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Canon U.S.A. Announces AirPrint Support For One New Model In The PIXMA Wireless Inkjet Printer Lineup With Built-In Refillable Ink Tank System
MELVILLE, N.Y. , Dec. 27, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Canon U.S.A. , Inc., a leader in digital imaging solutions, announced today that one new printer – the PIXMA G4200 - now supports Apple® AirPrint wireless 1 technology. Beneficial for consumers and home office professionals alike, AirPrint 2 allows users to seamlessly print photos, email, web pages and documents wirelessly from iPhone ® , iPad ® and iPod ® touch devices, without the need to download or install any device drivers. In addition to...
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Canon Continues to Expand Mobile Print Options with AirPrint™ Support for imageRUNNER 1400 Series
MELVILLE, N.Y. , June 14, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Adding to the Company's broad range of mobile print options, Canon U.S.A. , Inc., a leader in digital imaging solutions, today announced that the imageRUNNER 1400 Series multifunction office systems now support Apple ® AirPrint wireless 1 technology, enabling seamless printing directly from iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. 2 A printer firmware update is necessary for the AirPrint feature to function with these imageRUNNER systems. 3 As an industry...
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DocuWare PaperScan for WhatsApp
PRESS RELEASE IMMEDIATE RELEASE DocuWare PaperScan for WhatsApp Sharing Scans Made Simple New Windsor NY, – June 27, 2016 – WhatsApp has become a world-wide communication staple, especially for students. In combination with DocuWare’s PaperScan, they can comfortably scan homework or any document with a smartphone and share it via WhatsApp. Since the scan app automatically adjusts and trims the documents, the result is significantly better than with a regular photo. At the end of 2013,...
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Pompano Beach copier company acquires Boca Raton business
Gold Coast Technologies, a copier company in Pompano Beach, has acquired Apple Business Products, a Konica Minolta copier provider in Boca Raton, the companies announced Monday. Headquarters will be at Gold Coast Technologies' location in Pompano Beach, where it has 42,000 square feet of space, said Bob Collins, general manager of Gold Coast Technologies. Gold Coast Technologies and its sister company Intercom Group have 35 employees and Apple Business Products had three employees, who are...
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KYOCERA Introduces TASKalfa 6002i & TASKalfa 3511i Series MFPs
KYOCERA Document Solutions America has announced the introduction of the TASKalfa 6002i, 5002i and 4002i MFPs. The TASKalfa 6002i Series is built to handle the document-production requirements of medium-sized and large workgroups. The 60-page-per-minute (ppm), 50-ppm and 40-ppm models all feature true 1,2000-by-1,200-dpi resolution and Kyocera's a-Si drum technology. There is wide media support from statement to 12-by-18 inches, and a scalable paper supply of more than 7,000 sheets. "These...
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Foxconn Says Apple, Amazon to Join Its Bid for Toshiba Chip Business: Nikkei
TOKYO — Apple Inc and Amazon.com Inc will join Foxconn's bid for Toshiba Corp's semiconductor business, the Nikkei business daily quoted Foxconn Chairman Terry Gou as saying on Monday. The two U.S. technology giants plan to "chip in funds", Gou said, according the interview with the newspaper. It was not immediately clear if this would take the form of a direct investment in the semiconductor unit or would be financing for the deal. Taiwan's Foxconn, formally known as Hon Hai Precision...
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Toshiba searches for a new 'spine'
TOKYO -- Toshiba faces something of an identity crisis. Semiconductors have been the conglomerate's cash cow, but it is selling its flash memory unit to shore up its tattered finances. Somehow, the company needs to find a new calling and a new growth strategy. Its best hope may be technology that has been helping the very business it is selling. Toshiba on Sept. 28 signed a formal agreement to unload the memory unit to an American-South Korean-Japanese consortium led by U.S. investment fund...
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KYOCERA TASKalfa 3252ci Highly Recommended by Buyers Laboratory
Osaka, Japan - November 11, 2016 - Kyocera Document Solutions Inc., one of the world's leading document solutions companies, today announced that Buyers Laboratory LLC (BLI) has certified the Kyocera TASKalfa 3252ci as both "Highly Recommended" and "Reliable Certified" for 2016. BLI is a leading independent provider of product intelligence for the imaging industry, trusted by buyers and IT directors around the world. Over two months, BLI conducted rigorous assessments of virtually all...
