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- IBM signs up new client for sustainability consulting
- A financial investment firm from Boston, Jantz Morgan, is turning to IBM's green consulting services arm (aka IBM's business strategy consulting practice) to help it integrate the idea of sustainability into its corporate operations. The focus will go beyond the company's impact on the environment; it will...
- Tags: Sustainability, Consulting Service, Consulting, IBM Corp., Outsourcing, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-10-11
- Asset smart? AMD moves manufacturing off its balance sheet; Bolsters capital
- Asset smart? AMD moves manufacturing off its balance sheet; Bolsters capitalRE: Asset smart? AMD moves manufacturing off its balance sheet; Bolsters caI think it's quite smart personally.foolishJust another CEO desperate to save his bonus. Once you carve up the company, quality goes downhill. The chips will suffer. AMD will be...
- Tags: Balance sheets, Asset management, Semiconductors, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Asset Smart, manufacturing, balance sheet, chip, asset
- Discussion threads 2008-10-07
- Apple: Is it really recession proof? Wall Street says no
- Updated below: Morgan Stanley analyst Kathryn Huberty thinks that Apple can't outrun a slowing economy. And she's betting her estimates on it. In a research note Monday, Huberty downgraded Apple shares from "overweight" to "equal weight" and lowered her price target to $115 from $178 on the...
- Tags: Unit Growth, Recession, Apple Inc., Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-29
- Apple: Is it really recession proof?
- Apple: Is it really recession proof?One thing to keep in mindThe analyst's employer, Morgan Stanley, just had to sell 21% of itself to get needed cash. In other words, they f--ked up bigtime.Other Wall Street "genius" firms include bankrupt Lehman and forced sale Merrill Lynch.Back in the days of...
- Tags: Apple Inc., recession, recession proof
- Discussion threads 2008-09-29
- Dow and AAPL down big in early trading (updated)
- The Dow Jones Industrial Average is down 300 points on a report that consumer spending is down. Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL) is down US$20 (around 16 percent) as of this writing – its largest drop in over 8 months. Apple fell $17.97 to $110.27 at 10:10 a.m. New York...
- Tags: Apple Inc., The Dow Chemical Co., Investment, Finance, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-09-29
- Wall Street's Pain = Tech's Gain
- The Dow is down just 28 points, to 10,993, as this gets typed at midday Friday. Maybe everyone who wanted to head to the exits already has. In meantime, the dysfunction on Wall Street should redound to New York's advantage -- in technology. The reason: Wall Street...
- Tags: New York, Wall Street, Venture Capital, Investment, Workforce Management, Finance, Financing Startups, Human Resources, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-09-26
- Can interactive whiteboards impair learning?
- Guest post: Morgan Panting is at her first year in college equivalent junior in high school. Besides being the bane of my life, she's also an opinionated little madam with her own rants and raves on technology and student life. The other day at college (our equivalent...
- Tags: Interactive Whiteboard, Whiteboard, Teacher, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-09-21
- Oracle first quarter expected to be mixed, but 'not a disaster'
- Oracle steps up to the earnings plate Thursday and could face a rough crowd. Wall Street is battered and has no tolerance for any earnings--even decent reports. No matter what Oracle says every word will be parsed to gauge the demand outlook. Adam Holt, analyst at Morgan...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Application License Revenue, Financial Accounting, Operational Accounting, Government, Financial Planning, Financial Services, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-18
- Profiting from Contagion
- With the global financial contagion continuing to spread today, forcing the 'invisible hand of the market' to roll up multiple titans of industry into single defensive units against the credit crunch, the frothier end of the tech scene parties on. The fall tech conference season is...
- Tags: Innovation, Train, Financial, Compartment, Dennis Howlett, Leadership, Strategy, Management, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2008-09-17
- Adobe: Sizing up Creative Suite 4
- Adobe reports its third quarter earnings after the closing bell Tuesday and analysts will be looking forward to comments about its flagship Creative Suite 4, which will be unveiled Sept. 23. Wall Street is expecting earnings of 46 cents a share excluding charges and 36 cents a...
