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Fallen Tech Star Imagination Technologies Up For Sale After Apple Row Bites (standard.co.uk)

Posted by msmash on from the silver-lightning dept.

UK chip designer Imagination Technologies -- which is in dispute with Apple, its largest customer -- has put itself up for sale. Shares in the company more than halved in April when Imagination said that Apple was to stop using its technology. From a report: The firm was regarded as a leading light in Britain's burgeoning tech sector, but ran into trouble when the phones giant, by far its biggest customer, said it would no longer rely on it for graphics design. Apple accounts for more than half of Imagination's revenues and last year held takeover talks with Imagination. Two parts of the business, MIPS and Ensigma, were already up for sale. Imagination said it has received "interest from a number of parties for a potential acquisition of the whole group." It is in "preliminary discussions" with the aid of bankers from Rothschild.

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  1. WHY DO PEOPLE PUT MILK ON THEIR CEREAL?! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I don't know, I closed slashdot as soon as the fucking ad asked me at top volume!

  2. Almost sounds like... by sl3xd · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It almost sounds like Apple decided that Imagination couldn't continue on its own for long, tried to buy it, the offer was refused, so Apple decided to leave them to their fate and moved on...

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  3. Dear Slashdot Your Headlines Suck by sootman · · Score: 3, Insightful

    please fix, kthxbye.

    Fun fact: you are NOT a printed newspaper, where every inch is precious. You can use things like pronouns, articles, the word "is", etc. (Oh look, sometimes you do -- the very next post is "Stephen Hawking Says He Is Convinced That Humans Need To Leave Earth".)

    Also, try to avoid slang. I'm not sure what is meant by "Apple Row Bites". I *think* it means they were hurt (bitten) by a fight (row) with Apple?

    OK, now I see that you simply copied the headline from the source -- But You Capitalized Every Word And Made It Worse. Can you see how much easier this is to read? "Fallen tech star Imagination Technologies up for sale after Apple row bites" It's arguable if you should use title case or not, but it's DEFINITELY wrong to capitalize every word. When I first read the headline, I thought it meant that technologies belonging to Tech Star Imagination were up for sale.

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