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Sun to lay off another 3,000 employees
News In preparation for its takeover by Oracle, server maker says it expects to cut about 10 percent of its global workforce over next 12 months.
Wednesday, October 21 2009 01:22 PM
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, IBM Corp., restructuring, restructuring charge, European Commission, job, Business Strategies & Functions, Larry Ellison, Workforce, Sun Microsystems Inc.
Gartner: Brace yourself for cloud computing
News Cloud computing led Gartner's list of ten big technologies to plan for in 2010. Also: mobile apps, desktop virtualization, social networks, green IT.
Wednesday, October 21 2009 09:02 AM
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, Cloud computing, Computer, Virtualization, Information Technology, mobile, Business Strategies & Functions, Social Computing, Gartner Inc., Cloud computing
Investors see IBM outside tech's recovery
News Third-quarter earnings beat expectations and IBM raised its full-year profit forecasts, but a decline in contract signings disappointed Wall Street.
Sunday, October 18 2009 11:52 PM
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, IBM Corp., Outsourcing, Armonk, Hardware Sales Inc., software, Information Technology, revenue, Business Strategies & Functions, Investor
Understanding the big picture sometimes means scaling back
Techguide Easy come, easy go. After winning approval for a new position, Benny Sisko is almost immediately asked to give it up. Believe it or not, the reasoning made sense.
Tuesday, October 06 2009 11:03 AM
Tags: Leadership techniques, Business Strategies & Functions, Position, Information Technology, revenue, job, Human Resources Inc., Business Strategies & Functions, Consulting, CIO
China Web clampdown ahead of anniversary
News Reports suggest the Chinese government has been taking more steps to censor the Internet in the run-up to celebrations of 60 years of the republic.
Friday, October 02 2009 09:21 AM
Tags: Web sites, Web 2.0, Business Strategies & Functions, Data Management, Relay, Security, Blue Cross Blue Shield, network, software, Business Strategies & Functions
Search ad spending improves--and boosts Google shares
News With Google set to report earnings Thursday, two search marketing firms said U.S. text-ad spending improved for the second straight quarter.
Wednesday, October 14 2009 11:19 AM
Tags: Internet advertising, Business Strategies & Functions, Yahoo! Inc., Google Inc., Microsoft Live Search, advertisement, U.S., Business Strategies & Functions, Internet Search Advertising, ROI
AT&T buys application developer
News Phone giant nabs Plusmo to help it build more apps and widgets for mobile phones, PCs, and TV.
Thursday, October 01 2009 10:02 AM
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, Applications and tools, Apple iPhone, TV, Phone, cell phone, Web development, mobile, Business Strategies & Functions, Plusmo
Microsoft gets big patent verdict overturned
News District court vacates an April ruling that would have had Microsoft being forced to pay US$388 million in a patent infringement case.
Thursday, October 01 2009 10:43 AM
Tags: Business applications, Business Strategies & Functions, XML, spokesman, Microsoft Corp., Business Strategies & Functions, Business applications, Microsoft Word, Sales, Canada
Aussies hit with IBM price hike
News IBM has confirmed it will raise Australian prices on a number of its products by 3 percent effective from 1 January 2010, in response to what Big Blue described as "changing economic conditions and cost structures".
Sunday, October 18 2009 09:51 PM
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, Business applications, Adobe Systems Inc., IBM Corp., IBM WebSphere Application Server, software, Business applications, Business Strategies & Functions, Adobe PhotoShop, Microsoft Windows 7
Report: Apple, Google agreed not to poach each other's workers
News The two companies are said to have had an agreement not to actively recruit each other's employees--at least that is before Eric Schmidt stepped down from Apple's board.
Monday, August 10 2009 03:36 AM
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, Worker, Eric Schmidt, antitrust, hiring, Business Strategies & Functions, board, Apple Inc., Google Inc., agreement
Samsung's market value approaches Intel's
News In 2002 it surpassed Sony, and now some analysts expect Samsung to surpass Intel in market valuation in a year or so.
Monday, September 07 2009 04:04 AM
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., TV, Memory Chip, Market Capitalization, Sony Corp., semiconductor, Business Strategies & Functions, Intel Corp., handset
Former MySQL CEO Mickos joins Benchmark
News Open source database company's one-time chief executive is now entrepreneur in residence at a leading Silicon Valley venture capital firm.
Thursday, October 01 2009 10:06 AM
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, Marten Mickos, Open Source, E-mail, MySQL, Benchmark Capital, entrepreneur, software, CEO, Business Strategies & Functions
Time Warner CEO: No thanks to big media deals
News Jeff Bewkes says the company is not interested in bidding on NBC Universal or any other big media company because those deals typically fail.
Monday, October 05 2009 10:10 AM
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, e-reader, CEO, Business Strategies & Functions, TV, America Online Inc., Cable, Comcast Corp., NBC Universal Inc., Time Warner Inc.
Apple buys map service to compete with Google?
News Apparent purchase of PlaceBase may explain why Apple required Google Latitude to be a Web-based app and not a native iPhone app.
Friday, October 02 2009 10:27 AM
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, Google Inc., Apple Inc., mobile, PlaceBase, Google Latitude Episode, Business Strategies & Functions, Dell Latitude, Web Browser, Eric Schmidt
Yahoo's CEO to deliver CES keynote
News Carol Bartz's first turn on the CES stage as Yahoo's CEO marks the company's return to the main spotlight at the Las Vegas show.
Wednesday, October 14 2009 11:00 AM
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, Yahoo! Inc., Tom Cruise, Business Strategies & Functions, TV, Entertainment Company, Consumer Electronics Association, Electronics, Ford Motor Co., Consumer Electronics Show
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