Mforma makes Marvel-ous deal
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Rather than tell you, Dan Kranzler chooses instead to show you how he turned Mforma into a worldwide publisher of video games, ringtones and other hot downloads for mobile phones.
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Consumers hoping to enjoy their favorite  comics or Harry Potter book in digital form could soon have a  flexible alternative to clunky laptop computers.
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Marvel Enterprises Inc. is suing two firms behind a computer superhero role-playing game it claims allows players to make virtual characters that are too similar to "The Hulk," "X-Men" and other heroes in the comic book company's stable.
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Westfield (WDC) and a new company to be formed by Multiplex Group(MXG) and the Reuben brothers today announced they are to propose a $1.
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Online movie download site CinemaNow Inc. has struck a deal with software maker Macrovision Corp. aimed at making it easier for manufacturers of media players and other devices to make their products compatible with CinemaNow's on-demand movie service.
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MIGHTY COMBINES Canon and Toshiba said they will create a joint venture next month to develop, produce and sell surface conduction electron emitter display (SED) panels.
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In its latest deal, Microsoft lands a deal with the Japanese consumer electronics deal. Microsoft will get an undisclosed amount of revenue from the agreement.
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A week after the mega-deal between security and management software merger between Symantec Corp. and Veritas Software Corp., EMC Corp.
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TOKYO - Hitachi Ltd, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co and Toshiba Corp said Friday they have officially signed an accord to set up a joint venture to manufacture liquid crystal display panels for flat TVs in January.
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(InfoWorld) - Intel plans to lay off 800 workers from a chip-making plant in Colorado by August, after Marvell Semiconductor began ordering those parts from another supplier, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC). Intel and Marvell have done business since June 2006, when Marvell bought Intel's XScale communications chip division and its 1,300 workers for $600 million. The sale was one component of Intel's sweeping corporate reorganization that also included the layoff of 10,500 employees. Marvell now sells thoseÂ Monahans chipsÂ to vendors of mobile phones, smartphones, and other consumer electronics handsets that use the processors to handle multimedia and mobile Web browsing, telephony, and GPSÂ navigation. Intel learned of Marvell's decision to find a new supplier around January and warned its workers that month that it planned to sell the Colorado Springs plant, said Intel spokesman Chuck Mulloy. He declined to say how much revenue Intel will lose when the contract ends. Intel plans to offer severance packages to its workers beginning in early August. The company also applied for a federal grant to help those workers learn new skills and find jobs, but the U.S. Department of Labor denied the request, he said. Now Intel is appealing the government's action and asking the department to reconsider its decision to withhold a grant from its Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) program. Under the TAA, the U.S. government gives aid to workers who lose their jobs through increased imports, providing them training, job search, and relocation allowances. Intel will continue to supply some components to Marvell from different plants, such as a facility in Santa Clara, Calif. Mulloy declined to say how many of its workers were employed making Marvell parts at that plant. Marvell confirmed it was shifting the business toÂ TSMC, saying its agreement with Intel had been created to last only through the transition of acquiring the cellular and handheld group. "TSMC is definitely the primary fab for us. It was never a long-term plan for Intel to keep manufacturing those chips," said Marvell spokeswoman Diane Vanasse. Marvell is struggling with its own problems, including a delisting threat by the Nasdaq stock exchange for failing to file quarterly reports for the last two terms of 2006, or its 2006 annual report. The company is also restating past results, after finding in May that CEO Sehat Sutardja and other top executives hadÂ illegally backdated stock optionsÂ to increase their value.
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The company announces a license with Lucasfilm.
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Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd.  and two other Japanese companies said on Tuesday they would set  up a joint venture to sell electronic book readers and  distribute novels and comics via the Internet.
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Mediasurface, a maker of content management software (CMS), will buy Immediacy, also a content management vendor, for Â£5.6 million ($11.1 million) the companies announced on Tuesday.
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Media & professional: Basic agreement reached over editorial independence but price yet to be settled.
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As predicted UK mobile operator mmO2 has signed a deal with NTT DoCoMo of Japan to offer i-mode services in Britain. The terms of the agreement will allow the former mobile wing of BT to offer i-mode services
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Mamma Search is Buying Copernic  Mamma.com Inc., the paid search company, and Copernic Technologies Inc. announced that Mamma has signed a letter of intent where they will acquire all of the shares of Copernic Technologies for a combination of cash and shares of Mamma.com Inc. The closing of the acquisition will ...
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By Rosemary Gallagher  EDINBURGH-BASED online mortgage arranger Mform is pioneering direct internet mortgage applications through a partnership with HBOS-owned Intelligent Finance, also located in the Scottish capital.