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HP is planning significant layoffs with the aim of increasing efficiency and focusing on new products, according to a recent report citing an anonymous source. The company could lay off more than 30,000 workers, or nearly 10 percent of the company’s total workforce of 324,000. The large-scale cuts are reportedly part of CEO Meg Whitman’s effort to rebuild the company.
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Target has decided to stop selling anything carrying the Amazon and Kindle brands. “We still have some of the product in our stores, and we expect they’ll be sold by the end of May,” Target spokesperson Molly Snyder told the E-Commerce Times. There’s been some speculation that this move is tied in with Apple’s plans to open mini-stores in select Target retail locations, but Snyder dismissed that possibility.
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Will Apple become a wireless service provider? Absolutely, contends Whitey Bluestein, writer of GigaOm’s Apple blog. But that prediction has been met with widespread disagreement as well as some support. In his blog, Bluestein outlined what he believes will be Apple’s roadmap for getting into the wireless business. First, it will start selling data packages for the iPad.
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Apple is employing several legal tax strategies to take its record-setting profit levels even higher. For example, the company’s business doesn’t just operate out of Cupertino, Calif., where the corporate tax rate is 8.84 percent. Apple has an office in Reno, Nev., where it can manage investments at a zero percent corporate tax rate.
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Without Steve Jobs, Apple will fall from greatness, according to Forrester Research CEO George Colony. “Apple’s momentum will carry it for 24-48 months,” he wrote recently in his blog. “But without the arrival of a new charismatic leader,” he continued, “it will move from being a great company to being a good company, with a commensurate step down in revenue growth and product innovation.”
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