All Things Hired: Bonnie Cha Is Our Latest ATD Reviewer

ATD adds another staffer to the team.
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Decide.com Says It Will Accurately Predict Prices or Your Money Back

Decide.com helps eliminate buyer’s remorse by predicting whether the price of products will rise or fall. Now it is confident enough about some of its deals that it’s offering a money-back guarantee.
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The Hottest Trend in E-Commerce? Clothes.

eMarketer is predicting that this year apparel and accessories will beat books, music and videos as the fastest-growing e-commerce category.
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How Japan’s Sharp Lost Its Edge

Sharp Corp.’s domestic liquid-crystal-display factories once made the company a source of pride for Japan’s electronics sector.

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Apple Captured a Fifth of U.S. Consumer Electronics Revenue in Holiday Quarter

By now it’s a truism that Apple’s killing it in the United States consumer electronics industry, but here’s one more piece of data to drive that point home: NPD says Apple captured 19 percent of all sales dollars of consumer electronics in the U.S. in the holiday quarter of 2011. That’s nearly twice the percentage captured by Hewlett-Packard, which ranked second on NPD’s list of the top five CE brands.

Seven Questions for ARM CEO Warren East

In an interview, the British chip design firm’s CEO talks about its unique business model, and some of the more unusual places its chips are showing up.
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Exclusive: Sony Has Quietly Cut 100 U.S. Jobs Over Last Several Weeks

The cuts, made over the last several weeks, have been in the works for months, as part of an effort by U.S. head Phil Molyneux to bring the company closer to consumers.
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Meet the New Sony CEO, Kaz Hirai (Video)

Want to see the new Sony head in action? We’ve got the goods right here from an onstage interview at AsiaD.
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Amazon Sees No Reason to Slow Its Spending

Amazon defended its free-spending habits yesterday in a call with analysts, arguing that it continues to see new opportunities and will invest accordingly.
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There Better Be Some Cool Stuff at CES, Because CE Holiday Sales Data Bytes!

Camcorders and MP3 players go splat!
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