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Adobe Creative Suite, Operational Accounting, Productivity, Financial Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-16
- Gauging Your Own Risk, On This Black Monday
- Don't you wish you had the same tools at your disposal to assess the riskiness of securities you hold, now that Wall Street is going through a Monday as black or blacker than the one in 1987. Bear Stearns, gone. Lehman Brothers, bankrupt....
- Tags: Asset, Stock, Wall Street, Risk Management, XLoss, Asset Management, Financial Planning, Strategy, Financial Services, Security, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Finance, Management, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-09-15
- Wall Street's meltdown and the potential technology hit
- Wall Street's meltdown and the potential technology hitPC vs MacHmmmm... I wonder how this might affect the feud between Apple and Microshaft. As the economy lurches towards a cliff, many people are going to balk at shelling out $3,000 for a new MacBook Pro. On the other hand, would it...
- Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Investment, potential technology, meltdown, iKe, tax
- Discussion threads 2008-09-15
- Wall Street's meltdown and the potential technology hit
- Folks are waking up Monday to a Wall Street meltdown as Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy, Bank of America acquired Merrill Lynch and companies ranging from Washington Mutual to AIG are on the ropes. While the technology industry is removed from this carnage it will still feel considerable ripples--some tech...
- Tags: Bank Of America Corp., Data Center, Financial, Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc., Financial Service, Goldman Sachs & Co., Wall Street, Morgan Stanley, IPO, Data Centers, Financial Planning, Investment, Financial Accounting, Financial Services, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-15
- Analyst: Dollar daze around the corner for Web giants
- J.P. Morgan analyst Imran Khan said Thursday in a research note that a stronger dollar will take a bite out of search, online travel and e-commerce companies. Khan's call Techmeme largely focuses on the fourth quarter given the dollar's resurgence began in the middle of the third...
- Tags: Google Inc., Web, Dollar, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Operational Accounting, Sales, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
- Palm Treo: The reviews are upbeat; Can a device turn Palm around?
- Palm may have a hit on its hands with the Treo Pro judging from the recent spate of reviews as NDAs ended on Wednesday. The larger question is whether this pricey device can give the company a boost in the bottom line. To wit: ...
- Tags: Device, Palm Inc., Palm Treo, Treo Pro, QWERTY Keyboard, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
- Salesforce quarter on target
- Salesforce quarter on targetIs Salesforce.com the new ADP ... or the next Datapoint?This headline recently appeared in several places across the Web:"Salesforce.com Passes $1 Billion Annual Revenue Mark"THIS IS NOT TRUE. I don't know whether this material misstatement arose from media manipulation or an honest mistake, but it's genesis...
- Tags: Sales force management, payroll solutions, Salesforce.com Inc., Datapoint, Automatic Data Processing Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-08-24
- Report: Intel's Atom chip, Netbooks demand strong
- Demand appears to be stronger than expected for Intel's Atom chip and the netbooks that they power, according to a Citi report. In a research note, analyst Glen Yeung said: Field checks from Japan suggest Intel has ordered 20M Atom flip-chip packages for 3Q08 and 25M...
- Tags: intel atom, intel corp., chip, semiconductors, network technology, processors, hardware, networking, components, larry dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-07
- Sprint: Can it convince customers to stay?
- Sprint had some good news Wednesday: The wireless provider lost 901,000 net customers and only 776,000 post-paid subscribers in the second quarter. Wall Street was expecting more customer defections. For instance, Morgan Stanley was expecting post-paid subscriber losses of 947,000. But let's get real here: Sprint is on the ropes...
- Tags: Sprint Communications, Product Marketing, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Wi-Fi, Wireless, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-06
- Don't trust Google with your data
- Don't trust Google with your dataNo, I don't trust Google BUT...I trust Google more than I trust me. There is a bigger chance that I'll lose my own data than Google will. I don't have the energy nor do I choose to spend the money to constantly backup all of...
- Tags: Backups, cloud computing, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-08-06
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