The Carphone Warehouse group of companies comprises the trade names and brands. The company wanted a matching array of sophisticated support services with a flexible model that could enable fast, reliable development without creating unwieldy and expensive projects. Outsourcing development to an offshore operation made sense. Patni established a governance...
Charles Dunstone clearly understands that innovation -- and disruption -- is the route to ongoing success. His sale of 50 per cent Carphone Warehouse's retail business to US electronics retailing giant Best Buy is the latest in a series of bold moves by its founder and CEO...
Dean Bubley submits: I just had an interesting chat with the sales guys in my local branch of Carphone Warehouse. I was inquiring about the new SonyEricsson SNE C902 phone, and so asked them which networks it was available on. They replied that it was supplied in with either...
ATLANTA (Reuters) - Electronics retailer Best Buy Co BBY is looking to new product categories and business models to help it double annual sales to $80 billion over the next five years, executives said on Wednesday. Mike Vitelli, executive vice president for customer...
MILAN (Reuters UK) - Italian broadband operator Tiscali TIS said on Monday it was still studying offers from parties interested in its assets, missing a June 30 deadline it had set for itself for finding a buyer. "Several hypotheses are still being analysed," it said in...
By Kate Holton LONDON (Reuters UK) - BT BT will suspend its share buyback to invest 1.5 billion pounds in rolling out super-fast broadband to 10 million homes by 2012, enabling services such as video conferencing and interactive gaming. But its shares fell as some analysts...
By Kate Holton and Marc Roca LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's BT BT plans to invest 1.5 billion pounds ($3 billion) to roll out super-fast broadband to up to 10 million UK homes by 2012, enabling services such as video conferencing and interactive gaming....
