Thursday 17 May 2012
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TORONTO: Blackberry maker Research In Motion Ltd is losing two more senior executives as the money-losing company embarks on a strategic overhaul that its new chief executive says could result in its sale.
Four months after one of Japan’s biggest corporate scandals, police and prosecutors on Thursday arrested seven men, including a former Olympus Corp president and ex-bankers, over their role in a $1.7 billion accounting fraud at the medical equipment and camera maker.
The chairman of South Korea’s Samsung Electronics has been sued by his elder brother over a multi-million dollar inheritance, a law firm said Tuesday. Lee Maeng-Hee, 80, has sued Lee Kun-Hee, 70, for the return of a huge number of shares inherited from their late father, a spokesman for the law firm, Hwawoo, told...
Apple Inc raised the stake in an intensifying global patent battle with Samsung Electronics by targeting the latest model using Google’s fast growing Android software, a move which may affect other Android phone makers.
With growing worries about the threat of “cyber warfare,” militaries around the world are racing to recruit the computer specialists they believe may be central to the conflicts of the 21st century. But whilst money is plentiful for new forces of “cyber warriors,” attracting often individualistic technical specialists and hackers into military hierarchies is...