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How to add AirPrint to a non-AirPrint printer
While there are plenty of affordable AirPrint-compatible printers out there, you may have already invested in a model that doesn't support Apple's wireless printing protocol. Luckily, adding AirPrint to a non-AirPrint printer is quick, easy, and affordable thanks to a clever Mac app called handyPrint. Formerly marketed as AirPrint Activator, the rebranded handyPrint works by turning a printer connected to your Mac into an AirPrint printer that's shared over your network. Once configured,...
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Apple launches bug bounty program
Apple launches bug bounty program - Now offering up to $1 million to hackers who can find security holes in Apple products - Includes Watch, iPhone, iPad, Apple TV and iCloud
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HP is paying $11 million to protect a New York City-size amount of forests
By Adele Peters 2 minute Read In a threatened stretch of rainforest along the Atlantic coast of Brazil, new restoration work will be funded by a somewhat unlikely partner—the tech manufacturer HP. The company is spending $11 million over the next five years to help the World Wildlife Fund scale up work protecting forests both in Brazil and in China on a total area of land covering roughly 200,000 acres. “It’s an example of what we really want to see replicated more by companies, which is...
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China regulators open antitrust probe of Toshiba deal -newspaper
Dec 14 (Reuters) - Chinese regulators have opened an antitrust investigation into Toshiba Corp’s $18 billion deal to sell its memory chip unit to a consortium led by Bain Capital LP that includes memory maker SK Hynix, possibly delaying the March closing date Toshiba’s leaders have targeted, the Nikkei Asian Review newspaper reported on Friday. Chinese regulators started their review earlier this month, despite the fact that Toshiba had applied for it in September, when it reached a deal...
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China officials reportedly concerned with Hynix role in Toshiba memory chip deal
BEIJING – Antitrust officials in China’s Ministry of Commerce are concerned about the role SK Hynix Inc. will play in the sale of Toshiba Corp.’s memory chip business as the country commences a review of the deal, according to sources. The officials are looking at the fact that Hynix could take a sizable stake in the business if the sale goes ahead, the sources, who asked to remain anonymous as they weren’t authorized to speak on the matter, said. From Toshiba’s side, they may need to...
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As Toshiba's $18 billion chip unit sale faces tight deadline, IPO looms
The conglomerate agreed last year to sell the world’s second-biggest producer of NAND flash memory chips to a consortium led by U.S. private equity firm Bain Capital to plug a huge financial hole left by the bankruptcy of its U.S. nuclear unit. The company has been aiming to complete the sale by March 31, the end of its business year. It said in September that it would need approval from antimonopoly authorities by March 23 to meet that deadline. Toshiba no longer faces immediate insolvency...
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Toshiba Memory sale delayed by Chinese antitrust probe
As Toshiba has raised enough funds to keep its net worth above zero, some activist investors want it to call off the sale of its money-making memory unit. TOKYO -- The sale of Toshiba 's memory chip arm is stuck in a long-running review from Chinese antitrust authorities, making it unlikely that the deal will close before the end of March as originally planned. Although meeting the deadline is no longer vital to the parent's survival, the delay could fuel opposition among shareholders...
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Sharp weighs bid for Toshiba's struggling PC business
OSAKA -- Electronics maker Sharp is reportedly considering a bid to purchase Toshiba 's money-losing personal computer business, aiming to get back into the PC market with help from Apple assembler and Taiwanese parent Foxconn. Read the rest here
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Embattled Toshiba hits a new hurdle as talks with Bain stall
Tokyo/San Francisco — Toshiba’s talks to sell its chips business to a consortium led by Bain Capital hit an impasse over the timing of payments for the business and governance issues, according to people familiar with the matter. The new hurdle casts doubt on the company’s ability to complete a deal quickly. The Bain group wants to make cash payments after Toshiba resolves a legal dispute with partner Western Digital, while Toshiba wants the money earlier, said the people, asking not to be...
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Toshiba's $18 Billion Chip Deal Delayed Because Apple Hasn't Agreed to Terms
Toshiba announced last Wednesday, Sept. 20 that it would sell the lucrative chip unit to a group led by Bain Capital, expecting the deal to close the next day. The deal is set to be the culmination of a nine-month search for a buyer and serve as a financial windfall that will keep struggling Toshiba trading on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. The deal has not yet closed, forcing Toshiba to ask lenders to roll over $6.1 billion in credit lines set to expire Sept. 30. At the same time, lenders have...
