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HP’s Confounding New Strategy: Partners Respond
Partners are holding their breath following HP’s (NYSE:HPQ) multiple bombshells last week — buying software vendor Autonomy for $10 billion, looking to sell off its PC business and abandoning webOS and dumping its Touchpad tablet and smartphones. While most channel experts expect the ripple effects to travel far with these moves by HP, it is…
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Skype Acquires Group Texting Specialist GroupMe
Internet phone service provider Skype announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire GroupMe, a provider of mobile group messaging services that helps users stay in touch and make decisions. GroupMe was founded in 2010 at the Techcrunch Disrupt Hackathon and is headquartered in New York, New York. Terms of the acquisition will…
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HP to Cut PC, webOS Businesses, Acquire Autonomy
Aug. 18, 2011 may well turn out to be a pivotal day in the 72-year history of Hewlett-Packard Co., the world’s largest IT provider. The day boiled down to simple subtraction and addition and not just in reference to the 2011 third-quarter financial report it delivered, which was the most dire one in recent years.…
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Lenovo Launches ThinkPad Notebooks, Mobile Monitor for SMBs
Computer maker Lenovo announced the ThinkPad Edge 14-inch E425 and 15.6-inch E525 laptops for small and midsize businesses and the ThinkVision LT1421 Wide, the company’s first mobile monitor that gives mobile professionals a second screen for on-the-go use to display spreadsheets and make presentations. The ThinkPad Edge laptops offer a slimmer, more polished design complemented…
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10 Features the Amazon Kindle Tablet Must Have to Succeed
10 Features the Amazon Kindle Tablet Must Have to Succeed 1. A Big DisplayThe last thing Amazon should want to do with its upcoming tablet is offering a device that comes with a 7-inch display. In order for any device to be popular in today’s marketplace, it needs to have at least a 9.7-inch screen…
