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LG Electronics reportedly cuts overseas staff

LG Electronics of South Korea is cutting between 20 percent and 30 percent of its overseas staff in its mobile phone unit and is planning similar measures domestically, according to a report in the Korea Economic Daily. The handset manufacturer, which is struggling to recover from five consecutive quarters of losses, is closing some unprofitable units and laying off staff …

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Motorola Droid Bionic’s Webtop accessories

When we left the Verizon offices a couple days ago with our Droid Bionic in tow, Motorola handed us a veritable mountain of accessories to go along with the phone. That’s because the Droid Bionic has a Webtop application similar to the one on the Atrix 4G and the Photon 4G, and like those two, it requires a special Webtop …

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Facebook revenue doubles to $1.6b, Zuck likes this

Anyone predicting the demise of Facebook thanks to competition from Twitter and Google+ is being a little presumptuous, according to these figures. The company’s revenue doubled to $1.6bn in the first half of 2011, a source told Reuters, with net income almost at $500m. These aren’t official figures, as Facebook doesn’t disclose its results, but considering some investors have estimated …

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