‘Technology and Science’ Articles
AMD’s CEO prepares chipmaker for a fight
SUNNYVALE, California (Reuters) - Advanced Micro Devices' new chief executive delivered an enthusiastic pitch in his debut before Wall Street analysts, telling them he was getting the struggling PC chipmaker "fit to fight" in a quick-changing computer industry.
Mark Zuckerberg’s nerd manifesto
Mark Zuckerberg presses himself into the public eye. It was his insistence and demanding countenance that first brought to my mind those ancient socialist realist statues of Lenin pressing forward against the wind, oversized, waving a bronzed document, almost a hundred years ago in the century’s first great wave — worldwide wave — of “new [...]
Intel CFO faces fewer worried investors
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Intel Chief Financial Officer Stacy Smith likes the questions he is receiving from Wall Street these days a lot more than the concerns many investors voiced last year about the PC chip giant's ability to adapt to consumers' growing preference for smartphones and tablets.
India court orders licenses cancelled in telecom
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's Supreme Court ordered on Thursday telecoms licenses issued under a scandal-tainted 2008 sale be revoked, striking a decisive blow against corruption that plagues the country and roiling the world's second biggest cellular market.
Exclusive: Hacked companies still not telling investors
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - At least a half-dozen major U.S. companies whose computers have been infiltrated by cyber criminals or international spies have not admitted to the incidents despite new guidance from securities regulators urging such disclosures.
Analysis: Facebook’s daunting Asian challenge
(Reuters) - Facebook aims to connect all two billion Internet users. So far it has captured 845 million of them. Of the rest, nearly 60 percent live in Asia and hooking them is going to be a daunting challenge.
AU Optronics: forms strategic alliance with Idemitsu
TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan's AU Optronics, the world's fourth-largest LCD maker, said on Thursday it would form a strategic alliance with Japan's Idemitsu Kosan to develop next-generation flat screen technology, as the industry struggles with falling prices.
Elpida posts worse than expected quarterly loss
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese chipmaker Elpida Memory Inc posted a worse-than-expected quarterly net loss and said it was in talks on an aid package as it struggles with a tough market and imminent debt repayments that have pushed it to seek an equity partner.
