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Dien Bien Phu was a serious defeat for the French and was the decisive battle of the Indochina war. [ 95 ] [ 96 ] [ 97 ] The garrison constituted roughly one-tenth of the total French Union manpower in Indochina, [ 98 ] and the defeat seriously weakened the position and prestige of the French; it produced psychological repercussions both in the ...
On September 2, 2013, Microsoft announced its intent to acquire the mobile hardware division of Nokia (which had established a long-term partnership with Microsoft to produce smartphones built off its Windows Phone platform) [19] in a deal worth 3.79 billion euros, along with another 1.65 billion to license Nokia's portfolio of patents.
US stocks ended Friday in the red, closing out a lackluster week despite a year of historic highs. The “Magnificent Seven” group of high-performing tech stocks — Alphabet, Amazon, Apple ...
Tan Le telecommunications entrepreneur, co-founder of Emotiv, Young Australian of the Year 1998; Hoàng Tụy, mathematician; Ngô Bảo Châu, first Vietnamese mathematician to win the Fields Medal; Trinh Xuan Thuan, astrophysicist; Van H. Vu, mathematician; Lê Văn Thiêm, mathematician; Bui Tuong Phong, computer scientist; Minh Quang Tran ...
Jean-Philippe Courtois (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ filip kuʁtwa]; born 1960) [1] is Executive Vice President and President, Microsoft Global Sales, Marketing and Operations. Since 2015, he is also president and co-founder of Live for Good, a French association that aims to help young leaders develop their social or environmental projects.
Another New York law taking effect on Jan. 1 will eliminate patient co-pays for insulin covered by private health insurance plans, which are state-regulated. In New York, more than 1.8 million ...
Microsoft is a multinational computer technology corporation. Microsoft was founded on April 4, 1975, by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in Albuquerque, New Mexico. [1] Its current best-selling products are the Microsoft Windows operating system; Microsoft Office, a suite of productivity software; Xbox, a line of entertainment of games, music, and video; Bing, a line of search engines; and Microsoft ...
Two of baseball's top free agent starters agreed to deals on Tuesday at the Winter Meetings in Dallas.