Business Development/management
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Insight newsmaker Astute young businessman Ian Lim believes helping video bloggers become stars will also rake in money for a site he's founded.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, Business development/management, TV, micropayment, Video, Singapore, Platform, blogging, revenue
Is your business run by chance?
Insight perspective The discipline you apply to managing your business' underlying processes can make all the difference, especially when times get tough, says analyst.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, Business applications, Business development/management, Business structures, Process, Organization, Supplier, Quocirca, Clive Longbottom, Environment
Ten steps to successful IT
Insight perspective We all want to run successful IT departments but how do we do it? An industry observer offers some advice.
Tags: Business development/management, Business Strategies & Functions, Infrastructure/architecture management, IT training, Web 2.0, Conference, Supplier, performance, vision, industry
Is it time for (a leadership) change at Microsoft?
Insight commentary If Redmond can’t find new ways of thinking, demonstrate initiative and imagination, or show some hunger and verve, then perhaps its current batch of leaders are no longer fit for purpose.
Tags: Business development/management, Leadership, Microsoft Corp., Steve Ballmer, Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Advertisement, bank, shareholder, strategy
Microsoft's Muglia talks Windows Azure
Insight newsmaker Microsoft server and tools boss Bob Muglia, who was recently promoted, shares the "ton" of things to do to ready hosted versions of its server products.
Tags: Microsoft Windows, Leadership, Software engineering/development, Business development/management, Web services, Microsoft Corp., password management, Environment, Server, server software
Oracle's hardware gambit: Not so crazy
Insight commentary Larry Ellison is finally in the hardware business. Maybe the second time's a charm.
Tags: Hardware, Business development/management, Hewlett-Packard Co., Database, data warehouse, software, Oracle Corp., Wintel, Earth, database software
Google Books settlement sets geographic, business limits
News Revised settlement allows the scanning of out-of-print works from only English-speaking countries, restricts future business for Google, and gives copyright holders more rights.
Tags: Business development/management, Regulations, Google Inc., revenue, U.S. Department Of Justice, Australia, Settlement, Alexandria, antitrust, Canada
Private-sale shopping sites are hot
News Saddled with unsold merchandise amid the recession, makers of luxury goods are selling their wares through members-only shopping sites.
Tags: Business plans, Business development/management, E-business, Shopping Site, GSI Commerce Inc., home furnishing, Business, Business plans, Vente-Privee.com, Site
Yahoo's Bartz willing to sell search
News But, Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz says, the right company would have to have a technology she believes in and "boatloads of money".
Tags: Search, Business development/management, Twitter, Positioning, Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., co-founder, CEO, Search Technology, brand
Yahoo CEO makes reorganization announcement
News Carol Bartz describes some details and the rationale for the Internet pioneer's latest reorganization.
Tags: Search, Business Strategies & Functions, Business development/management, TV, Yahoo! Inc., CEO, blogging, job, asset, blog
Yahoo rebuts Icahn: You have no plan
News Yahoo Chairman Roy Bostock lashes back at Carl Icahn, saying the investor misinterprets facts and has no plan beside selling the company to Microsoft.
Tags: Investor relations, Corporate communications, Business development/management, Microsoft Corp., Plan, Yahoo! Inc., job, shareholder, asset, talent
Icahn to Yahoo: Nix the poison pill, now
News In a letter to board chairman Roy Bostock, the investor activist roars about Yahoo's "insulting" and "deceitful" actions regarding its severance plan.
Tags: Investor relations, Business development/management, Employee communications, Corporate responsibility, Microsoft Corp., Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., CNBC, software, job
Google co-founder pushes for Yahoo ad deal
News Larry Page says an advertising deal between the two companies could be structured so as to keep Yahoo independent without stirring up antitrust issues.
Tags: Antitrust, Internet advertising, Business development/management, Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Larry Page, Advertisement, software, text advertisement, Yahoo IM
We're all guinea pigs in Google's search experiment
News The company keeps an eye on how users respond to variations on the theme. Also: Behind the minimalist design.
Tags: Search, Business development/management, Business Strategies & Functions, Business models, Strategic analysis, Google Inc., Advertisement, co-founder, food, Silicon Valley
The lull in Icahn's proxy fight
News The billionaire investor has been mostly quiet since unveiling his dissident slate to run against Yahoo's board. Should investors be worried?
Tags: Investor relations, Business development/management, Microsoft Corp., Yahoo! Inc., software, BEA Systems Inc., Carl Icahn, Oracle Corp., America, managing director
