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- VC funding for Silicon Valley companies: 161 in Q1 2005, 163 in Q2 20095, 187 in Q3 2005
- $2.027 bln was invested by venture capitalists in Silicon Valley companies in Q3 2005, 5.6% growth from Q2 2005. Some 187 companies were funded in Q3 2005, up from 173 in Q2 2005 and 161 in Q1 2005, VentureOne reports.
- Tags: Q3 2005, Q2 2005, Q1 2005
- Blog posts 2005-10-24
- Western European security appliance market up 27% in Q2 2005
- During Q2 2005, close to 102,000 security appliance units were shipped in Western Europe, according to IDC. This was the first time quarterly unit shipments of security appliances in the region exceeded 100,000, following growth of 27% over Q2 2004 and 7% over Q1 2005. Revenue generated from Q2 2005...
- Tags: Q1 2005, Q2 2005, Q2 2004
- Blog posts 2005-09-15
- 188.7 mln mobile phones sold globally in Q2 2005
- The worldwide mobile phone market showed signs of recovery from Q1 2005 due to impressive shipments of entry-level mobile phones to both developing and mature markets. According to IDC, worldwide mobile phone shipments totaled 188.7 mln units in Q2 2005, increasing 7.3% fro, Q1 2005 and 16.3% from Q2 2004.
- Tags: telephone, mobile, mobile phone
- Blog posts 2005-07-29
- Tech layoff numbers down 33%
- Compared to Q1 2005 layoff numbers, 33% fewer tech employees were laid off in Q2 2005, Challenger, Gray & Christmas says. Companies in the telecommunications, computer, electronics and e-commerce industries announced 39,720 job cuts in Q2 2005, down from 59,537 job cuts in Q1 2005.
- Tags: Q2 2005, Q1 2005
- Blog posts 2005-07-15
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- Forrester: Vista is 'New Coke' in the enterprise; Firefox, Apple gain a little
- Vista adoption in the enterprise is mired in the single digits, but is an option for companies that have Windows releases before XP. Nineteen percent of enterprise users use Firefox. And the Mac OS is making some headway in the enterprise, but Apple lacks a coherent strategy to pitch business...
- Tags: Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple Inc., Enterprise, Forrester Research Inc., Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- Apple earnings call fuels rumor mill
- ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das talks to senior editor Sam Diaz about Apple's Q2 report. Topics include new products for the school year, possible price drops, and whether the status of Steve Jobs' health should be disclosed to investors.
- Tags: Apple Inc., Earnings, Financial Accounting, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Finance, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Apple
- Videos 2008-07-22
- Investors give Apple the cold shoulder
- Investors give Apple the cold shoulderProfit taking...Record quarters are hard to follow-up.RE: Investors give Apple the cold shoulderApple's stock price is dependent on the belief that it will deliver exponential growth. Unfortunately the reality is that Apple appears to be close to or hitting a ceiling in terms of sales...
- Tags: Sales strategy, Investment, Financial accounting, Apple Inc., cold shoulder, shoulder, stock
- Discussion threads 2008-07-22
- Libexcel library for MS Visual C++ 2005 (zip)
- Libexcel library for C++ is a static library which provides easy way to generate Excel Spreadsheets (xls-files) in custom applications without Microsoft Excel. Text, numbers, formulas, hyperlinks and images can be written to cells. Aligns, borders, colors, fonts can be used too. Unicode support. This version is the first release...
- Tags: Microsoft Visual C++, Library, Microsoft Corp., Libexcel, Microsoft Excel, Programming Languages, C/C++, Microsoft Development Tools, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Development Tools
- Software downloads 2008-07-22
- Nikon AF-S DX VR 18-200mm f3.5-5.6G IF-ED
- One of the blessings of an SLR can also be a curse: having to choose which lenses to carry, which means finding the right balance between weight and bulk, and having the focal lengths you need. The Nikon AF-S DX VR 18-200mm f3.5-5.6 G IF ED lens offers Nikon shooters...
- Tags: Nikon Corp.
