The combination would accelerate Seagate's growth strategy in the expanding consumer storage market, particularly in Europe and Japan, and add strong engineering and software development capabilities, as well as relationships with several key retailers.

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In his new role, Pagano will lead all of ESPN's core technical functions and operations including distribution, transmission, engineering, IT, software development, technology innovation and strategic technology forecasting across all areas of the company.

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YoYo Games currently has 25 employees but is planning to create an additional 25 new positions, mainly in systems development, software engineering, sales and customer service.

BBC: DundeeOne

This new usage model is designed for customers running 3D workloads in the engineering, medical, media and entertainment, scientific, software development and economic and finance market segments looking to support additional users on a single workstation.

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Infosys Technologies ( INFY - news - people ) (35, INFY) delivers data processing services like software development, systems integration, product engineering and testing.

FORBES: Quarter-Century Mark

As a result, Linaro's resources and open source solutions will allow device manufacturers to speed up development time, improve performance and reduce engineering time spent on non-differentiating, low-level software.

ENGADGET: ARM, Samsung, IBM, Freescale, TI and more join to form Linaro, speed rollout of Linux-based devices