China Retakes Supercomputing Crown With a Lot of American Chips

Titan, America’s previous champ, is now No. 2.
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EU Regulators Eye Google Again — This Time It’s Android

More trouble for Google abroad.
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HP Names Heiko Meyer New Enterprise Head in Germany

Tech giant Hewlett-Packard is shaking up management of its enterprise operations in Germany. Last week, the company announced internally that it had named Heiko Meyer as VP of HP’s Enterprise group in that country. He replaces Volker Smid, who had held the post since 2009 and is leaving HP. Meyer, who joined HP in 1984, will report to Peter Ryan, who was named to run HP’s Enterprise business in Europe last year, after a wider reorganization.

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EU to Launch Net Neutrality Strategy

New European rules on net neutrality will oblige Internet service providers to be transparent about connection speed and stop blocking competing services such as Microsoft Corp.’s Skype, European Union technology chief Neelie Kroes said Tuesday.

Box On Track to Book More Than $100 Million in Sales This Year, CEO Levie Says

A cloud executive gets chatty on the buffet line.
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The Global Carrier Perspective: Telefonica and MTS on Balancing Developed and Developing Markets (Video)

Telefonica and MTS talk about what comes after dumb pipes.
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Vodafone to Spend Verizon Dividend on Business

Vodafone Group said Tuesday it will keep the $3.15 billion dividend payment it will receive from Verizon Wireless and plow it into its flagging operations in Europe, which weighed heavily on the mobile giant’s full-year profit.

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Two Views From Samsung About its “Octa” Chip

At the Consumer Electronics Show in January, Samsung described an unusual eight-brained processor as a major step above competing chips. Now that U.S. buyers will be late to get it, the company is playing down the differences.

Here’s What Google Will Look Like in Europe Now

The proposed agreement with the EU covers search labeling and scraping, as expected.
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