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Ron Johnson of Apple will become Penney’s chief executive on Nov. 1, when Myron E. Ullman III, the current chief executive, steps down to become executive chairman, the company said Tuesday.

Given that most products can be bought online, retailers have been trying to give shoppers reasons to go to stores — known as “retail theater” or “retailtainment” in the industry. HP Compaq Business Notebook 6710b ac adapter Arguably, no business has done that better than Apple under Mr. Johnson, who turned the boring computer sales floor into a sleek playroom filled with gadgets.

Retail analysts said the expectation was that Mr. Johnson could similarly transform Penney, which like many traditional big mall retailers has been Acer TravelMate 2483WXMi battery struggling since the recession and the huge growth of online shopping.

“If he can take a little bit of that magic and sprinkle it on to J. C. Penney, you could really create the next generation of retailing,” said Deborah Weinswig, a retail analyst with Citigroup. “We’re at a very interesting kind of Casio Exilim Zoom EX-Z70 charger intersection right now where retail needs to be fun, it needs to be exciting.”

Since Mr. Johnson did not seem to be in line for the chief executive job at Apple, the move to J. C. Penney, based in Plano, Tex., gives him a chance HP Compaq Business Notebook 6710b ac adapter to run a company. Still, it was seen as a surprising step at a time when Apple’s retail stores continue to thrive.

“My lifetime dream has been to lead one of the large great retailers, to reimagine what it could be,” said Mr. Johnson, who was vice president for merchandising at Target Stores before joining Apple in 2000.

“In the U.S., the department store has a chance to regain its status as the leader in style, the leader in excitement,” he said in an SONY NP-BG1 charger interview. “It will be a period of true innovation for this company.”

Investors cheered the hire, with Penney shares rising 17 percent, to close at $35.37.

Yet the job ahead will be very different from Mr. Johnson’s role at Apple, which already had a cult following when he joined it. And Apple’s imprint Olympus CAMEDIA C-765 ULTRA ZOOM battery got bigger and bigger with a its rat-a-tat hits, from the iPod to the iPhone to the iPad.

“Apple sells best-in-class product and faces basically little to no competition,” said Michelle Clark, an analyst with Morgan Stanley. “J. C. Penney, on the other hand, operates in an intensely competitive industry and sells merchandise that is undifferentiated versus peers and in fact has been JVC BN-VF733 battery lagging peers.”

J. C. Penney’s sales in 2010 were $17.76 billion, up 1.2 percent from the prior year, but still more than 10 percent below 2007 sales.

J. C. Penney had first contacted Mr. Johnson three or four years ago, Mr. Ullman said.

This time, the wooing of Mr. Johnson started with two activist investors. In November, Pershing Square Capital Management and Vornado Realty Trust bought 26.4 percent of Dell Inspiron 510m ac adapter J. C. Penney stock. In January, William A. Ackman from Pershing and Steven Roth from Vornado joined the Penney board, and as part of that arrangement, got to appoint an additional director. While Mr. Johnson was intrigued by the possibility, he did not want to become just a board member, and asked for the chief executive position, according to people briefed on the matter who were not authorized to speak publicly.

“Ron Johnson is the Steve Jobs of the retail industry,” Mr. Ackman said in an interview.

Still, Penney seems to have limited Mr. Johnson’s role. He will have the marketing, product and merchandising functions reporting to him. But all other major departments, including finance, stores, JCPenney.com, corporate communications and legal IBM THINKPAD R50E battery will continue to report to Mr. Ullman.

“His role is more like that of a chief merchant than it is of a C.E.O.,” said Ms. Clark of Morgan Stanley.

To make up for Mr. Johnson’s stock options at Apple, he will receive restricted Penney stock worth $50 million as of Monday’s close. With the jump in stock price, it was worth more than $58 million by the close on Tuesday.

He is also investing $50 million of his own money in J. C. Penney by buying warrants on the company’s stock. In 2017, the warrants will give him Sony DCR-HC14E charger the right to buy more than seven million shares at $29.92 a share, meaning that if he can raise the stock price he stands to make a hefty profit.

Mr. Johnson’s annual salary will be $1.5 million, and he will be eligible for a bonus of 125 percent of that amount if he meets certain targets. Still, “this guy has become enormously wealthy on Apple stock options,” said Charles Wolf, an analyst with Needham and Company. “He certainly doesn’t need the money.”