- Product reviews 2008-07-21
- The key barrier to health care reform
- The key barrier to health care reformReducing residenciesHey, at least Georgia [b]has[/b] residencies. Arizona's University Hospital has, thanks to Andrew Weil, turned all of its general practice residencies into NCCAAM-funded "alternative health care" training programs.If you think it's bad now, wait until your insurance only covers "therapeutic touch" and...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Insurance, barrier, health care, residency, physician
- Discussion threads 2008-07-21
- Unintended Consequences and the Future of Maintenance Revenue: SAP Jettisons TomorrowNow
- When Shai Agassi called me in early 2005, he asked me a loaded question: How would I respond if SAP decided to take the fight to Oracle by providing third party maintenance for Oracle's recently acquired PeopleSoft customers? I told him it would be an incredibly aggressive move, but that...
- Tags: Revenue, Maintenance, Oracle Corp., Customer, SAP AG, TomorrowNow, Software As A Service (SaaS), Public Relations, Tools & Techniques, Mergers & Acquisitions, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Management, Investment, Finance, Joshua Greenbaum
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- 2008 Pwnie Award nominees announced
- Well, after getting 134 nominations, and spending countless hours pulling out nominees, the judges for the 2008 Pwnie Awards have announced the final nominees to be voted on. From the site: The final list of nominees for the nine Pwnie Award categories is ...
- Tags: Nominee, Vulnerability, XSS, Attack, Flaw, Dan, XSS Flaw, Lifelock, Security, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- SAP to shut down TomorrowNow; Oracle gets its sacrifice
- SAP's purchase of TomorrowNow in 2005 sounded like a great idea: Undercut Oracle on support and squeeze your biggest rival. And then came Oracle's lawsuit. SAP said Monday that it will wind down the operations of TomorrowNow, which provided third party support for Oracle applications. In a...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., SAP AG, TomorrowNow, Pricing, Marketing Research, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- Facebook sues German 'clone'
- On Friday, Facebook filed suit in California court against studiVZ, a German social net with a look undeniably close to Facebook's. Facebook accuses studiVZ of copying its interface. "We believe that our success thus far has been directly related to the unique look and feel of both...
- Tags: Facebook, studiVZ, Social Networking, Strategy, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Management, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- $7.4 bln of venture capital invested into US startups in Q2 2008
- The pace of US venture capital investments remained steady at $7.4 bln during Q2 2008 despite a wobbly stock market that has made it increasingly difficult for the financiers of new ideas to cash out of startups. The amount of money spread across 990 deals in Q2 2008 was unchanged...
- Tags: Venture Capital, Investment, Finance, Financing Startups, AM
- Blog posts 2008-07-19
- Levi Strauss: SAP rollout 'substantially' hurt quarter
- Levi Strauss: SAP rollout 'substantially' hurt quarterWhoa Nellie.....Through the magic of Google alerts I discovered something I said five (count 'em 5) years ago was used to bolster the notion that an ERP implementation SAP specifically was the cause of Levi-Strauss' revenue problems in Q2 2008.I really would have loved...
- Tags: Enterprise resource planning (ERP), Sarbanes-Oxley, Cultural Change, SAP AG, Levi Strauss, ERP
- Discussion threads 2008-07-19
- Microsoft's search ambitions are its Vietnam
- Is Microsoft fighting an unwinnable war with its online business and search obsession? It's a valid question and one that needs to be asked. At some point you have to wonder if Microsoft's Google envy is its Vietnam. As Mary Jo Foley noted Microsoft's answer to its...
- Tags: Business, Microsoft Corp., Investment, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-18
- Why does open source need a villain?
- Jobs' Apple simply does not pose the same threat to open source Gates' Microsoft did back in 2005, when ZDNet launched this blog. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Steve Jobs, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-07-18
- AMD posts seventh straight quarterly loss
- Today AMD reported a loss of $1.19 billion on revenues of $1.35 billion for Q2 08. Compare this to a year-ago net loss of $600 million on revenues of $1.31 billion. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Tags: Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Quarterly Loss, Operational Accounting, Finance, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-07-17
- AMD CEO Ruiz out; Can Meyer turn it around?
- Updated: AMD CEO Hector Ruiz has stepped down and the chipmaker has named chief operating officer Dirk Meyer as its new leader. The news comes amid the latest financial miss for AMD--a second quarter loss that missed estimates by a wide margin. Meyer's job: Restore credibility. According...
- Tags: Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Meyer, Product Momentum, Asset Management, Research & Development, Processors, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-17
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