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- HP Seals EDS Deal; Services No. 2 Behind IBM; Can Hurd Run EDS Better?
- Updated: Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd said Tuesday he plans to use a familiar playbook to integrate Electronic Data Systems: Leverage scale, squeeze costs — and underpromise and overdeliver. "We're running the playbook we know how to run very well," said Hurd, on a conference call with analysts....
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- EDS Internal Memo on the HP Purchase
- HP acquired EDS in a deal valued roughly at $12.8 billion. The move was outlined Tuesday morning amid a healthy dose of skepticism. Here's a memo from EDS CEO Ron Rittenmeyer, who will now report to HP CEO Mark Hurd. To the EDS Worldwide Team: Today...
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- Sprint's Inferno: Churn Baby Churn
- Sprint Nextel said Monday that it has lost more than 1 million customers in the last year. Sprint, which has been busy of late with a WiMax joint venture with Clearwire and alleged takeover overtures from Deutsche Telekom, provided a healthy dose of its financial reality with...
- Blog posts 2008-05-12
- Google Kicks Off Its Facebook Ground War
- Updated: Google on Monday outlined its Google Friend Connect, a service that promises to insert social features into any application and any site. Sound familiar? It is. MySpace has its friend connect service and Facebook has its version. Add it up and you have...
- Blog posts 2008-05-12
- Powerset's Search: Does It Deliver?
- Powerset has rolled out its semantic search engine and has managed to get a ton of attention. The larger question for me: Does it deliver? And where does Powerset make the most sense? Powerset on Monday introduced its natural language search for Wikipedia content (Techmeme). This effort...
- Blog posts 2008-05-12
- More on RIM's Moat: Launches BlackBerry Bold; App Developer Fund
- Business people can be hip too. That appears to be the message from Research in Motion and its motives behind its new BlackBerry Bold smartphone. There's definitely a hint of some iPhone envy here, but the device isn't a direct competitor. From the statement (Matthew Miller's take,...
- Blog posts 2008-05-12
- Logged Into Google? You May See More Ads
- Google may be using its properties–iGoogle, Gmail and Apps–to step up its behavioral ad efforts. That's the conclusion from Piper Jaffray Gene Munster who tracks 400 searches on Google and Yahoo each month. Munster defines a behavioral ad as one that pertains to a past query. ...
- Blog posts 2008-05-09
- If You Want to Sell a Startup, Plan a Shutdown
- Almost a month ago, Mowser founder Russell Beattie was lamenting his debts and telling folks his creation was disappearing. He also questioned the idea of the mobile Web overall. Fast forward a bit and Beattie is announcing the sale of Mowser to dotMobi. Go figure. ...
- Blog posts 2008-05-09
- Vonage Narrows Losses; Inks Deal with Covad
- Vonage is still losing money, but the bottom line is moving in the right direction. The company also signed a deal with Covad to offer DSL service. The VOIP provider on Thursday reported a first quarter net loss of $9 million, or 6 cents a share, compared...
- Blog posts 2008-05-08
- AMD Still Mum on Its 'Asset Smart' Strategy
- The wait for AMD to outline its so-called "asset smart" strategy continues. AMD CEO Hector Ruiz in his annual shareholder meeting address failed to add any more detail about its manufacturing strategy going forward. AMD outlined its new server roadmap on Wednesday. In many respects, Ruiz...
- Blog posts 2008-05-08
- Monetizing Social Media: Still an Uphill Climb; Some Friends May Be Worthless
- News Corp. confirmed what had been reported for weeks: Fox Interactive revenue isn't going to hit its targets. The problem: Social networking is still very hard to monetize. Does inventory matter when you can't sell it? Peter Chernin, News Corp.'s operating chief, delivered his state of MySpace...
- Blog posts 2008-05-08
- AMD's New Roadmap: Can It Execute?
- AMD has revamped its server processor roadmap with plans to jump to six and then 12 cores in the first half of 2010, but the larger question is whether the company can actually deliver. Given that AMD has had a hard time delivering its quad-core chips and...
- Blog posts 2008-05-08
- Microsoft Still Shopping; Approached Facebook
- Microsoft, just a few days removed from walking away from its Yahoo bid, is reportedly sniffing around Facebook. According to Kara Swisher, Microsoft's bankers contacted Facebook to see if Mark Zuckerberg and company would be interested in selling the company. The Wall Street Journal also reported the...
- Blog posts 2008-05-07
- WiMax Saved: Sprint, Clearwire Form Joint Venture; Google, Intel Among Backers
- Sprint and Clearwire have combined their WiMax businesses to form a new venture that will be focused on next generation broadband services. The company will be backed by $3.2 billion from the likes of Intel, Google, Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks. This new venture,...
- Blog posts 2008-05-07
- RIM's Balsillie: 'Not Religious' About Form Factors; B2B the Company's Core
- The Research in Motion vs. Apple smartphone face-off makes for a good story, but the companies present an interesting business strategy question: Is it better to start in the enterprise and then go consumer or vice versa? In an interview with me at SAP Sapphire (all resources)...
- Blog posts 2008-05-06
- SAP Aims to Make Upgrades Easier; Rolls Out Enhancement Packages; Touts Analytics
- Henning Kagermann, co-CEO of SAP, wants to do away with the upgrade-go-round with its upcoming Business Suite 7.0 with "enhancement packages," small optional updates designed to add functionality to enterprise resource planning applications. Enhancement packages are small SOA-enabled packs that can add new functionality to SAP's Business...
- Blog posts 2008-05-06
- Would the Addition of Sprint Screw Up T-Mobile?
- Deutsche Telekom is reportedly mulling a bid for Sprint Nextel and plans to combine it with its T-Mobile unit. The move, reported by the Wall Street Journal, is interesting on a few fronts. For starters, a combined Sprint-T-Mobile would be the largest wireless carrier in the U.S....
- Blog posts 2008-05-05
- Yahoo's Yang Gives His 'Don't Crush Our Stock We're OK' Address
- Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang on the company's corporate blog gave investors–that's who he's really speaking to–a "what doesn't kill you makes you stronger" missive. Yang had to say something given he's in for an ugly Monday following Microsoft's walkaway over the weekend. However, it's highly doubtful that...
- Blog posts 2008-05-05
- SAP CEO: Ballmer Should Have Bought Yahoo
- If Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer were to call SAP CEO Henning Kagermann for advice on what he should do with his $40 billion to $50 billion the advice would be: Spend it on Yahoo. That call isn't totally out of the question given that Ballmer and Kagermann...
- Blog posts 2008-05-05
- Yahoo, Microsoft Still Keeping the Media Guessing
- Have you ever felt used? Betrayed? Used as a pawn in a silly negotiation game? If you're in the media your answer in the last few days is a decided yes. The New York Times is reporting that Yahoo and Microsoft are actually talking merger now. The...
- Blog posts 2008-05-02
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