Business Structures
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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
Microsoft planning big layoffs for January?
News The latest rumor puts the possible job cuts at 15,000, or nearly 17 percent of Microsoft's worldwide operations, with MSN getting hit hard.
Tags: Human resources, Budgeting/cost control, Business structures, Microsoft Corp., Sales, console sale, layoff, Fudzilla, Blodget, Middle East
Accounting rule change approved by FASB
News Change allows companies like Apple to recognize revenue much faster.
Tags: Business structures, Apple Inc., TV, Sales, Apple TV, financial, Apple iPhone, agreement, accounting, Business structures
Yahoo shareholders content to wait and see
News CEO Bartz promised to turn Yahoo around by focusing on content and organization in her first annual shareholder meeting.
Tags: Domain names, Business structures, Content management, Yahoo! Inc., online media, search engine company, content company, China, shareholder, board of directors
Report: eBay is building a Frankenskype
News Auction company wants to spin off telephony service it bought over four years ago, but rights to some of its software still remain with company's founders.
Tags: Networking technology, VoIP, Business structures, Skype Technologies S.A., eBay Inc., Google Inc., IPO, Bloomberg L.P., telephony, founder
Report: Yahoo CEO questions search sale
News Newly named CEO Carol Bartz tells employees her first inclination is to keep the company's search business, according to a Reuters report.
Tags: Search, Acquisitions, Business structures, Microsoft Corp., Steve Ballmer, Yahoo! Inc., Carol Bartz, CEO, News.com, CNET Networks Inc.
Yahoo tries to conceal lawsuit documents
News Suing shareholders and Yahoo disagree about whether information on the company's employee severance plan should be public.
Tags: Business development/management, Business structures, Business Strategies & Functions, Steve Ballmer, Yahoo! Inc., Associated Press, activist investor, top executive, Jerry Yang, shareholder
Yahoo responds to Icahn
News The Internet company says that Icahn's take "reflects a significant misunderstanding of the facts about the Microsoft proposal". It goes on (and on) from there.
Tags: Business development/management, Business structures, Investor relations, Microsoft Corp., Stockholder, Yahoo! Inc., Advertisement, Environment, monetization, financial
Carl Icahn will launch proxy fight against Yahoo
News Billionaire investor Carl Icahn is reportedly planning a move that could ultimately kick out Yahoo's entire board.
Tags: Business development/management, Business structures, Investments, Microsoft Corp., Yahoo! Inc., Stock, Carl Icahn, shareholder, Internet, blog
Yahoo sets shareholders meeting for July 3--fireworks anticipated
News Yahoo sets a 10-day deadline for any shareholder who wants to name a dissident director to run against Yahoo's board to step forward by the end of business on May 15.
Tags: Business structures, Business Strategies & Functions, Steve Ballmer, M&A, Yahoo! Inc., Jerry Yang, shareholder, Internet, blog, time clock
Nokia adjusts to regain market share in Thailand
News Company's Thai operations plans to focus on its integrated product and services strategy under a "handsets plus solutions and services" approach.
Tags: Sales strategy, Forecasting, Sales/revenue, Business structures, Mobile, Thailand, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, business strategy, Forecasting, Nokia Thailand
High price may affect True Corp offer
News True Corp shareholders approved the issue of 10 billion new shares to raise 153.3 billion baht (US$4.43 billion) of capital for the telecommunications company.
Tags: Business broadband, Business structures, Investments, Mobile, Thailand, Dividend, World Bank, Stock, pay-TV, EBITDA
Report: Microsoft beats out Yahoo, Google on Verizon deal
News Microsoft is close to announcing it has beat out Yahoo and Google in a coveted deal to be the search provider on Verizon phones, according to a Reuters story.
Tags: Business structures, Search, Investments, Internet advertising, Verizon Communications Inc., Microsoft Corp., Mobile, Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Portal
Phorm loses top UK executives
News The U.K. CEO and CFO of the behavioral-targeted advertising firm have resigned, prompting new appointments.
Tags: Internet advertising, Business structures, Web sites, British Telecommunications, CFO, Turner Broadcasting System Inc., Advertisement, London, CEO, U.K.
Adobe to cut 9 percent of workforce
News Elimination of 680 full-time jobs comes as the software maker tries to align costs in the face of lagging sales. They follow a 9 percent reduction within the Omniture unit
Tags: Business development/management, Business structures, Adobe Systems Inc., Omniture Inc., Web analytics company, restructuring, software, job, Workforce, Sales