During his tenure at Apple, Mr. Johnson received total compensation valued at $141 million, according to Equilar, an executive compensation Dell inspiron 5160 battery research firm. The analysis excludes the years 2008 and 2009, during which Mr. Johnson realized additional stock gains valued at more than $100 million, Equilar said.

Mr. Johnson did not specify what his plans were for Penney.

“I don’t have a priority list,” he said. “I have so many ideas in my head that I can’t quite sort them out, to tell you the truth.”

As for his experience, he said: “Apple has taught me, really, what breakthrough innovation is and how to energize teams to accomplish that ACER Aspire One 10.1 ac adapter. I’ve seen that happen on the product side at Apple; we’ve done that in our stores. I think that’s what I bring.”

While Mr. Ullman, who has been chief executive for seven years, has been praised for bringing in brands like Liz Claiborne, MNG by Mango and Sephora into Penney’s stores, his tenure has been marked by the recession, when the company’s middle-class shoppers cut way back on spending.

Michael J. de la Merced contributed reporting.

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Apple Announces the PC Death Knell

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If Steven P. Jobs, Apple’s chief executive, gets his way, the PC could be on its last legs.

For over two years now, Mr. Jobs and other Apple executives have been pushing the concept of a “post-PC era” where most people no longer have, or need, traditional computers Acer TravelMate 5620 Series battery and instead engage with the digital world though iPhones, iPods and iPads.

Although the company has been discussing this concept for some time, it has not offered Olympus Li-42B charger a solution to ditch the PC and go completely mobile. Apple iOS mobile device still needed a PC to transfer or back up music, photos, videos and other files.

Until now, that is.

On Monday, during a presentation in San Francisco CANON Digital IXUS 55 battery to showcase its new software and services, Apple finally began giving people the option to bypass a PC altogether.

“We are going to demote the PC to just be a device. We are going to move the digital hub, the center of your digital life, into the cloud,” CANON Digital IXUS 90 IS battery Mr. Jobs said.

Once these new services begin later this fall, people who buy an iOS device can fully get by without a computer. They will no longer need to plug an HP Pavilion dv9500 ac adapter iOS device into a PC to activate it; iCloud will automatically sync and backup people’s photos, music and documents. All software will be updated over the Internet.

With Monday’s announcement’s, Apple Acer TravelMate 2413LCi battery is reiterating the irrelevance of the personal computer that Mr. Jobs helped invent 30 years ago.

But where is the PC going to go? There has obviously been some argument about Apple’s computerless society theory, with many saying the NIKON COOLPIX 885 battery traditional computer isn’t going the way of the dodo, but instead will become a secondary device to mobile gadgetry.

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Scott Forstall, the senior vice HP Pavilion DV8000 battery president of iOS software, summed up the company’s belief during the conference saying that “We are living in a post PC world.” Mr. Forstall noted that a number of iPad owners don’t even have a PC Acer Aspire 3000 ac adapter in their home. ”Now, if you want to cut the cord, you can,” he said.

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Groupon's I.P.O. Plans Valuate for $30 Billion

As Groupon would say, the deal is on.

The social buying site on Thursday filed to go public, a hotly anticipated debut that could raise $3 billion, according to two people close to the company who were not authorized to speak publicly. At that level, the company would be worth roughly $30 billion, surpassing the value of Google at its initial public offering.

Groupon is part of an elite club of social Internet companies that is fanning investor ardor for the next generation of technology Dell XPS M1730 battery giants. The gaming company Zynga is preparing to file for an offering that could value it at more than $10 billion, according to two people with knowledge of the matter who were not authorized to speak publicly.

Facebook, which recently raised $1.5 billion in a financing led by Goldman Sachs, is expected to file by next year. It’s the giant of the group, valued Dell xps m1530 battery at as much as $80 billion.

On Thursday, the online music service Pandora moved one step closer to the public markets by setting its I.P.O. price range at $7 to $9, according to its latest filing. Pandora plans to raise as much as $141.6 million in its offering, at a $1.4 billion HP Pavilion dv9000 battery valuation.

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“I think its all about pent-up demand,” Bing Gordon, a venture capitalist and a director of Zynga, said. “Markets are often good predictors, and I do think social JVC GZ-MG20 charger is just getting started.”

