Intel vs. ARM: In the Smartphone Era (Part 5)

By Guest Author Nalini Kumar Muppala It is a tremendous victory to ARM’s business model that the Cambridge, UK-based company (with a market capitalization of $3.2 billion, $550 million in revenue and 1,740 employees) is causing executives at Intel (the semiconductor behemoth with market capitalization of $106 billion, $32.8 billion in revenue, and 83,900 employees) to

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Teaching English to MNC Workforces: GlobalEnglish CEO Deepak Desai (Part 2)

SM: When you left Time Warner, you said you joined a dot-com. What did that entail? DD: I became CFO for a company out of Hong Kong that was in the online advertising business. The idea of the company was to take many of the models that we have in the United States and create

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By Guest Author Nalini Kumar Muppala Licensees ARM licensees comprise big and small IC vendors. They can be broadly classified into two groups: those that build around ARM cores and those that develop their own CPU implementation compliant to ARM instruction set architecture. The former group covers implementation licensees such as TI, Broadcom, and NXP,

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Teaching English to MNC Workforces: GlobalEnglish CEO Deepak Desai (Part 1)

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Intel vs. ARM: In the Smartphone Era (Part 3)

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Helping At-Risk High School Students with Online Solutions: Apex Learning CEO Cheryl Vedoe (Part 7)

SM: If I have understood correctly, the primary presentation of your business occurs on two ends, with gifted students doing Advanced Placement courses on one end and at-risk students on the other end. It also seems that schools will do whatever it takes to help at-risk students to help them pass. CV: Overall, yes. Where

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