EMEA Thin Client Market Struggled for Growth in Second Quarter of 2013

Thin client shipments in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) in Q213 increased marginally by 0.1% year-on-year to 407,417 units, according to results published by International Data Corporation (IDC) in its EMEA Quarterly Enterprise Client Device Tracker. After the weak first quarter of 2013, the thin client market struggled with a contraction in demand across the EMEA region. Although Western Europe (WE) showed a moderate one-digit growth in Q213, the region as a whole barely broke even

EMEA External Disk Storage Systems Market Remained Flat in 2Q13, Says IDC

EMEA External Disk Storage Systems Market Remained Flat in 2Q13, Says IDC

The external disk storage systems market value in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) remained almost flat in 2Q13, growing by 0.5% year on year to $1.77 billion, according to the latest EMEA Quarterly Disk Storage Systems Tracker from International Data Corporation (IDC). The tracker also shows, however, that capacity jumped 28.3% to 1.7 exabytes. In euro terms, revenue reached ?1.36 billion, a decrease of 1.2%.
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NXP Semiconductors N.V. – Selling Shareholders Price Secondary Offering of Common Stock

NXP Semiconductors N.V. – Selling Shareholders Price Secondary Offering of Common Stock

EINDHOVEN, THE NETHERLANDS — (Marketwired) — 09/13/13 — NXP Semiconductors N.V. ("NXP") (NASDAQ: NXPI) announced today the pricing of the previously announced secondary offering of 25,000,000 shares of its common stock to be sold by certain of its principal stockholders, including affiliates of funds managed or advised by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. L.P., AlpInvest Partners B.V., Apax Partners LLP, Bain Capital Partners, LLC and Silver Lake Technology Management, L.L.C., purs