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Samsung Decides to Spin Off LCD Business

Samsung may be quite the power on the display market, but it looks like its liquid crystal display business is not doing as well as some may think. The company has decided that it was time for the liquid crystal display business to break apart from the whole and follow its own path. Given recent events, this may ...

20 February 2012
09:41 GMT

Witcher 2 Developer Plans 2014 and 2015 Releases on PC and Next Gen Consoles

Video game developer CD Projekt RED has announced that it has plans to launch two new video games, one during 2014 and one during 2015, which will arrive both on the PC and on next-generation home consoles, powered by an all-new game engine that the development team is now working on. Speaking to Eurogamer, Adam Bad...

20 February 2012
05:52 GMT

B&N Nook May Become a Standalone Business

It appears that at least one competitor on the e-reader and tablet market has seen enough success to seriously consider big plans for the future. Barnes and Noble have recently published their financial results, but what may stand out most is the part about future plans. Granted, all the praise that the Nook Color...

6 January 2012
09:30 GMT

HP Keeps PC Business, Acer Approves

Since HP finally said clearly and loudly that it had reconsidered its PC spin-off plans, it is only natural that other PC companies would pipe up and say what they thought about it, and Acer is definitely one of the companies that approves of the move. Last week, we mentioned that HP had finally reached a decision...

31 October 2011
12:01 GMT

HP Will Keep Its PC Business

Whether or not the choice to spin off HP's PC division was what landed Leo Apotheker without his position as CEO, it looks like the company won't be going through with this plan in the end. According to a press release that HP provided, to finally make things clear for everyone, the Personal Systems Group...

28 October 2011
03:06 GMT

HP Holds Off on PC Spin-Off Until Year's End

HP may or may not have foreseen the possibility of things going so badly after saying it wanted out of the PC market, but the decision to spin off the PC business turned into a veritable PR disaster that, per recent reports, has taken its toll on employees and directors alike. HP's announcement that it would...

30 September 2011
09:01 GMT

New HP CEO Faces Partner Demands to Keep PC Business

Meg Whitmans's choice to not revert Apotheker's plan to get HP out of the PC market was, predictably, not warmly received by the majority of its business partners. When Meg Whitman was suddenly put in Leo Apotheker's place, it was generally hoped that the choice to back out of the PC market would b...

29 September 2011
03:29 GMT

HP PC Spin-Off Decision Questioned by VooDoo Founder Too

HP's recent business direction decisions are once again coming under fire, so to speak, although the most recent comments on the part of a certain former HP employee are a bit more tame than what has, so far, been said. Some end-users may recognize the Rahul Sood as the name of a former high-ranking HP emplo...

9 September 2011
04:36 GMT

Analysts Don't Like HP's Recent Decisions

The recent major decisions that HP announced have caused quite the set of ripples, some of which aren't being looked upon very favorably by market observers and financial analysts. That HP is altogether giving up all TouchPad and phones running webOS is one of the two major steps that were announced recently. T...

22 August 2011
05:29 GMT

HP PC Business Breaks Off from the Whole

HP announced major changes to its business plan, including, but not limited to, the spin-off of its PC business, the goal being to move the company into a position where it might draw greater value and margins.One would think that the sudden appearance of the HP TouchPad with 64 GB of storage space would herald furt...

19 August 2011
02:31 GMT

Motorola to Complete Spin-Off on January 4, 2011

On Tuesday, Motorola, Inc. announced officially that it plans on completing the long unveiled separation of its businesses as of January 4, 2011. Basically, on that day, Motorola Mobility Holdings, Inc. (“Motorola Mobility”) will become a separate entity from Motorola, Inc.. The company announced that it...

1 December 2010
11:41 GMT

ASUS Covertly Working on a Killer Product

While it was making inquiries into the status of ASUS' spin-off of Pegatron Technology, its manufacturing arm, Digitimes stumbled upon a very small bit of information that seemed to suggest that ASUS' summer would be packed. According to the website's report, the company is working on what Asustek Chai...

11 February 2010
05:55 GMT

Whip Into Adventure with LEGO Indiana Jones 2

The adventure continues with today's second release of LEGO Indiana Jones, the main character whipping into the adventures of the original movies of the Indiana Jones franchise. You can begin the adventure on new platforms available, the title being released for the Wii, the PS3 and the Xbox 360 at $49.99 and th...

17 November 2009
10:47 GMT

AMD Reorganizes Manufacturing Operations, No Spin Off Included

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. announced about a year ago that its cost-reduction program intended to turn the company to profitability also includes the reorganization of its manufacturing operations. Although no specific details have been unveiled since then, it seems that the Sunnyvale company is getting close to giv...

29 July 2008
04:24 GMT


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