Growth Strategies And Tools
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eSolar bets on software to make solar cheaper
Insight newsmaker Bill Gross, the head of start-up incubator Idealab and CEO of eSolar, uses a background in Internet entrepreneurship and software to bring down the cost of utility-scale solar.
Tags: Green IT, Growth strategies and tools, Bill Gross, Renewable Energy, Idealab, CEO, Internet, U.S., California, solar energy
Indian IT runs home, new geographies for growth
News Hit by global recession, India's local tech firms target projects on home soil and venture into new regions including Middle East and Latin America.
Tags: IT outsourcing, Outsourcing, Growth strategies and tools, Business, Infosys Technologies Ltd., Banking, Growth, Market, Information Technology, revenue
IT will lead Asia's economic recovery
News Region's tech spending in 2009 will outpace gross domestic product, growing by 4.8 percent to reach US$300 billion in 2009, finds new IDC study.
Tags: Growth strategies and tools, Microsoft Windows, Personal applications, Business, Microsoft Corp., software, Information Technology, revenue, Asia, International Data Corp.
Sue Decker bullish in goodbye memo to Yahoo staff
News The outgoing president says in farewell e-mail: Yahoo is "positioned to weather a challenging economic cycle and come out the other side stronger than before."
Tags: Recruiting, Search, Growth strategies and tools, Business models, Innovation, Yahoo! Inc., API, News.com, leader, Search Technology
Google conquers 2008 US search market
News Unsurprisingly, Google led the search market in the United States last year. But third-place Microsoft has reclaimed some share over the last five months, says new research.
Tags: Growth strategies and tools, Business models, Search, Microsoft Corp., Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., America Online Inc., MSN Search, Ask.com, Hitwise
Facebook's land grab in the face of a downturn
News The social-networking site is moving aggressively to sign up more users around the world while much of Silicon Valley hunkers down.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web services, Growth strategies and tools, MySpace, Google Inc., Advertisement, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook, marketing, SEC
Google signs US$146M lease for NASA campus
News The deal, negotiated over the last year, builds on an agreement the search giant signed with NASA in September 2005 to collaborate on space and technology research.
Tags: Investments, Growth strategies and tools, NASA, Google Inc., Lease, Carnegie-Mellon University, workplace, partnership, Silicon Valley, R&D
Morgan Stanley exec is new Google CIO
News Ben Fried, who oversaw core computing operations for the financial service firm, will become Google's next CIO, CNET News.com has learned.
Tags: Leadership, Growth strategies and tools, Business development/management, Google Inc., EMI Group Plc., Morgan Stanley, CIO, software, job, managing director
ISVs key to unlocking India's possibilities
News Independent software vendors in India could unleash the potential the country holds for large global tech vendors.
Tags: Business applications, Growth strategies and tools, SMB, India, International Data Corp., software company, software, technology company, ISV, financial
To challenge Google, Microsoft might want to think Apple
News Redmond's challenge is to prove the Windows experience is worth paying for. If it is looking for a game plan, it might want to look at how the Mac has tackled the PC.
Tags: Investor relations, Public relations, Forecasting, Network administration/implementation, Standards, Growth strategies and tools, Innovation, Apple Inc., Google Inc., Web Browser
India will still enjoy IT growth this year
News update Boosted by expected arrival of 3G, infrastructure consolidation and SMB outsourcing, India's IT spend will grow 14.1 percent in 2009, says Springboard Research.
Tags: Growth strategies and tools, Green IT, IT outsourcing, Business, Growth, India, Telecommunications, IT-spending, Asia-Pacific, Small And Medium Business
Crisis backs Philippine BPO, software sectors
News Economic downturn bolsters growth for country's outsourcing and software industries, as market players form regional hubs to vie for U.S. contracts.
Tags: IT outsourcing, Outsourcing, Software, Growth strategies and tools, Outsourcing, Philippines, Business Process, BPO, Sorio, financial
IT vendors ready partners for new tech
News Beyond providing online and physical training facilities and support mechanisms, companies like IBM and HP, also subsidize training costs of their partners.
Tags: Business, Business development/management, Growth strategies and tools, Channel management, Sales, Partner, Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM Corp., Training, HPSS
Asia's tech CEOs still eye robust growth
News Most chief executives in the region are confident of maintaining growth, and one in two expect over 25 percent jump in headcount in 2009, new survey finds.
Tags: Growth strategies and tools, Earning reports/forecasts, Strategy, Integrated Circuit, Asia, Telecommunications, Survey, Asia-Pacific, Korea, CEO
Compliance a CIO's priority but not for peers
News Regulatory compliance ranks high on the agenda of technology heads, but not necessarily so for the rest of top management, a new survey has found.
Tags: IT Governance, Infrastructure/architecture management, Management by objectives, Corporate responsibility, Growth strategies and tools, Leadership techniques, compliance, CIO, performance, high-performance
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