The first wave of new technology stocks has already sparked a frenzy, prompting worry that this boom could be a bubble. Shares of LinkedIn, a company that has struggled to maintain sony vgp-bps9 battery profitability, more than doubled on its first day of trading in May. At Thursday’s closing price of $78.63, it was still trading around 75 percent above its offering price.

LinkedIn’s stunning debut has KODAK EASYSHARE Z1085 IS battery pushed Silicon Valley and Wall Street bankers to revise expectations higher on all types of technology offerings. According to one person close to Groupon, the company and its bankers have struggled to pinpoint the final valuation for the I.P.O. The person cautioned that it could move Sony CCD-TRV608 battery higher or lower based on market conditions.

“I would urge any investor to think about the fundamentals,” said Sucharita Mulpuru, a Forrester OLYMPUS LI-50B battery Research retail analyst. “Sure Groupon could be the next Amazon, but as an investor do you have the patience to wait them out?”

Groupon, based in Chicago, has enjoyed a meteoric rise SONY Cyber-Shot DSC-w320 battery in its short life.

Shortly after its founding, Groupon notched revenue of $94 million in 2008. Two years later, it swelled to $713 million. The company — which now employs more than 7,000 people and has 83 million subscribers across 43 countries — reported HP Pavilion dv2000 battery $644.7 million of revenue in the first quarter of 2011 alone.

As its prospects have grown, so has investor interest. In 2010, the company was worth roughly $1.4 billion, based on a fund-raising round led by the Russian firm D.S.T. Global. Groupon spurned a $6 billion takeover bid from Google in December Sony NP-F970 battery, opting instead to raise nearly $1 billion from Fidelity Investments, T. Rowe Price and other investors.

At a $30 billion market value, Groupon would top that of Google at its market debut. Google raised $1.67 billion in August 2004, putting its value at $27 billion. (In its filing, Groupon put its I.P.O. value at $750 million, a nominal amount used HP Compaq Business Notebook 6715b ac adapter to calculate the registration fee.)

In a letter to prospective shareholders,Dell Inspiron 1501 AC adapter Groupon’s chief executive, Andrew D. Mason, highlighted the company’s growth opportunities but cautioned investors to temper their profit expectations.

“In the past, we’ve made investments in growth that turned a healthy forecasted quarterly profit into a sizable loss,” he said. “When we see opportunities to invest in long-term growth, expect that we will pursue Acer Aspire 3610 battery them regardless of certain short-term consequences.”

Like many start-ups, Groupon is still struggling to turn a profit. Last year, the company’s loss topped $450 million, compared with $6.9 million in 2009 and $2.2 million in 2008. The company’s biggest expense is marketing. Groupon spent $263.2 million on advertising and subscriber e-mails in 2010, compared to just $4.5 million the year before.

“We cannot be certain that we will be able to attain or increase profitability on a quarterly or annual basis,” the company said in its filing.

With less-than-ideal financials under generally accepted accounting principles, Groupon is trumpeting a nonstandard metric that Canon ZR25 battery excludes marketing and acquisition costs. On that basis, it reported $60.6 million in operating income last year and $81.6 million in the first quarter this year.

To some, the use of such nonstandard measures harkens back to the days of the technology boom in the late 1990s, when unusual metrics like “eyeballs” were touted instead of numbers like net income. Those specialized figures were often used to present a rosier picture of a company’s financials, obscuring their profitability.

Groupon argues that its massive marketing budget is both necessary now and will dwindle over time. Locked in a race for subscribers around the world, the company is willing to spend a tremendous amount of money in the short-term to secure a dominant market share. It says it will cost less to maintain those subscribers over time.

As an example, Groupon said in its filing that it spent $18 million to add about 3.7 million subscribers in the second quarter last year. By March 31 of this year, those customers generated $145.3 million in revenue and $61.7 million in gross profit.

Groupon’s investors and early employees stand to reap a windfall in an I.P.O.

The company’s largest shareholder, its co-founder and board member Eric P. Lefkofsky, owns 64.1 million shares, or roughly 21.6 percent of the company’s Class A common stock — a stake that would be worth billions of dollars. The venture capital firm, Accel Partners, which invested in Groupon in November 2009, owns a 5.6 percent stake. Mr. Mason, who made $184,599 last year, controls 7.7 percent of company’s Class A shares.

