LG Exits Traditional PC Market, Thank You Microsoft!

LG now, many more to follow as Microsoft successfully kills its Windows PC market --

LG 'to exit traditional PC market' amid declining sales and profit squeeze | Technology | theguardian.com: "Korea's LG Electronics is said to be preparing to exit the traditional PC market, as worsening margins and sales make it uneconomic, presaging a shift to tablets, smartphones and "hybrid" PCs. The announcement could come at next week's Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, where LG will have one of the first press conferences of the whole event. According to the Korea Times the company has even considered a wholesale exit from Windows PCs as its sales have shrunk...."

Google looks to tap Australian telcos

The Australian
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Microsoft's Chromebook headache

Fortune
Redmond can bash Google's $199 laptop all it wants, but a look at holiday sales ... So was the Amazon announcement good news for Microsoft?

Computing

Google's 4K video format to hit TVs, mobile devices, PCs

PCWorld
Google is working with hardware makers so TVs, smartphones and PCs can play 4K content from YouTube and other streaming services while ...

Headlines & Global News

Google In 2014: 10 Predictions

InformationWeek
Google had a good year in 2013. As of mid-December, its stock was up about 55% for the year. Apple meanwhile was up a mere 4%. Google is ...

Financial Express

Microsoft's Surface Tablet May Have Been Saved by Christmas

Wired
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Ubergizmo

Microsoft's Project Siena Enables App Creation With No Programming

eWeek
Microsoft has delivered a beta version of a Windows 8 app codenamed Project Siena that enables business users to build apps without coding.

TechWeekEurope UK

Apple opens year on rough note after rating's cut

MarketWatch
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Investors put pressure on Apple Inc. early Thursday and never let up on the year's first day of trading after Wells ...

ValueWalk

Google, Starbucks, Marijuana, Duck: Intellectual Property

Bloomberg
Google Inc. (GOOG), operator of the world's most-used Internet search engine, received a patent on a method of creating comic strips on social ...

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