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Can Microsoft retail succeed where others have failed?
Insight commentary Apple stands out as the big exception but the history of tech companies trying their hand at operating their own retail stores is grim.
Tags: Microsoft Windows, Sales/revenue, Sales, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., IBM Corp., Apple Macintosh, dot-com, AST Computers, Wal-Mart Stores Inc.
Asia is going green, like it or not
News Businesses in Asia may not be as strongly bound by law to go green as Western counterparts, but economic pressures will take care of that, says ILOG chief scientist.
Tags: Green IT, Logistics planning, Inventory management, Supply chain management (SCM), Ilog, Carbon Emission, Asia, Supplier, Emission, Europe
IBM passes Cisco in market value for 1st time since 1999
News International Business Machines Corp passed Cisco Systems Inc in market value for the first time since September 1999 after Cisco shares fell to a 22-month low.
Twitter still doesn't have a head of sales
News But, in a speech at the Brainstorm: Tech conference, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone insists that the company knows what it is doing.
Tags: Web 2.0, Twitter, Conference, Sales, Worker, VP, co-founder, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., financial, TechCrunch
Amazon bucks trend of worst retail season in decades
News Amazon proclaims that the 2008 festive shopping was its “best ever,” even though a report released on Christmas Day called the season one of the worst in decades.
Tags: E-commerce, Forecasting, Sales strategy, Sales/revenue, Electronics, Sales, food sale, 1080p, Forecasting, Intel Atom
Amazon paces holiday tech discount drive
News Deep, early price cuts on tech gadgets by electronics makers and retailers may be good for consumers and bad for profits.
Tags: Web sites, Unit Sale, Amazon.com Inc., Web sites, TV, Consumer Electronics Association, Electronics, Price, E-book Reader, flat panel
Palm Pre launch details revealed this week?
News Reports are floating around the blogosphere that Sprint is getting ready to finally say when it will launch the iPhone rival and how much it plans to charge.
Tags: Smart phones, Palm Inc., Sprint Communications, retail company, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Best Buy Co. Inc., columnist, Apple iPhone, blog, Sprint Nextel Corp.
US$99 iPhone anyone?
News It's not Wal-Mart that has dropped the price into the double digits. It's AT&T, selling a refurbished 8GB iPhone 3G for US$99 through New Year's Eve.
Tags: Handhelds, Sales strategy, Apple iPhone 3G, AT&T Corp., 3G, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., News.com, Apple iPhone, blog, Sales strategy
First Microsoft retail stores to open this fall
News Microsoft confirmed on Wednesday that it is planning to open its first stores this fall, with at least some of the locations likely to be right near an Apple store.
Tags: Business applications, Personal applications, Apple Inc., New Orleans, Microsoft Windows 7, Redmond, retail company, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., CNET Networks Inc., Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Microsoft, Novell add US$100M to Linux deal
News The companies ramp up their existing interoperability deal that gives corporate users a bridge between Windows and Linux.
Tags: Linux, Legal, Open source, Microsoft Windows, Software licensing, Microsoft Corp., Novell Inc., Environment, Southwest Airlines Co., Microsoft Windows Server
Small is beautiful for green-tech newbies
News Even amid the economic gloom, smaller clean-tech start-ups in efficiency and renewable energy are being funded because demand for their products remains strong.
Tags: Green IT, Best strategies, Business, Clean Technology, Investor, Bankruptcy, British Petroleum Co plc, Advanced Electron Beams, Wall Street, business development
Microsoft follows Apple into the retail business
News The company said Thursday that it will open its own line of retail stores and has hired a Wal-Mart veteran to lead the effort.
Tags: Sales strategy, Forecasting, Business Strategies & Functions, Best strategies, Apple Inc., DreamWorks SKG, Microsoft Corp., COO, Porter Five Forces, dot-com
Sony posts loss, but has rosy outlook for electronics division
News The electronics giant says digital cameras and flat-panel TVs should buoy its profits in the coming year.
Tags: Earning reports/forecasts, Consumer Technology, Digital cameras, Monitors and displays, Notebooks and tablets, TV, Electronics, Video, Notebook, console
Gateway ends direct PC sales
News Now part of Acer, the Gateway brand will be distributed through retail and channel partners only.
Tags: Personal Computers, Desktops, Notebooks and tablets, Sales strategy, Sales, Costco, Office Depot Inc., Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Circuit City Stores Inc., Best Buy Co. Inc.
IBM passes Cisco in market value for 1st time since 1999
News International Business Machines Corp passed Cisco Systems Inc in market value for the first time since September 1999 after Cisco shares fell to a 22-month low.
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