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- What's really ailing Big Blue shares? Hint: IBM is part bank
- Concerns about IBM's third quarter are popping up almost daily. The standard set of concerns revolves around technology spending and the willingness to pay IBM's army of consultants fees for big bang projects as well as a stronger dollar. But underneath the surface there's a bigger worry that isn't being...
- Tags: Asset, Bank, Financial, Financing, IBM Corp., Finance Unit, Financing Unit, Global Financing, Commercial Financing, Participation Rate, Financial Accounting, Investment, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-02
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- Cleantech draws more investments in Q3
- Investment globally were again for the cleantech sector, markking further rebound from the beginning of this year which began glumly. Cleantech Group says total Q3 investments were nearly $1.6 billion. Overall investments in cleantech were up 10% from Q2 but still lagging compared to Q3 in 2008, just...
- Tags: Investment, Clean Technology, Cleantech Group, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-09-30
- Before Copehagen, there'll be Pittsburgh, and then there'll be...
- a whole string of international meetings aimed at coming to some kind of globally acceptable agreement on global warming. Consider this a warm-up for the sci fi imagined event of the killer asteroid headed our way. Can humans really co-operate on the mega-scale? We haven't so far....
- Tags: Agreement, Climate Change, Global Warming, Pittsburgh, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-09-17
- CIT unraveling could be headache for Dell, Avaya, resellers
- The U.S. government has drawn a line in the sand---it won't bail out debt-ridden CIT, a financial services firm that loans money to small and midsized business in part to buy and lease technology equipment. Unlike other financial company implosions CIT's potential demise could have a direct impact on technology...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Financing, Leasing, Avaya Inc., CIT, Capital Structures, Financial Accounting, Investment, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-07-16
- Accounting for success? Darwin meets the green eyeshade world…
- Have you really looked at your options for finance & accounting lately? BPO business process outsourcing for Finance and Accounting has been going on for a time. The industry owes some part of its success to the shared services efforts of larger firms. When businesses created shared...
- Tags: Software, Accounting, Firm, Darwin, F&A, F&A Executive, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Finance, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-06-04
- Hearing the Call: A Promethean Encounter in Copenhagen?
- [caption id="attachment_634" align="aligncenter" width="396" caption="Cate Blanchett: A Promethean Encounter with CEOs in Copenhagen?"][/caption] The great and the good of global business got together in Copenhagen last week to try to reach consensus on what the private sector message should be to the UN...
- Tags: Greenhouse Gas, Copenhagen, Climate, Deforestation, Intellectual Property, Research & Development, Business Operations, James Farrar
- Blog posts 2009-06-03
- NetApp, Data Domain ink revised deal; EMC says bid still superior
- Updated: NetApp and Data Domain said late Wednesday that they have entered a $1.9 billion merger agreement. Under the pact, Data Domain's board has approved NetApp's latest offer, worth $30 a share in cash and stock. NetApp earlier in the day upped its bid for NetApp to...
- Tags: NetApp Inc., Merger, Domain, EMC Corp., Common Stock, Exchange Ratio, Storage, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-06-03
- Environmental groups dump on "global warming" bill
- A gang of environmental groups are calling the current proposed energy and security act a sham, another government giveaway. The bill has just passed out of the House Committee where debate was held. Here's the crux of some environmnentalists' complaint: "As passed through the Energy and...
- Tags: U.S., Permit, Carbon Dioxide, Pollution, Global Warming, Cap And Trade, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-05-22
- Tech vendors: We're ready to help you spend Obama's stimulus money
- If you don't think tech will be one of the first sectors to recover from the current economic conditions, think again. Technology taps into pretty much every sector out there - from manufacturing and health care to education and energy. Many of the businesses in those sectors...
- Tags: ARRA, Dell Computer Corp., E-health, Electronic Health Record, Healthcare, IBM Global Financing, Information Technology, Investment, Management, Sam Diaz, Strategy
- Blog posts 2009-05-01
- IBM's earnings better than expected on software, services; Hardware revenue thumped
- IBM on Monday reported net income of $2.3 billion, or $1.70 a share, on revenue of $21.7 billion, down 11 percent from a year ago largely due to currency fluctuations. The upshot: Cost cutting helped IBM hurdle Wall Street estimates despite lighter than expected revenue. Wall Street...
