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Adobe beats profit expectations, mulls subscription changes

Stephen Shankland — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:32:04 PDT

The company's Creative Cloud subscriber base grew to 700,000 in the second quarter, but Adobe is considering other options to woo those who don't like the monthly payment plan.

HP shifts PC chief to China, global focus

Larry Dignan — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 08:27:21 PDT

Todd Bradley steps down from HP's PC and printer unit to be replaced by Dion Weisler, a former Lenovo and Acer executive. HP is hoping the two can form an executive tag team to tackle China and Lenovo.

AMD to launch its first ARM chip

Lance Whitney — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 07:55:28 PDT

The chipmaker will roll out a 64-bit ARM processor in the second half of 2014.

Sony under pressure to spin off entertainment unit

Lance Whitney — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 07:18:46 PDT

Hedge fund Third Point, a major Sony stockholder, is pushing the company to separate its entertainment arm into its own company.

Yahoo reportedly eyeing two more acquisitions

Lance Whitney — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 06:31:45 PDT

The company has contact app provider Xobni and video app maker Qwiki in its sights, according to AllThings D.

Originally posted at News - Internet & Media

Nvidia's graphics brawn powers supercomputing brains

Stephen Shankland — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 00:00:00 PDT

The company's graphics chips are finding a foothold in neural networks, a biology-inspired form of computing that is moving from research to commercial tasks like Google's photo recognition.

Originally posted at News - Cutting Edge

Ready or not, compulsory Creative Cloud cometh

Lori Grunin — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 20:00:00 PDT

Adobe's controversial all-Creative Cloud transition for its Creative Suite applications is now available to subscribers.

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AT&T's 4G LTE wins award for 'fastest mobile network'

Don Reisinger — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 07:56:12 PDT

The company's LTE network musters an average of 16.7Mbps download speeds and 7.4Mbps upload speeds in 30 cities around the U.S.

Originally posted at News - Mobile

Telefonica refutes report of AT&T takeover bid

Lance Whitney — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 05:49:38 PDT

The Spanish telecom provider says there's no truth to rumors that it has received acquisition offers.

Originally posted at News - Mobile

Samsung mass-producing speedier solid-state drives

Lance Whitney — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 05:13:10 PDT

The new solid-state drives use PCI-Express (PCIe) connections to deliver speeds more than 2.5 times faster than those of SATA-based SSDs.