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• Video watermarking firm Civolution buys rival

  Strategy Eye - 2009-07-21

  Philips-owned video watermarking firm Civolution has paid an undisclosed sum for Thomson's STS watermarking business, in an operation backed by Prime Technology Ventures. Thomson will combine its technology with Civolution's and become a shareholder in the company. Civolution was formed as a spinoff from Philips and merged with Philips-owned...

  Tags: Video, Thomson Corp., Philips Electronics N.V., Corporate Communications, Marketing, Civolution, Editorial

• Late News.

  - 2006-04-24

  Hershey to trim 25% of portfolio [hershey, pa.] Hershey Co. plans to cut its product portfolio by as much as 25% over the next year, shifting away from an extensive limited-edition strategy retailers have wearied of. During the company's first-quarter earnings call last week,...

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• Philips: sharpening its competitive edge.(Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.'s Andrea Ragnetti focuses on product design and marketing)

  - 2006-03-06

  Royal Philips Electronics of the Netherlands has an 80-year history of attention to product design. But new CMO Andrea Ragnetti and Stefano Marzano, head of Philips Design, Philips' autonomous creative division, have gotten together to help make desi Royal Philips Electronics of the Netherlands has an...

  Tags: marketing, Philips Electronics N.V., product design

• COMMUNICATIONS ISSUES

  - 2006-01-24

  Statement of Thomas B. Patton Corporate Vice President of Government Relations, Philips Electronics North America Corporation Committee on Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation January 24, 2006 Philips supports congressional ratification of the FCC`s November 4, 2003 Video Broadcast Flag rules as well as its August 4, 2004 Order approving thirteen...

  Tags: commission, FCC, Government, innovation, IP, MARKETING, Philips Electronics N.V., technology, video

• Philips targets $20 mobile phone for Chinese market

  - 2005-11-11

  THE HAGUE AFP — Dutch electronics giant Philips plans to launch a low-cost mobile phone in China priced at less than 20 dollars (17 euros) between now and 2008, the company said in a statement on Friday. Philips has invested in a research and development centre in Shanghai, China,...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, China, MARKETING, mobile, Philips Electronics N.V., phone

• Scientific Generics Steps onto the Platform with Global Leaders in Product Design

  - 2005-05-18

  BALTIMORE -- This week (May 19th & 20th) Paul Fearis of Scientific Generics Inc., Baltimore, MD, will be speaking at the Global Design Summit 2005 'Creating Product Innovation Through Customer Knowledge'. Fearis shares the platform with fifteen other global leaders in product design including Orange UK, IKEA Sweden, Virgin Atlantic,...

  Tags: adidas AG, Baltimore, director, IKEA, leader, Leadership, MARKETING, Orange PCS, Philips Electronics N.V., Strategy, Virgin Atlantic

• At home in the country: there is a quietly run government program operated through the U.S. Department of Agriculture that is successfully putting people in homes throughout rural America. The unique part is the hands-on servicing that keeps them in their

  - 2005-04-01

  THE TWO WORDS "GOVERNMENT bureaucracy" constitute one of those self-defining phrases common to almost anyone, anywhere in the world. Basically, it means don't even bother--because you will get no help here. So evocative is the phrase, that just recalling instances of mind-numbing intransigence suffered at the hands of obstructionist...

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• CableLabs stamps 'copy once' technology.(Up front: latest news and insight)(Brief Article)

  - 2005-01-01

  CableLabs has approved a digital recording technology developed by Philips and Hewlett-Packard for use in "Digital Cable Ready" products. Based on FCC guidelines for the so-called "broadcast flag," The Video Content Protection System VCPS enables content delivered over cable to be marked...

  Tags: Cable, FCC, Government, MARKETING, NETWORKING, Philips Electronics N.V., TELECOMMUNICATIONS, video

• SENSOR BUSINESS, MARKETING, AND TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENTS: PHILIPS DRIVES OPPORTUNITIES FOR AMR SENSORS.(Philips Semiconductors (Eindhoven, Netherlands))(Anisotropic magnetoresistive)

  - 2004-08-01

  Anisotropic magnetoresistive AMR sensors, which use thin-film permalloy (nickel-iron) resistors whose resistance changes in the presence of an external magnetic field, offer key benefits for speed and position/angle measurement applications. In contrast to the typical variable reluctance VR sensor, the AMR sensor is...

  Tags: AMR Research, GMR, marketing, Philips Electronics N.V., Philips Semiconductor, sensor

• Cnet Networks buys EDventure Holdings

  - 2004-03-20

  Cnet Networks Inc., an owner of Internet sites featuring news and information about computers, said it bought Esther Dyson's EDventure Holdings to gain its PC Forum conference and monthly technology newsletter. Dyson, EDventure's chairman, will become editor-at-large of Cnet's business technology division, the San Francisco-based company said in a statement....

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