While Class A shares will be sold in the I.P.O., Mr. Mason, Mr. Lefkofsky and Bradley Keywell, a co-founder and director will hold onto all of Groupon’s Class B shares. The dual-class stock structure, already in place at Facebook and Google, allows founders to effectively maintain control of their companies while still trading in the public markets.

The rush to go public, at increasingly higher valuations, has fanned concerns that the market is, once again, starting to feel bubbly.

Groupon, which will trade under the ticker “GRPN,” has hired Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs and Credit Suisse as underwriters for the offering.

Claire Cain Miller and Ben Protess contributed reporting.

'e-G8' forum focus in drawing up Internet rules in Paris

France wants better regulation of the Internet. Google's executive chairman says policymakers should tread lightly and avoid "stupid" rules.

Bridging such differences about how the Internet could or should be more regulated took center stage Tuesday at an "e-G8" meeting aimed to parlay the digital world's growing economic clout into a cohesive message for world leaders at the Group of Eight summit later this week in Normandy.

The two-day Paris gathering has brought together Internet and media world gurus such as Google Inc. executive chairman 96WH sony vgp-bps9 battery Eric Schmidt, News Corp. Chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch and Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg. And the discussion includes issues such as protecting children from "evil stuff" on line, preventing illegal downloading of copyrighted materials and shielding Facebook users from unsolicited invitations.

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The e-G8 comes amid concerns in the industry that some countries — including several in Europe such as France dell latitude d830 battery — have taken measures or enacted laws that could curb Internet freedoms.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy, kicking off the conference, said governments need to lay down and enforce rules in the digital world — even as they need to foster olympus c-3030 battery pack creativity and economic growth with the Internet.

It's unclear whether he'll win over digital executives with this argument, or whether the G-8 summit — which doesn't include countries such as China, a major source of online activity and online regulation — will agree on a single Sony DCR-HC47E charger policy going forward.

Sarkozy said he faced mistrust over his push for the "e-G8" when Japan's earthquake, fiscal troubles in Europe, and the Arab world revolutions are likely to dominate the G-8 summit in Deauville on Thursday and Friday NIKON CoolPix P7000 Battery. Conflicting visions about the Internet — notably about how regulated it should be — has pitted companies such as Amazon.com and Google against governments about how to protect privacy and copyrights online.

"We need to hear your aspirations, your needs," Sarkozy told hundreds of business executives, creative minds and journalists at Tuileries Gardens in Paris. "You need to hear our limits, our red lines."

Policymakers such as Sarkozy say the blistering pace of growth has often left regulators behind. He said a "balance" needed to be struck OLYMPUS PS-BLM1 battery to prevent misuse of the Internet — such as to protect children online — while boosting its potential as a driver for economic growth.

While praising the executives, he said regulatory curbs are needed.

"Don't let the revolution that you've begun threaten everyone's basic right to a private life and full autonomy," said Sarkozy. "Full transparency ... sooner or later runs HP Pavilion zv5325CA battery into the very principle of individual freedom."

Google's Schmidt said technological changes have led to a "shift in power" toward individuals — whether to illegally release secret documents or transfer copyrighted material, or rally against their repressive regimes.

"My own opinion is that most governments hp pavilion dv5000 adapter are having trouble with that shift in power," he said. "So rather than sort of complaining about it, which is what everybody does, why don't we see if we can harness it?"

During an e-G8 panel talk, Schmidt said: "You want to tread lightly on regulating brand new, innovative industries. ... Clearly you need Dell studio 1535 battery some level of regulation for the evil stuff. But I would be careful about overregulating the Internet.

"I cannot imagine any delegate in this conference (who) would want Internet growth to be significantly slowed by a government that slows dell studio 1737 battery it down because of some stupid rule that they put in place," he said.

Last week, the U.N.'s independent expert on freedom of speech said governments that curtail users' access to the Internet are violating a basic human right — regardless of the justification.

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Privacy concerns have also raised hackles in Europe.

In January, Facebook and German officials reached a deal over unsolicited invitations sent to nonmembers of the social networking site Dell studio 1537 battery through its "Friend Finder" feature — which allows Facebook to send email invitations to potential users through current members' address books.

The feature came under fire in Germany for violating privacy laws by allowing unauthorized access to information of third parties. The agreement allows Facebook members more control over the email addresses they share.

