A shareholder group has proposed the ouster of the entire corporate board at Circuit City Stores Inc., the electronics retailer that has struggled to maintain market share.
Wattles Capital Management on Friday proposed a clean sweep at the nation's No. 2 consumer-electronics retailer just days after the group nominated five members for Circuit City's 12-member board.
Investor Mark J. Wattles, the group's principal and founder of the Hollywood Entertainment video-rental chain, has criticized Circuit City's restructuring and turnaround attempts.
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AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition is one of the most popular products on CNET Download.com, with 61 million downloads. On Thursday, publisher AVG Technologies, formerly known as Grisoft, plans to introduce the full version of AVG Anti-Virus 8.0. This upgrade will feature significant changes to the program, integrating the previously stand-alone tools of AVG Anti-Spyware, AVG Anti-Rootkit, and recent AVG purchase LinkScanner as well as showcasing an entirely new interface.
According to Larry Bridwell, AVG's Global Security Strategist, the guts of the program have been overhauled, too. The code rewrite, he stressed, addresses several deficiencies including system slowdowns caused by real-time shields. The integration of LinkScanner, he said, will help warn users of unsafe links, search results, and downloads before they clicked on them. On-demand definition file updates will be made available to users of the free edition for the first time, as will instant messaging protection for users of MSN and ICQ.
Apple confirms sales estimates of iphone and ipod which helped pump up share prices by 4% early Thursday!
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Shares of Apple Inc rose more than 4 percent on Thursday amid optimism on Wall Street that the maker of consumer favorites such as the iPod media player and iPhone can weather economic troubles.
The shares rose $5.46 to $128.42 in early trade on Nasdaq, a bright contrast to slumping broader markets weighed down by mounting U.S. recession fears.
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Hewlett-Packard bought $15 billion worth of semiconductors in 2007, more than any other company in the world, market researcher Gartner said Monday.
The top 10 chip purchasers combined for $91 billion last year, just a 1 percent rise over 2006, Gartner said in its Semiconductor DQ Monday Report.
Most, 38 percent, of the world's semiconductors went into data processing gear last year, while communications took 35 percent of all chips, and consumer goods claimed 20 percent. Chips made for industrial use accounted for 5 percent of global chip revenue, while automotive chips were just 2 percent.
Microsoft has released an updated version of its .Net Micro Framework development platform, adding a Web services component and support for native TCP/IP.
Microsoft introduced an updated version of .Net Micro Framework, a platform for the development of applications that run in a variety of embedded devices, such as retail point-of-sale terminals and home automation systems. Microsoft first introduced the .Net Micro Framework about a year ago in an effort to make it easier for developers to create such applications. It was designed to attract developers who may have avoided using the Windows CE embedded OS because the hardware was too expensive and the OS too complex. With the .Net programming environment, developers can use Visual Studio to more quickly and easily develop applications.