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Apple-Backed Billionaire Makes Case to Buy Toshiba Chip Unit
Terry Gou , the billionaire behind Apple Inc. ’s iPhone factories, is pressing his case to acquire Toshiba Corp. ’s memory chips business for 2.1 trillion yen ($19.5 billion) in a last-ditch effort to beat out two American buyout firms in the tumultuous auction. Gou’s Foxconn Technology Group has broad support for its offer from Apple , SoftBank Group Corp. and Sharp Corp. and is ready to proceed right away, said Louis Woo, a spokesman for the company, whose primary listed arm is Hon Hai...
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Toshiba, keen to seal $18 billion chips sale, wrestles with last-minute delays
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan’s Toshiba Corp ( 6502.T ) is locked in last minute discussions over “key issues” with the would-be buyers of its $18 billion memory chip business led by U.S. private equity firm Bain, potentially delaying a formal agreement on the sale. Toshiba said on Wednesday it had agreed to sell the prized unit to the Bain consortium, and had been expected to formalize the sale on Thursday. read the rest here
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Toshiba inks deal to sell chip unit to Bain-Apple group for $18 billion
Toshiba agreed Thursday to sell its chip division for 2 trillion yen ($17.7 billion) to a Bain Capital-led consortium that involves large U.S. technology firms including Apple and Dell. Earlier this year, Toshiba shareholders gave the go-ahead for the sale of the memory business; Toshiba is the world's second largest producer of NAND flash memory — behind Samsung . And last week, the board agreed to sell the unit to the Bain consortium. The group consists of Japan's Hoya Corporation , South...
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Distinguished Xerox Partner Just-Tech Buys Apple Valley Office Products To Accelerate Managed IT, Custom App Businesses
by Alec Shirkey on October 2, 2017, 7:20 pm EDT Printer-friendly version Email this CRN article A busy year for print solutions provider Just-Tech continued this week, as the Xerox partner further expanded its geographic footprint with the acquisition of fellow Xerox agent Apple Valley Office Products. Apple Valley marks the second deal completed in the past six months by Just-Tech, which purchased Huntington, W.V.-based Peake Office Solutions in April. The La Plata, Md.-based Just-Tech has...
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KONICA MINOLTA ACQUIRES MACPROFESSIONALS, THE APPLE PLATFORM EXPERTS
Ramsey, NJ, May 21, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Technology giant, Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A., Inc . (Konica Minolta) continues to accelerate its business transformation to become a leading edge IT platform based business through the acquisition of the Apple platform experts, Macprofessionals Inc . (Macprofessionals). Based in Farmington Hills, Michigan, the team will become a key strategic entity of All Covered , the IT Services division of Konica Minolta. “As part of our strategy...
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Sharp chief Tai to stay on 2 more years
OSAKA -- Sharp President Tai Jeng-wu will remain at the helm until 2020, aiming to guide the electronics company to ambitious earnings goals despite challenges ahead. Citing a "strong sense of duty," Tai told workers in a message on Friday that he would stay through the year ending March 2020 and work on grooming a successor to take over after the current medium-term plan ends. When Taiwan's Hon Hai Precision Industry , or Foxconn, sent Tai to run newly acquired Sharp in August 2016, he made...
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Toshiba Eyes Cancelling Chip Unit Sale if No China Approval by May
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Toshiba Corp has decided it will cancel the planned $18.6 billion sale of its memory chip unit if it does not get approval from China's anti-monopoly regulator by May, the Mainichi newspaper said on Sunday. A consortium led by U.S. private equity firm Bain Capital last year won a long and highly contentious battle for the unit, which Toshiba put up for sale after billions of dollars in cost overruns at its Westinghouse nuclear unit plunged it into crisis. But...
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Toshiba said to be nearing resolution in Western Digital dispute
SAN FRANCISCO – Toshiba Corp. and Western Digital Corp. are close to settling their legal dispute under an agreement that the U.S. company will drop efforts to block Toshiba’s $18 billion sale of its flash-memory business in exchange for the extension of their joint venture agreements, according to people familiar with the matter. Western Digital plans to end arbitration claims in the U.S. to stop Toshiba from selling the chip business to a consortium led by Bain Capital as part of the...
