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• 02 November 2011

• News: Lenovo's third quarter profit grew 88 percent

  Lenovo's profit for the third quarter nearly doubled year on year as the company continued its fast-paced growth, beating Dell to become the world's second-largest PC vendor.

• News: Sony books 2Q loss as TVs, PlayStation weigh on profits

  Sony said Wednesday it booked a deep loss during its fiscal second quarter ended Sept. 30, and now expects to be in the red for the entire year, weighed down by poor sales of its TVs and the strong yen.

• News: Sony books 2Q loss as TVs, PlayStation weigh on profits

  Sony said Wednesday it booked a deep loss during its fiscal second quarter ended Sept. 30, and now expects to be in the red for the entire year, weighed down by poor sales of its TVs and the strong yen.

• News: PayPal sets up global operations center in Malaysia

  PayPal has opened a global operations center in Malaysia, its second in the region.

• News: Yahoo to buy advertising services provider Interclick for $270M

  Yahoo said on Tuesday that it has arrived at a definitive agreement to acquire Interclick, a provider of targeted advertising services, for about US$270 million.

• News: Remains of the Day: Ride Lonesome

  Ron Johnson rides off into the sunset, Hulu Plus probably won't be riding onto the Apple TV any time soon, and Pete Townshend rides an unsteady metaphor. The remainders for Tuesday, November 1, 2011 are gonna ride on.

• 01 November 2011

• News: Tap the Social Media Stream for Competitors' Secrets

  Ten years ago, Logicalis, a systems integrator, would have needed a wiretap to overhear the grumblings of a competitor's dissatisfied customer or prospect. But when a Logicalis sales representative stumbled across a LinkedIn status update revealing an individual's frustration with a rival company's cloud service, he knew just what to do.

• News: Cisco taps former VMware exec to head security push

  Cisco today announced a former VMware executive will head up the newly formed Cisco Security Group at Cisco, which combines two formerly separate units into one security-focused group.

• News: Apple Blasted As 'Digital Vampire' by The Who Guitarist Pete Townshend

  Legendary rock guitarist Pete Townshend of The Who has branded Apple’s iTunes music empire a “digital vampire” that bleeds artists’ works because it doesn’t do enough to help out new artists. Speaking at a radio festival in Salford, England, Townshend called for Apple to hire talent scouts and provide artists with more than just a storefront via iTunes, according to the BBC.

• Video: Video: Supply of critical rare-earth elements used in smartphones to expand

  Tucked in the middle of the Desert, near the Nevada Border, Molycorp’s Mountain Pass, California mine specializes in finding rare earth elements hiding in regular-looking rocks.

• News: Adobe acquires Auditude to address video advertising

  Adobe Systems has acquired privately owned Auditude in order to boost its video offerings with an advertising platform, the company said on Tuesday.

• News: Telstra proposes equal power for ACCC and ITA

  Telstra has proposed changes to its structural separation undertaking (SSU), which the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) and the Independent Telecommunications Adjudicator (ITA) would share equal resolution powers to alleviate concerns that the latter would favour the telco.

• News: HP's Personal Systems CTO to retire

  Phil McKinney, vice president and chief technology officer of Hewlett-Packard's Personal Systems Group, will retire from the company at the end of this year, he wrote in a blog post on Monday.

• News: Sega Beats Sales Goals, Profits Still Down 84 Percent From 2010

  Sega Sammy, the financial holdings group that houses both Sega and the Sammy Corporation, is reporting dwindling profits for the Q2 portion of the fiscal year.

• News: NZ tech export sector revenue passes $7 billion

  A five percent increase in revenue saw the New Zealand technology export sector pass the $7 billion mark for the first time, according to a new report due to be released tonight.

• 31 October 2011

• News: What We're Reading from the Nov. 1, 2011, Issue of CIO Magazine

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• News: Takeover fight between Cdn IT patent companies ends

  A takeover battle between two Canadian IT patent licencing companies is apparently over after WiLAN Inc. said it won't try to beat the offer of an American private equity firm for Mosaid Technologies Inc.

• News: Motorola to lay off 800 more workers

  Motorola Mobility will lay off 800 people, the latest in a string of worker reductions at the handset maker, as it prepares to become part of Google.

• News: 8 Ways to Make Peace With Your CMO

  CIOs and CMOs may be the enterprise odd couple, but social media, mobile and Web-interaction models mean they really need to learn to get along. Business strategy depends on it.

• News: Opposition to Stop Online Piracy Act grows

  A coalition of technology trade groups today joined the growing chorus of voices opposing a recently filed anti-piracy bill that they contend is far too heavy-handed.

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