The key for any company’s success is nabbing key personnel from other companies. Normally the immediate goal is to fish for the employees of a rival company and it looks like Shuttle has done just that. Though unconfirmed, rumor has it that Shuttle is planning to invade the netbook market thanks to their newly formed team mostly coming from rival Elitegroup Computer Systems (ECS).

Shuttle has been known to deliver small form factor desktops but it looks like they are on the verge of expanding. Shuttle has made various experiments to get into the laptop scene but it looks like they lack the manpower to support the development for such. But now, it looks like all that has changed with the said raid of manpower from ECS. ECS of course denied losing any employees or perhaps they have just lost count.

(Source) Slashgear

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The man chiefly responsible for the turnaround of Sony Ericsson, Hidecki “Dick” Komiyama, will be retiring at the end of this year as revealed by the company. He will be succeeded by Bert Nordberg who will move over from Ericsson. Actually, Nordberg will be named co-President by September to allow a smooth transition until Komiyama officially steps down at the end of the year.

But if Komiyama’s performance is to be a gauge, Nordberg may have his work cut out for him. Komiyama has accomplished a lot of things, including that of turning around the company for the past two years. Now, Nordberg inherits a company experiencing losses since the middle of last year and on the verge of laying off some workers which is not a great scenario to begin with.

Many question the departure of Komiyama, especially since it comes at a time where new products are to be launched. But it was Komiyama himself he felt that the timing couldn’t have been better as the need for someone to complete the program transformation may prove to be better. And the person in the hot seat of it all is Nordberg.

(Source) ZDnet

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