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Margaret Kane / CNET News:
Circuit City files for bankruptcy — Struggling electronics chain Circuit City announced Monday that it has filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy. — Chapter 11 allows a company to hold off creditors while it attempts to restructure its finances. Circuit City said Monday that it has has negotiated …
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Reuters:
Circuit City files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy — Circuit City Stores Inc (CC.N: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz), the No. 2 U.S. consumer electronics retailer, filed for bankruptcy protection on Monday, falling victim to tighter credit terms from vendors and a loss of market share to Best Buy Co …
Scott Moritz / Techland:
Nortel cuts jobs, shakes up management — Nortel (NT) plans a major restructuring and another round of job cuts as demand for tech gear plunges. — The Toronto networking equipment giant said Monday it would trim 1,300 jobs on top 1,200 cuts previously announced. Nortel had 32,550 employees at the end of 2007.
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Market Wire:
Nortel Reports Financial Results for the Third Quarter 2008 — Provides Business Review Update — Third quarter revenues and margins in line with September 17th expectations — Challenging environment and stronger U.S. currency result in full year guidance update to around lower end …
Ashlee Vance / Bits:
VMware Lends Virtual Hand to Mobile Phone Crowd — It's a real pain for software makers to plant their code on the wide variety of mobile devices on the market. They have to adapt applications for different processors, other phone innards and a variety of basic frameworks such as Java and Adobe's AIR.
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Ian Lamont / Industry Standard:
Netbooks: An opportunity for Windows, and a threat to Linux — The netbook revolution is upon us. Less than a year ago, the cheap, Atom-powered mini-laptops were a novelty. Now they are shaking up the regular laptop industry. Netbooks are taking marketshare and mindshare, thanks in large part to their low prices.
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Google, T-Mobile, Give AOL a Hand and a Big Check — Apple (AAPL), Research In Motion (RIMM) and Google (GOOG) are duking it out for consumers' smartphone dollars this fall. But here's an early winner: Time Warner's AOL (TWX), which has just landed a giant contract to push Google's G1 phone for the next two days.
Reuters:
YouTube to post full-length MGM films — NEW YORK (Reuters) - YouTube, the largest video-sharing website, will show full-length television shows and films from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's archives in its latest step to boost advertising revenue by adding professional programing, the company told Reuters on Sunday.
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New York Times:MGM to Post Full Films on YouTube
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Wall Street Journal:
Dell Lags in New Products — Michael Dell last year promised innovative new consumer products to generate “product lust” and spark his company's turnaround effort. But in the runup to the holiday sales season, Dell Inc. has been slow to deliver on that promise.
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Suzanne Vranica / Wall Street Journal:
Agency.com Sues Rival Over Clients — Agency.com LLC sued rival digital-ad firm iCrossing Inc., alleging that it poached several of its top executives and clients. — Agency.com, a unit of Omnicom Group, filed suit in state court in Dallas on Thursday, alleging breach of contract …
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Slash Lane / AppleInsider:
iPhone trumps RAZR as most purchased US consumer handset — Apple's iPhone 3G dethroned the top-ranked Motorola RAZR as the leading handset purchased by adult consumers in the U.S. during the third quarter of the year, according to market research firm NPD.
Adam Lashinsky / Fortune:
The genius behind Steve — The CEO is the heart and soul of Apple Inc. yet he's got a deep management bench from which to choose his eventual successor. — (Fortune Magazine) — Let's start with some uncomfortable truths. We wouldn't be publishing an article about the under-the-radar guy who's …
InfoWorld:
Microsoft eyes Visual Studio advancements — Microsoft's Visual Studio software development system is getting a makeover. — With the planned Visual Studio 2010 software development environment, Microsoft intends to offer a new editor based on the company's Windows Presentation Foundation technology …
BBC:
Study shows how spammers cash in — Spammers are turning a profit despite only getting one response for every 12.5m e-mails they send, finds a study. — By hijacking a working spam network, US researchers have uncovered some of the economics of being a junk mailer.
Simon Sage / IntoMobile:
iPhone trounces BlackBerry, Treo in reliability — Man, not only is the iPhone beating BlackBerry in sales and customer satisfaction, but the latest study from SquareTrade is showing that BlackBerrys malfunction about twice as much as an iPhone. Ouch. The survey gathered results …
Patrick Smith / paidContent:
FT.com Relaunching This Week: Pink Front Page, New Name Target ‘Obsessive’ Users — FT.com will tomorrow roll out the latest installment of its long-term web redesign with a pink front page and a region-specific homepage for its growing Middle East audience (preview here).
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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Addicted To Social News? Get A Quick Overview With Newsified — Good (domain) name, cute little concept: Newsified is a minimal aggregation project that offers a centralized birds-eye overview of the most popular social news / bookmarking websites, as well as the top YouTube videos.