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Toshiba completes $18 billion sale of chip unit to Bain consortium
The completion of the deal, initially aimed for by end-March, had been delayed due to a prolonged review by Chinese antitrust authorities. China approved the deal last month. The Bain consortium last year won a long and highly contentious battle for Toshiba Memory, the world’s No. 2 producer of NAND chips. Toshiba put the business up for sale after billions of dollars in cost overruns at its Westinghouse nuclear unit had plunged it into crisis. read the rest here
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Apple Air Print Issue
Has anyone else seen this? Printing to a Ricoh 04 series device. I bring up the image on an ipad ( I also test my iPhone ), I go to the print center bar and then select air print. Air print then shows a preview of the photo or screen capture. The image is printed and one side of the image is cropped or not there. Could not figure out what was going on. After many prints, and not luck I gave it one more shot. For some reason I hesitated the press the print icon. I then saw the image change on...
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Toshiba: the troubles chipping away at its core
Leo Lewis and Kana Inagaki in Tokyo yesterday Earlier this month, after nearly three straight years of nasty surprises, one of Japan’s top analysts on Toshiba asked the company to explain a basic issue about the planned sale of its key asset, but received a blunt response. “We do not proactively disclose that information,” he was told. The company, a 143-year-old conglomerate at the heart of Japan’s supposedly reforming industrial economy, had apparently learnt nothing from a crisis that was...
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Re: Toshiba searches for a new 'spine'
Interesting about IOT and the manufacturing process, gonna have to re read this one.
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Re: Toshiba searches for a new 'spine'
Toshiba announced this week, breakthrough electric vehicle battery technology that will enable a compact car to travel 320 km (190 miles) on a six minute recharge. Available in 2019. Toshiba SCiB batteries are currently in Honda Fit EV and Mitsubishi MiEV cars. I was in a Ford car dealership this week and told them this. Their response was "this is what we have been waiting for!" http://newatlas.com/toshiba-sc...-a6404ae594-89974986
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Re: Toshiba searches for a new 'spine'
Toshiba sold 49.8% of its flash memory business to Bain Capital which includes Apple and Dell as partners. Toshiba still controls 50.2% of the shares and future revenues. The lead to this article omitted this key fact.
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Re: China regulators open antitrust probe of Toshiba deal -newspaper
Toshiba Corp . may have settled its differences with joint venture partner Western Digital Corp . , but the company’s nearly $18 billion sale of Toshiba Memory Corp. is not out of the woods yet, with the Nikkei Asian Review newspaper reporting on Friday that Chinese regulators are investigating the deal for potential antitrust concerns. According to the report, the investigation began earlier this month and could push back Toshiba’s hopeful closing date of March. The Toshiba deal sees TMC...
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btw, I have a video that I will post once I get my phone charged LOL
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Re: Can you say Shoshiba, or how about Sharhiba? Sharp & Toshiba to Merge?
Heard of some pretty crazy stuff but this is very interesting...
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Toshiba exits laptop business
In a major development, Toshiba has confirmed that it is exiting the laptop business. The company that started making laptops back in 1985 ruled the laptop market until brands like Asus, Dell, Apple, Lenovo and HP entered the scene. The company was also known for its ‘Satellite’ range of laptops that were aimed for heavy use. With the entry of thin, light and powerful laptops by HP, Dell and Apple, along with the contracting PC market, Toshiba was not able to make a mark and cope up with...
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Canon adds features to uniFLOW solution
Canon adds features to uniFLOW solution New uniFLOW Online Print & Scan app allows mobile printing from Apple OS and Android OS mobile devices - Support for Mac, Chromebook and Microsoft Universal Print - New budgeting feature allows schools and libraries to charge students for prints and copies - Users can delegate print jobs to another colleague
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Ntiva and Southfield Capital Announce the Strategic Acquisitions of Forget Computers and Netlink ...
GREENWICH, Conn. , Dec. 21, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Southfield Capital, a premier lower middle market private equity firm, announced today that Ntiva, Inc., ("Ntiva" or the "Company") a leading provider of managed IT, cloud hosting, cyber security, unified communications and strategic IT consulting services, has completed the acquisitions of Forget Computers and Netlink Systems. The transactions represent Ntiva's ninth and tenth acquisitions in the U.S., reinforcing the Company's continued...
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Cybersecurity Update
HIPAA & Cybersecurity Updates - In an internal memo, the US Department of Justice outlined the creation of a new initiative to "pursue and disrupt" ransomware operations. include the takedown of command-and-control (C2) servers used to manage ransomware campaigns legal seizure of "ill-gotten gains" generated by such schemes. The American College of Emergency Physicians, headquartered in Irving, TX notified an unknown number of patients that their PHI may have been exposed after...
