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Undersea cable investments to grow despite recession

16 new submarine cables projected to come online in 2009

Acer beat Asus in netbooks last year, to ship 12M this year

Acer shipped just over 5 million netbooks last year

SAP first quarter earnings drop 16%

Revenue also fell 3 percent, dragged down by a fall of one-third in software sales

Netbooks shore up Acer results during first quarter

Acer sees a smooth transition to Windows 7 later this year

United Micro to buy Chinese chip maker

UMC will pay US$285 million for the 85 percent of He Jian Technology it doesn't already own

China Mobile to buy stake in Taiwanese operator

China Mobile will pay NT$17.78 billion for a 12 percent stake in Far EasTone

India’s Bharti Airtel posts strong revenue, profit growth

India's largest mobile services company benefits from continued expansion in mobile services market

AOL ad revenue plummets in Q1

Parent company Time Warner seeks alternatives to spin off the troubled Internet unit

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Win 7, Snow Leopard could give graphics chip a spark

Apple's Snow Leopard and Microsoft's Windows 7 could stimulate the demand for PCs and graphics chips.