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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.