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HP plans to split into two businesses, one for PCs and printers and the other for corporate hardware and services — Hewlett-Packard Plans to Break in Two — H-P will separate its PC and printer operation from its corporate hardware and other units, sources say.
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| Barb Darrow / Gigaom: |
HP is better not together — company to split into enterprise and PC/printer businesses — It's true. The HP IT giant is dividing into two smaller, but still large entities, one focusing on enterprise IT, the other on PCs and printers. — Hewlett-Packard is now forging ahead with plans … | Arik Hesseldahl / Re/code: |
HP revives its three-year-old breakup plan after failing to sell off several business units — HP Returns to Breakup Plan It Shelved Three Years Ago — Computing giant Hewlett-Packard is close to breaking itself into two companies after CEO Meg Whitman ran out of options to turn around …
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Hacked Screenshots Show Friend-To-Friend Payments Feature Hidden In Facebook Messenger — Facebook Messenger is all set up to allow friends to send each other money. All Facebook has to do is turn on the feature, according to screenshots and video taken using iOS app exploration developer tool Cycript …
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Square closes its latest round, raising $150M at a $6B valuation, led by Singapore Investment Corporation — Square Raises $150 Million at a $6 Billion Valuation — It takes money to make money, or so the saying goes. And Square, the e-commerce start-up, wants to make a lot more money.
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Adaptive Path's acquisition by Capital One feels like the end of the long-fading Web 2.0 era — Adaptive Path and the Death Rattle of the Web 2.0 Era — You may not have heard of them, but a little company in San Francisco called Adaptive Path has had an outsized effect on the Web we know.
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| Zachary M. Seward / Quartz: |
The cloud DVR is going mainstream before anyone knows if it's legal — It's perfectly legal in the US to record television programs for personal use, but the situation gets murkier when those recordings touch the web. American courts haven't really decided if cloud DVRs … | Se Young Lee / Reuters: |
Samsung Electronics makes $14.7 billion bet with new South Korean chip plant — (Reuters) - South Korean IT giant Samsung Electronics plans to spend $14.7 billion on a new chip facility - its biggest investment in a single plant - leaning on its semiconductor business to bolster profits as its smartphone dominance wanes.
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Walter Isaacon's “The Innovators” is the most accessible, comprehensive history of the digital age — Book review: ‘The Innovators,’ on the digital revolution, by Walter Isaacson — In the Industrial Revolution's wake, aspiring entrepreneurs combed through a landmark biography of inventors for the secrets to success.| Blair Hanley Frank / GeekWire: |
T-Mobile CEO John Legere on consolidation, acquisition rumors, and improving customer service — Full Video: T-Mobile CEO John Legere unleashed on the GeekWire stage (F-bombs, Bendgate and the ‘porn guy’ who runs Iliad) — T-Mobile CEO John Legere rocked the house at the GeekWire Summit yesterday …
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| Ravi Sharma / Times of India: |
Skype to block local voice calls from India starting November 10 — NEW DELHI: Internet-based calling service Skype will stop delivering calls on landline and mobile phones in India from November 10. The Microsoft-owned company did not give any reason for this move.
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