 31 · 2:49:00 PM · Source: Reuters
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by Michael Oliveto

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