Time Warner Cable to Comcast: Integration not easy

(AP) -- The chief executive of Time Warner Cable Inc. offers this warning to Comcast Corp. on its purchase of a controlling stake in NBC Universal: Mixing content and distribution is harder to accomplish than it looks.

Chips' year-over-year sales fall 18 percent in July, SIA says

Global chip sales fell a little more than 18 percent in July from the year-earlier period, but in a sign of improving demand, semiconductor revenue rose on a month-to-month basis for the fifth time in a row, an industry group ...

Japan's Hitachi posts first-quarter loss

Japanese high-tech giant Hitachi announced Tuesday a net loss of 82.7 billion yen (870 million dollars) for the fiscal first quarter with sales down heavily amid the economic downturn.

Toshiba to stop making mobile phones in Japan

(AP) -- Japan's top chipmaker Toshiba Corp. said Wednesday it will end production of mobile phones in Japan due to plummeting demand amid an economic slump.

Business software market likely to stay flat this year

Research firm Gartner Inc. said Monday the market for software sold to businesses is likely to grow only 0.3 percent this year compared to 2008, a downward revision from the firm's previous forecast of 6.6 percent growth.

Nokia to lay off 1,700 worldwide

(AP) -- Nokia Corp. said Tuesday it will lay off 1,700 people worldwide to cut costs, as the global economic downturn strikes deeper into the mobile phone sector.

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