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...question of whether hardware makers could simply ship copies of the program with computers to fulfill their responsibilities, without having to go through the more onerous and expensive process of loading the software on every machine shipped in China. While major computer manufacturers such as Lenovo and Hewlett-Packard told reporters they are seeking more information and working with the government, there were signs of possible opposition from the industry. A spokesman for software giant Microsoft told AFP that, while the company believes "the availability of appropriate parental control tools is an important societal consideration for industry and governments around...
...shares of Google and IBM have handily outperformed those of all the other large tech companies based in the U.S. such as Hewlett Packard (HPQ), Microsoft (MSFT), Cisco (CSCO), and Oracle (ORCL). Each of the companies is blessed with substantial earnings and technology staffs in the tens of thousands. But, the firms are not all viewed the same, at least by investors who trade tens of millions of their shares each...
...Singapore is no bastion of socialism. But when the country's economic czars began to attract multinational companies like Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Matsushita to locate their manufacturing facilities in Singapore in the 1960s, they tacitly agreed to keep wages for blue-collar workers low by de-fanging the unions that once had a stranglehold over the labor force. As a cargo handler, for instance, Krishnan made just $1,000 a month...
...that sense, GM is getting off easy: Obama's task force gave Chrysler just 30 days to seal its proposed partnership with Italy's Fiat Group - or else join the likes of American Motors, Packard and Studebaker in the auto graveyard. If Chrysler gets the deal done, the government will lend it $6 billion to sustain its operations. But Chrysler's owner, Cerberus Capital Management, will leave with zero of its $7.4 billion original investment. (See the 12 most important cars of all time...
...good for $10 million in revenue a year. Google is starting a $100 million venture capital arm which will make it the 1,000th largest venture operation in the world. In other words, it will not be managing enough venture money to matter. Then word came out that Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) might use Google's operating system in some of its netbooks instead of Microsoft Windows. The important word in that report is "might." The news that Google is adding thousands of employees a quarter and that the founders have bought a 747 or an aircraft carrier probably...