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Partnership to study hybrid vehicle effects on the grid: A partnership between the University of Michigan (U-M), General Motors and DTE Energy has received a USD5m grant to study plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV). The Michigan Energy Efficiency Grant will enable U-M's Transportation Research Institute and its partners to study the effect that PHEVs have on the state's...; Tags: Partnership, Grant, Grid, Business Structures, Finance, Faisal Audhali; News items 2008-05-09
Microsoft's Gates Not Ruling Out Deals Post-Yahoo: SEOUL (Reuters UK) -Microsoft (MSFT) does not rule out partnerships with other companies but has nothing imminent, Chairman Bill Gates said on Tuesday, after the software company pulled a $47.5 billion (24 billion pound) bid for Yahoo (YHOO). Microsoft walked away from its bid to...; Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp., Business Structures, Internet, Channel Management, Finance, Google Inc.; News items 2008-05-06
Yahoo Shares Fall 21 Percent: NEW YORK (Reuters UK) - Yahoo's (YHOO) shares tumbled 22 percent in premarket trading on Monday after Microsoft (MSFT) withdrew its $47.5 billion (24.1 billion pound) takeover offer for the Internet search and media company. The collapse of talks on what would have been one of...; Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Business Structures, Search, Finance, Google Inc., Oukbs; News items 2008-05-05
Arrow Awarded Two CSG Blocks in India: Arrow Energy Ltd has been awarded two coal seam gas blocks in India, where it plans to commence drilling in the next couple of weeks.The licences are for the Raj Mahal block in the state of Jharkhand and for the Tatapani-Ramkola block in the state of Chhattisgarh.Arrow is the...; Tags: India, Australian Associated Press Pty Ltd., Business Structures, Finance, AAP; News items 2008-04-18
Microsoft Poised to Detail Next Moves on Yahoo: CEO: By Anupreeta Das and Eric Auchard SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp (MSFT) Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said on Thursday that walking away from a deal with Yahoo remained one of "three big options" the company is weighing and to expect an announcement...; Tags: Business structures, Steve Ballmer, Yahoo! Inc., pursuit, partnership, San Francisco, Microsoft Corp., Google Inc., spokesman, strategy, search result, Thomson Reuters Corp., CEO, antitrust, board, stock, advertisement, Internet; News items 2008-05-01

Yahoo to Stay Focused on Alternatives: Source: SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc (YHOO) will stay focused on evaluating strategic alternatives after Microsoft Corp (MSFT) walked away from a $44.6 billion takeover offer, a person familiar with the matter said on Saturday. Yahoo is not looking for offers, the source...; Tags: Ray Ozzie, software architect, Financial Times, Internet company, Yahoo! Inc., New York, Thomson Reuters Corp., Microsoft Corp., Internet, merger, financial, benefit; News items 2008-05-03
Yahoo Shares Plunge After Microsoft's Exit: By Tiffany Wu and Michele Gershberg NEW YORK (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc's (YHOO) shares tumbled as much as 20 percent on Monday after Microsoft Corp (MSFT) withdrew its $47.5 billion takeover offer, wiping about $7.6 billion off the Internet company's market capitalization and...; Tags: Strategy, Yahoo! Inc., market capitalization, Google Inc., shareholder, online advertising, Internet company, search listing, leadership, partnership, New York Times Co., risk, analyst, Microsoft Corp., New York, Thomson Reuters Corp., alliance, benefit, negotiation, Intern; News items 2008-05-05
Google Optimistic Regulators Won't Bar Yahoo: Source: By Anupreeta Das SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc (GOOG) believes regulators would not bar a potential business deal with Yahoo Inc (YHOO) because it would be "non-exclusive" and falls short of an outright merger, a person familiar with Google's thinking...; Tags: Business structures, Mergers & Acquisitions, Channel management, SEARCH, Yahoo! Inc., Google Inc., Google AdSense, partnership, antitrust, regulator, merger, Internet search, U.S. Department of Justice, search engine, Internet search advertising, San Francisco, Web, Thoms; News items 2008-04-25
Cocreating Business's New Social Compact: The Idea in Brief Executives and social activists working together? It's true: after decades of mutual distrust, corporations and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) are collaborating to combat poverty around the world. Their weapon? Innovative local businesses such as...; Tags: Sales strategy, Jeb Brugmann, C.K. Prahalad, British Petroleum Co plc, poverty, business ethics, accommodation, India, working capital, developing country, market research, women, income, sales, collaboration, health care, knowledge, marketing; Articles 2008-04-14
OzJet Sold to HeavyLift Cargo Airlines: Australian aviation and motor racing identity Paul Stoddart has sold his niche charter airline, OzJet, to HeavyLift Cargo Airlines.OzJet said Sydney-based HeavyLift had acquired OzJet and its fleet of four Boeing 737 aircraft "in a multi-million dollar deal".Mr Stoddart said he was pleased that OzJet would maintain its progress...; Tags: Airline, OzJet, Litigation, Business Structures, Business Operations, Finance, AAP; News items 2008-05-06
