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Gartner: 'Speak the CFO's language'
News With the economic situation forcing IT budgets to get cut, an IBM finance director and Gartner analyst offer tips to CIOs on how to get projects approved.
Tags: Budgeting/cost control, IT budgeting, IBM Corp., CFO, Project, IT-spending, Gartner Inc., CIO, analyst, finance
How to finance a green-tech revolution
News Venture-backed tech companies create lots of buzz, but many companies that create green jobs rely on different--and troubled--funding sources.
Tags: Green IT, Business, Investment, Manufacturing, Investor, Renewable Energy, Government, financing, venture capital, CEO
Google switches on Apps Script
News Enterprise users of Google's Web-based office productivity suite can now add customized scripts to automate various business processes.
Tags: Web browsers, Enterprise Search, Tool, Web Service, Google Search, finance, Google Apps, spreadsheet, team, Web browsers
Yahoo's mobile home page cutting back on reloads
News Yahoo reveals an enhanced mobile home page that offers more stories that require you to reload the Web page fewer times.
Tags: Browser, Mobile/Wireless, Yahoo! Inc., partnership, mobile, Video, CTIA, movie, Apple iPhone, strategy
Windows' new saleswoman talks '7'
Insight newsmaker Microsoft Vice President Tami Reller discusses the new operating system, the growing role of netbooks and the intense war of words with Apple.
Tags: Windows 7, Personal Computers, Computer, Kylie, Microsoft Corp., Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows 7, Customer, Microsoft Windows XP
Cash for Clunkers could raid renewable-energy loans
News Trade-in program for fuel-efficient vehicles is popular with politicians and consumers alike. But a proposal to extend it could take money allocated for renewable-energy loan guarantees.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, Department Of Energy, Renewable Energy, U.S. Senate, White House, finance, U.S. Congress, biofuel, Business Strategies & Functions, Barack Obama
Khosla Ventures piles up US$1B for green tech
News Vinod Khosla is seeking out "science experiments" that address environmental problems and nabs former Facebook CFO and former CMEA investor to run two venture funds.
Tags: Green IT, Clean Technology, Manufacturing, Investor, venture capital, venture-capital fund, finance, biofuel, green technology, biotechnology
Telecom NZ suffering further decline
News Telecom New Zealand has reported a 43.9 percent fall in full year net profit to US$271.8 million, continuing a recent downward trend.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, Telecommunications, Broadband, amortization, EBITDA, CEO, financial, network, mobile network, finance
When governments don't look back, in anger history returns
Blogs I had hosted a roundtable dialog in April 2001 that included Neil Montefiore, then-CEO of MobileOne (M1). In the midst o...
Seeing into the future with IT
Insight newsmaker Chakib Bouhdary, SAP chief value officer, on how the economic downturn is changing CEOs' decisions and technology choices in business today.
Tags: Data warehousing/business intelligence, Leadership, SAP AG, Asia, Chinese company, CEO, China, finance, acquisition, Brazil
Techies must rebrand themselves as 'integral'
News IT professionals still seen as personnel who serve other departments, rather than as an integral part of the business, notes IASA CEO.
Tags: Organizational structure, Personnel management, Workforce, IT Professional, Malaysia, CIO, CEO, revenue, finance, Edwin Yapp
CIO role still relevant to businesses
News IT heads continue to play a pivotal role steering their companies toward increased market advantage, even if they now report to their CFO, not CEO.
Tags: Corporate culture, Organizational structure, Personnel management, CFO, Asia-Pacific, EMC Corp., Gartner Inc., Tsamados, CIO, e-mail
Sara Lee, IBM sign outsourcing deal
News Stretching seven years, contract will see IBM's Philippine delivery center as one of the locations tasked to support finance and accounting services for Sara Lee.
Tags: IT outsourcing, Outsourcing, Sara Lee Corp., IBM Corp., Outsourcing, Business Process, Back-office, SCM, Procurement, supply chain
India's budget 'retains IT competitiveness'
News Government unveils budget that is warmly welcomed by national trade body Nassom, but deemed inadequate by some industry watchers.
Tags: Local Government, Taxes, E-government, India, International Data Corp., Information And Communication Technology, e-mail, industry, finance, tax
Skype co-founders may buy it back
News Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis sold the company to eBay in 2005 for US$2.6 billion. They may be trying to buy it back now for US$2 billion, the New York Times reported.
Tags: VoIP, Skype Technologies S.A., eBay Inc., Internet phone, private equity company, venture capital, venture-capital company, co-founder, New York Times Co., finance
