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NEC to cut 10,000 jobs as iPhone continues assault on Japan

Japan’s NEC will cut nearly one in ten of its workers as the iPhone continues to gobble up the market for smartphones. The company said this week that recent poor performance stemmed from the popularity of the Apple iPhone in Japan, an increase in the number of foreign rivals it faces in the IT infrastructure market, and trouble expanding beyond …

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Report: New Nook coming this spring

The New York Times today published a long piece about Barnes & Noble taking on Amazon in the “fight of its life.” Buried in the middle of the two-page article is a small mention of engineers “putting the final touches on their [Barnes & Noble’s] fifth e-reading device, a product that executives said would be released sometime this spring.” No …

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