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G.E. and Intel Working on Remote Monitors to Provide Home Health Care

April 2nd, 2009 · No Comments

Two of the nation’s technology giants, General Electric and Intel, are joining forces to try to cash in on the trend of delivering more health care outside hospitals and doctors’ offices.
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Despite Slump, Intel Plans Big Investment

February 10th, 2009 · No Comments

SAN FRANCISCO — Intel, the world’s largest chip maker, is vowing to spend more money than ever before on new manufacturing technology despite a sharp downturn in its profits.
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The company is holding itself up as a model for others in the United States by increasing capital spending during [...]

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European Court Refuses to Delay Intel Inquiry

January 29th, 2009 · No Comments

BRUSSELS — A top European Union court rejected on Tuesday a request by Intel, the chip maker, to delay an investigation into whether the company broke antitrust laws.
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Regulators at the European Commission have been investigating Intel’s business practices since the start [...]

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Europe Ponders Its Next Step in Intel Inquiry

January 28th, 2009 · No Comments

BRUSSELS — A decision by Intel, the chip maker, to defy European antitrust investigators raised questions Wednesday about how the European Commission should handle the remainder of the investigation and discourage similar behavior.
“This is an unprecedented situation,” said Jonathan Todd, a spokesman for Neelie Kroes, the European competition commissioner. “Never before has a company failed [...]

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Chairman of Intel to Retire

January 23rd, 2009 · No Comments

SAN FRANCISCO — The Intel Corporation, the chip maker, said Friday that its chairman, Craig R. Barrett, who steered the company through the dot-com collapse and has become a high-profile advocate for expanding computing in the developing world, plans to retire in May.
Mr. Barrett, 69, has spent more than three decades at Intel, based in [...]

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Intel to Cut at Least 5,000 Jobs

January 22nd, 2009 · No Comments

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — With demand for its chips drying up at record rates, Intel has decided to shut down several plants and dismiss thousands of workers.
Fresh off one of its worst quarters in the last 25 years, Intel, based in Santa Clara, Calif., told investors after the market’s close on Wednesday that it [...]

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Intel Looks to Invest Despite a Drop-Off

January 16th, 2009 · No Comments

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Despite watching its profits virtually vanish in the fourth quarter, Intel, the world’s largest chip maker, remains committed to spending billions of dollars on new manufacturing facilities and attacking rivals in new markets.
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Paul S. Otellini, chief executive of Intel. The company plans new facilities [...]

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Intel Shifts Image Advertising to a Smaller Agency

January 14th, 2009 · No Comments

Intel is shifting an important advertising assignment — to create brand and corporate image campaigns — to a smaller, independent agency from a Madison Avenue giant.
Intel is hiring Venables Bell & Partners in San Francisco, which works for advertisers like Audi of America and Barclays, as its lead global creative agency, replacing McCann Erickson Worldwide. [...]

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Intel Lowers Its Forecast for a 2nd Time

January 7th, 2009 · No Comments

SAN FRANCISCO — Even after sharply reducing its outlook for the fourth quarter, the Intel Corporation, the chip maker, said Wednesday that it would miss its revenue projection by about $500 million, a sign that PC makers and buyers are being more tightfisted than it seemed only two months ago.
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In Deal With Hitachi, Intel Will Expand Its Flash Memory Business

December 1st, 2008 · No Comments

Intel, the world’s largest chip maker, records most of its profit from its core business, the microprocessors that serve as the brains of most computers. But the company’s side venture in flash memory — which is used to store songs on digital music players and photos on digital cameras — has been another story.
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