Johannes Caspar, a data protection official in Hamburg who negotiated the deal for the Germans, said American laws under which Facebook operates tend to be more laissez-faire than those of Europe about privacy issues.

He said Facebook has cooperated sony vgp-bps13 battery with German investigations about possible privacy law violations, and the onus now is on Europe "to make things clearer" about the rules companies face on the continent.

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Sylvie Corbet in Paris contributed to this report.

Android security Flaw rolls out

A significant security hole has been discovered in Google's Android operating system for smartphones, which can allow attackers to gain access to users' personal information without their permission.

The newest versions of Android, including the new wave of tablets running its Honeycomb software, are not affected by the bug, according to the researchers at Ulm University who initially reported the issue.

Google on Wednesday began fixing a security Canon BP-512 charger flaw that affects some 97% of Android smartphones.

The flaw, which was discovered by three research assistants at Ulm University in the southern part of Germany, affects approximately 97% of Android users.

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In a recent blog post, the researchers found that users of Android devices running versions 2.3.3 and below could be susceptible to attack when they are connected to unencrypted Wi-Fi networks. Anyone else on that SAMSUNG SB-L110 battery network could gain access to, modify or delete Android users' calendars, photos and contacts.

"It is quite easy," the researchers wrote in a blog post. "The implications of this vulnerability reach from disclosure to loss of personal information."

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Only about 3% of Android users have the latest versions of the operating system, but Google said Android users running older versions will get a fix "in the next few days." Users don't need to take any action, and the patch will roll out globally.The security flaw stems from Google making use of unencrypted login protocol for the affected services. By using HTTP, rather than the more secure HTTPS, "an adversary can easily sniff the [login information]," according to the blog post Dell Inspiron 9400 ac adapter .

The kind of attack that can be performed on Android devices over unencrypted Wi-Fi networks is similar to so-called "Sidejacking" attacks on Facebook or Twitter. For instance, Firesheep, a free Firefox extension that collects data broadcast over an unprotected Wi-Fi network, allows users to gain access to other people's Facebook accounts.

Though the researchers found that any unsecured application Sony np-bn1 battery making use of an Android user's photos, contacts or calendars could be compromised, the data an attacker can gain access to is limited to those three groups. The security bug does not, for example, allow intruders to view a user's e-mails.

Google was able to fix the problem on its end by requiring an HTTPS connection for calendar and contacts synchronization. By solving the problem on its own servers, Google was able to get around a notoriously slow Android update process: after Google updates the code, manufacturing partners and carriers then manipulate NIKON Coolpix P80 charger the code for each device.

As a result, the vast majority of Android users are still running "Froyo," which launched in May 2010. A quarter of users are still on "Eclair," which came out all the way back in January of last year.

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In addition to switching to HTTPS, the researchers also suggested Google prevent Android devices from automatically remembering and logging onto unencrypted Wi-Fi networks. Google did not say whether it had taken any of those steps.

The fix, which addresses a hole allowing hackers to access the contacts, calendars and photos on an Android phone connected to an open Wi-Fi network Dell Studio 1537 battery, will take a few days to cover every phone, a Google spokesman said.

Unlike a traditional software update, the problem exists on Google's servers, so Android users won't need to manually take action.

Android software that has a feature for synchronizing photos to Google's Picasa Web Albums service is also vulnerable. Google does not yet have a solution for that HP Pavilion dv9500 Series battery, but a spokesman said the company is investigating the matter.

The server fix involves switching its login systems to a more secure protocol. Use of the less secure method is a common practice on the Web, as CNN reported in November.

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A team of researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is working on lithium-air batteries that could help in generating more powerful, lightweight batteries than available currently. Yang Shao-Horn is an MIT associate professor of mechanical engineering. According to him many research groups are trying to improve on lithium-air batteries. But they have difference of opinions about the types of electrode materials Pavilion dv5 Adapter to be used. It has to be noted that electrode materials are responsible for electrochemical reactions happening inside these batteries.

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Yang, along with some of the students and visiting professor Hubert Gasteiger are catching up with those electrodes that have gold and platinum working as catalysts. Gold or platinum electrodes exhibit a higher level of activity dell studio 1537 battery that naturally leads to higher efficiency. This work may open wider avenues for experimenting with other metals or metallic oxides that are cheaper than gold and platinum.

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