- Tags: Software, Revenue, Earnings, Hardware, IBM Corp., Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-04-20
- Cisco's bong-sized "cloud"
- Cisco's bong-sized "cloud"You're missing the pointThe point is that Cisco wishes to become the one stop shop for a business requirements; you go to cisco and you get everything you need along with a layer services offered so that you can hand over the cash and let Cisco sort out...
- Tags: Cisco Systems Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-03-19
- Pros and cons: Will HP weather the economic storm?
- This afternoon, Hewlett-Packard is expected to hold its Q1 2009 earnings conference call (2 p.m. PST/5 p.m. EST), and it remains to be seen whether HP will be able to weather the current economic storm. In its 2008 annual earnings report, CEO Mark Hurd said the following:...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Hardware, Sales, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-02-18
- Showroom Management Solution Boosts Sales of Dealer Financing by 25 Percent
- Avida designs and implements business software applications, Web applications, and IT solutions that help businesses remain agile in an increasingly competitive global marketplace. When the company was approached to create a comprehensive showroom management system for the automobile industry, Avida introduced a software-plus-services approach. Using software-plus-services makes it possible for...
- Tags: Solution, Business Software, Financing, Avida, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Enterprise Software, Sales, Software
- Case studies 2009-02-01
- Listening to President Obama: What Price Citizenship?
- Listening to President Obama: What Price Citizenship?The Promised Price of Global CitizenshipI fear for our weakness to succumb to new ideals. A great false hope has been instilled into many Americans. A great calamity has been promised by our new VP. I feel a great sadness for all that follow...
- Tags: Government, worlds economy, Obama, Barack Obama
- Discussion threads 2009-01-20
- Shipping news: Globalization halted by credit crisis
- DK Matai, chairman of the ATCA Open has written a very interesting article about global shipping of bulk cargo and how it has come to a halt because of the lack of letters of credit. Just five months ago it cost about $234,000 to rent a 170,000 tonne Capesize...
- Tags: Cargo, Financial, Raw Material, Vessel, Globalization, Great Unwind, Reports, Financial Accounting, Finance, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2008-11-22
- SAP's Apotheker: 'Happy John Wookey joined us'; Business hasn't gotten worse
- SAP co-CEO Leo Apotheker said Friday that John Wookey, a former Oracle executive, is "a great software man" who will help the enterprise software giant push its software as a service meets on-premise applications strategy. Separately, Apotheker noted that business hasn't gotten worse from the outlook the company gave on...
- Tags: SAP AG, Leo Apotheker, Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Mergers & Acquisitions, Banking, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Financial Accounting, Enterprise Software, Emerging Technologies, Investment, Finance, Financial Services, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-11-21
- GM takes its bailout case to...Yahoo Finance
- GM takes its bailout case to...Yahoo FinanceWhy won't bankruptcy help?It worked for the airlines. They got all kinds of leverage to break / renegotiate labor contracts and pay only pennies on the dollar for old debt, and they're still in business.So WTH?RE: GM takes its bailout case to...Yahoo FinanceI...
- Tags: Financial accounting, bailout case, General Motors Corp., Yahoo Finance, finance, Yahoo! Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-11-19
- Car crash imminent?
- Car crash imminent?Fire the AUW workers and hirepeople who actually want to work for a raise, not just come in and do the bare minimum as they receive the same raise regardless of how much or little they work.It is not the government's fault, it is the UAW and the...
- Tags: Benefits, UAW, car
- Discussion threads 2008-11-16
- Challenging Silicon Valley to put poverty into a museum . . .
- I'm not washing my right hand for a while because I used it to shake the hand of Muhammad Yunus, 2006 Nobel Peace Prize recipient and a person that I've held in the highest regard for many years. Mr Yunus gave the keynote speech at the Tech Museum's Tech...
- Tags: Bangladesh, Entrepreneurship, Grameen Bank, Grameen Loan, Leadership, Management, Muhammad Yunus, Poverty, Silicon Valley, Strategy, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2008-11-13
- The Business Resource Planning Farm League
- The enterprise juggernauts in the Enterprise resource planning ERP space are duking it out in rapidly changing business conditions - SAP are offering packages of applications with zero percent financing, Oracle are on the acquisition trail, buying regulatory compliance rules company Haley, their tenth buy this...
- Tags: Intuit Inc., Intuit QuickBase, Small Business, Productivity, Taxes, Smb/Sme, Financial Planning, Finance, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2008-11-08
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