More Airbus Factory Sale Talks Collapse: By Tim Hepher and James Regan PARIS/FRANKFURT (Reuters UK) - Airbus scrapped plans to sell two French factories to one of its suppliers on Wednesday, bowing to the global credit crisis for the second time in a month after a similar sale collapsed in Germany. The...; Tags: Factory, Airbus, Supplier, EADS, Channel Management, Business Structures, Marketing, Power8; News items 2008-05-07
7-Eleven, Inc.: Innovative Messaging Solution Makes Information-Sharing More Convenient: Convenience retailer 7-Eleven owes a great deal of its success to its adoption of sophisticated technologies that help individual store operators closely monitor their store inventories and quickly respond to changes in customer demand. Effectively distributing the information has been one of the company's primary technology challenges. Complicating matters further...; Tags: Electronic Data Systems Corp., 7-Eleven Inc., messaging, monitor, hardware; Case studies
Cross-Cultural Leadership: Few successful businesses now work with people from only one culture. At the shallowest level, most Western businesses (even those based in one location) employ people from many cultural backgrounds. At a deeper level, the impact of globalization and cost differences between regions means that many companies either outsource parts...; Tags: globalization, outsource, outsourcing; White papers
Best-in-Class Business Exchange Solution Streamlines, Speeds Business Processes: Optimizing e-Business Connections: Gates Rubber Europe a leading manufacturer of rubber belts and hoses, wiper blades and hydraulic products for a wide range of automotive, agricultural and industrial applications. The Gates Rubber exchanges tens of thousands of documents each month with customers and trading partners meant it needed fast, easy Electronic Data Interchange...; Tags: Electronic Data Systems Corp., EDI, business process, e-business, Internet; Case studies
Development and Maintenance of a Dealer Management Solution Built on Microsoft Navision Platform: The client, a leading DSP, provides dealer management solutions for automotive retailing, serving automotive retailers and OEMs through its partner network as well as a worldwide consulting practice. With several players in the market, the client wanted to become more competitive by handling a larger number of vehicle 'Makes' and...; Tags: Infosys Technologies Ltd., DSP, Strategic Planning, consulting, partnership, network; Case studies
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines: Online Check-In: KLM Royal Dutch Airlines (KLM) is an international airline offering passengers and airfreight shippers more than 113,000 connections throughout the world. For frequent flyers, congested airports and lengthy check-in queues have long been an irritation. In November 2003, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines decided to change all that for the passengers...; Tags: Strategy, Accenture Ltd., KLM, IT project management, Web application, information technology; Case studies
Huntington National Bank Gains Competitive Advantage Through a Best-in-Class Originations Platform: Huntington National Bank, the primary subsidiary of Huntington Bancshares Incorporated, a $30 billion regional bank holding company headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, was seeking to replace its homegrown originations system with a best-in-class solution that would allow greater flexibility, functionality, and scalability. After evaluating systems from several providers, Huntington turned to...; Tags: Financial services, CGI Group Inc., scalability, competitive advantage, bank, strategy; Case studies
CGI and Bell Implement a Solution Providing "Just in Time" Cable Provisioning - Securing Over $3 Million of Savings in Only 4 Months: CGI's challenge was to use the SAP Portal module to link the three companies and streamline the supply process. Entries needed to be transmitted from Bell Canada to its cable installation partners, but remain in the Bell system for tracking. The most challenging aspect of this link would be enabling...; Tags: Scripting languages, CGI Group Inc., CGI, Bell Canada, SAP AG, JIT, logistics, portal, cable; Case studies
A 30-Year Business Partnership With CGI Helps Commerce Insurance Maintain Leadership Position: Commerce Group Inc. is the 20th largest private passenger automobile writer in the U.S. Commerce was seeking a strategic business partner with a local presence to provide a cost-effective business processing solution to support their large business volumes for policy processing and document management services and chose CGI. CGI leveraged...; Tags: Scripting languages, Business structures, CGI Group Inc., CGI, partnership, document management, insurance, leadership; Case studies
New Vision for Partner Management and Integration for Medical Device Manufacturer: To accelerate cycle times and reduce costs, a leading medical device manufacturer had decided to shift in their product development strategy to a systems integration approach. Because the company had previously been developing all its products in-house, executing this new strategy required the company to integrate outside design partners into...; Tags: HEALTHCARE, PRTM, medical device, development process, device manufacturer, vision, systems integration, manufacturer, product development, strategy; White papers