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Fujifilm launches new A4 color lasers
Fujifilm launches new A4 color lasers (unknown when Fujifilm will launch products in the U.S.) - Offering the Apeos C325 color laser A4 MFP and the print-only version, the ApeosPrint C325dw - Top speed of 31ppm - 4 tandem OPC drum design - White plastic exterior with dark grey accents - Aimed at the remote workforce market - “z” version includes fax board - 2.8” color LCD touchscreen on MFP models - 2 line LCD on print only model - Document feeder holds up to 50 originals o Top scan speed of...
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Workers returning to office & A4 growth
Workers returning to office & A4 growth Goldman Sachs announced that most of its 40,000 employees will be returning to the office by mid to late June, prompting speculation that other banks will follow suit - Amazon employees will be returning starting July 1st - Apple announced that its employees will also be returning to the office soon - Facebook announced that its voluntary work-from-home program will end on 7/1/2021 - Target is requesting employees come back sometime in the fall. -...
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Foxconn reports Sharp division earnings
Foxconn reports Sharp division earnings Nikkei News published article on Sharp, which is owned by Foxconn, aka Hon HaiPrecision of Taiwan FY2020 net profit up 290% to 53.2 billion yen ($487 million) “We will greatly benefit from recovering demand for LCD display panels”; stated president Katsuaki Nomura (much of growth is supplying LCD panels to Apple) Is forecasting that it will ship 50 million units for Apple iPhones in 2021
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Three Pandemic Technology Shifts that Signal the Future of Work
GREENWOOD VILLAGE, CO / ACCESSWIRE / June 2, 2021 / The shift to remote working requires the use of digital records to be productive and efficient. Yet, converting paper-based files to electronic ones has been challenging for many organizations, especially for those that did not begin the process before the pandemic. Many organizations put stopgap measures in place when the pandemic first shut down offices. But as the reality of the "new work normal" has settled in, businesses need proven,...
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China Cuts Power to Meet Energy Goals, Forcing Some Factories to Shut Down
Well just another something we should watch since China is now closing manufacturing plants energy shutdowns. China has cut power to meet official energy goals, forcing some factories to shut down, delaying the production of smartphones and other goods. Consumers may be facing shortages of smartphones as the Christmas season approaches due to the delays. A supplier of components for Apple Inc.'s iPhones was ordered by local authorities to shut down production at a factory near Shanghai.
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Update on closed Foxconn plant
Update on closed Foxconn plant Foxconn, aka Hon Hai Precision, is parent company of Sharp Reuters New Service is reporting that on the night of December 18, 2021, hundreds of workers of the Foxconn plant blocked the highway at Sriperumbudur, India, after over 200 workers at the factory fell ill and 159 people were admitted to the district hospital Supposedly violations included: 15 women in a dorm room meant for 5 A limit on the use of water, exceeding which the use of restrooms was banned...
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Foxconn struggles to bring workers back
Foxconn struggles to bring workers back - (Foxconn, aka Hon Hai Precision of Taiwan, is owner of Sharp) - Is offering former workers extra cash to return to production line in a plant in Zhengshou, China - Plant assembles iPhones for Apple and has been impacted by shutdowns due to COVID-19 - Also offering reward for new recruit referrals - Factory at full staff would have 250,000 workers
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Apple orders employees back to office
Apple orders employees back to office orders staff to return to the office once a week from 4/11/2022 have to be back at least three days a week by May 23 has delayed its plans multiple times amid employee backlash
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Sharp to launch new A3 MFPs
Sharp to launch new A3 MFPs Will be called the “Advanced Series” Model numbers will feature “S” suffix Will replace existing configurations in lineup Due to computer chip supply issues, WiFi will now be an option, rather than standard Color A3 laser models will be MX-3071S, 3571S, 4071S, 5071S & 6071S 30ppm-60ppm B/w A3 laser models will be MX-M3071S, 3571S, 4071S, 5071S & 6071S 30ppm-60ppm Will have version 5.5 of Sharp’s OSA platform for embedded apps Dual scan document feeder...
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Toshiba to be acquired by Bain?
Toshiba to be acquired by Bain? Effisimo Capital, which is Toshiba’s largest shareholder, announced it will agree to sell its stake to Bain Capital, if the U.S. private equity firm launches an offer to buy entire company, according to Reuters News Service “This basically means it is going to kick off a competitive auction process” Toshiba’s current market capitalization is around $16 billion