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Apple Hires Ex-CEO of Yves Saint Laurent, Paul Deneve, For Special Projects
0By: Ali Raza | July 8th, 2013 | Apple, Business, News
Adam Satariano of Bloomberg has reported that Cupertino-based Apple Inc. is apparently acquiring the services of famous luxury retail brand Yves Saint Laurent’s ex-CEO, Paul Deneve. According to the report, the former CEO of the retail giant, who has recently stepped down from his post, will now directly report to the CEO of App...
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Pure Poppet Set for US Launch
By: Zain Nabi | July 4th, 2013 | Business, News
An Australian natural face-paint brand Pure Poppet is set to enter the US market with a revised business model, making the founder Georgia Holdich confident about the brand’s success in arguably the biggest market of the world. Pure Poppet’s products are already available in Australia and some other parts of the world, but ...
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Women Not Taking Wages for Business They Own: Research Says
By: Zain Nabi | July 4th, 2013 | Business, News
A recent research by the Australian Women Chamber of Commerce and Industry (AWCCI) has highlighted some interesting facts, claiming that most of the women business owners in Australia do not take wages for the work they do. According to the survey that involved 3000 female respondents, around 51 per cent of them did not pay themselves a single wage. This trend is even more common in r...
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Start-ups Flourishing Better Than SMEs, Survey Claims
By: Zain Nabi | July 4th, 2013 | Business, News
Start-ups seem to be serving their owners well financially as compared to those who are running SMEs in Australia, a new survey has claimed. According to the survey, which was carried out by an accounting software provider MYOB, start-ups in recent times have seen better growth and that they are performing better than SMEs. Moreover, SMEs have witnessed more declines in revenues as compared to sta...
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TQ Interviews – Michael De Monte, CEO and Co-Founder of Scribble Technologies
By: Kuljit Grewal | July 3rd, 2013 | Business, News, TQ Profiles
TQ Editor-in-Chief Kuljit Grewal recently had the distinct pleasure of interviewing Michael De Monte, co-founder and CEO of Toronto based Scribble Technologies. Scribble is the company behind the wildly popular and undeniably disruptive ScribbleLive platform, a real time engagement management platform that is used by some of the large...
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Gartner Presents New Forecast for IT Spending
By: Zain Nabi | July 3rd, 2013 | Business, News
Gartner, an information technology research and advisory firm, has released new forecast for IT spending for the current year, this time predicting less spending in the sector as compared to the forecast released earlier this year. In 2012, the total spending in the IT sector was around $3.6 trillion. Last quarter, Gartner predicted growth in spending of around 4.1 per cent in 2013. H...
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BlackBerry Introduces Secure Work Space, A New Security Solution for Android and iOS Enterprise Users
By: Ali Raza | June 28th, 2013 | Android, Business, iOS, Mobile Apps, News, O Canada, Smartphones
Canadian smartphone maker BlackBerry is already offering enterprise management tools for both Android and iOS platforms via BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10 suite, but on Tuesday, June 25th the company launched a new feature known as ‘Secure Work Space’ that will give a superior multi-platform security and device manageme...
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Research Firm Predicts Global Shipments of Apple will Surpass 14 Percent in 2014
By: Ali Raza | June 26th, 2013 | Android, Apple, Business, News, Smartphones, Tablets
According to a new report from Gartner, the number of mobile phone, tablet and PC shipments will increase by approximately 6 percent during this year and touch the 2.35 billion unit mark. Thanks to ever increasing demand for tablets, as the shipments of the slates are expected to rise by 67.9 percent to touch 202 million units mark, while the shipments of mobile phones will increase by 4.5 percent...
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Huawei Chairman says Apple is Sliding and Samsung is Just Hyperbole
By: Ali Raza | June 26th, 2013 | Apple, Business, News, Smartphones
The popular Chinese smartphone maker Huawei is looking to outshine Apple and Samsung with the world’s slimmest smartphone, Ascend P6. The chairman of the company, Richard Yu, has recently...
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Report Indicates Facebook is Working on Flipboard Like Service
By: Ali Raza | June 26th, 2013 | Business, News, Social Media
According to The Wall Street Journal, popular social networking site Facebook is now looking to launch a service similar to RSS Flipboard that will push the social medium into the newspaper category from where users will be able to access news with their mobile devices. WSJ’s sources have claimed that Facebook has been working on th...
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