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- Yahoo's dwindling search share: Time to panic?
- Typical MicrosoftThis is normal business practice for MS. Partner up with someone, take what they need, then discard them.Ask anyone from RealNetworks how their partnership went.It's about search.Wow, it looks like the volume of search users use the search engine that delivers better results.Google search is better than Bing...
- Tags: E-mail, SEARCH, Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Bing
- Discussion threads 2009-11-18
- Polycom: A potential takeover target following Cisco-Tandberg deal
- With Cisco gobbling up Tandberg for $3 billion and bolstering its video conferencing lineup all eyes turn to Polycom, another market leader that looks ripe to be acquired. If not, Polycom is expected to be able to hold its own against Cisco. Cisco's acquisition of Tandberg gives...
- Tags: Cisco Systems Inc., Polycom Inc., Tandberg, Marchetti, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-10-01
- Could Microsoft fix Windows Mobile by buying Palm?
- Nokia remain the strongest by far."The platforms in the strongest position are the Apple iPhone and RIM?s BlackBerry."Ex-US sales don't back that up I'm afraid. Nokia still dominate despite being behind technologically in terms of interface. With the release of the N900 and the X series this will...
- Tags: Mobile operating systems, Operating systems, Handhelds, PDAs, Mobile applications, default control, Palm Web OS, Palm Inc., Microsoft Windows Mobile, Microsoft Corp., WinMo, Nokia Corp., Microsoft Windows, mobile
- Discussion threads 2009-09-28
- Dell and Perot: What this means
- Look at more than the upside to any acquisition Dell and Perot are getting married. This acquisition puts approximately 23,000 Perot services employees in with Dell. (see Larry Dignan's detailed post on the transaction ) (here's an InfoWorld post, too) From the macro view,...
- Tags: Acquisition, Dell Computer Corp., Perot, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-09-21
- Are IT grads learning the right skills?
- Not university level informationThe type of information they are referring to is not something that applies to a university level of education. What they are asking for is the specific skills on the implementation of technologies. For example, I can talk all day about certificates and the use of them...
- Tags: Businesses, IT Grad, information technology, developer
- Discussion threads 2009-09-14
- Open source living on VC time
- The acquisition of SpringSource by VMWare, combined with Friendfeed's acquisition by Facebook, clears the decks for Benchmark Capital to make new investments. Kudos to the venture capital VC firm's general partner Peter Fenton, who shepherded both success stories through the venture capital process. The...
- Tags: Open Source, Attention, Venture Capital, Investment, Finance, Financing Startups, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-08-11
- VMware's SpringSource purchase sparks head scratching; Still doesn't solve the Microsoft problem
- VMware's purchase of SpringSource for $420 million has sparked a fair amount of head scratching among analysts who argue the virtualization software company paid too much and still failed to solve its Microsoft problem. Global Equities analyst Trip Chowdhry noted that SpringSource had roughly $10 million in...
- Tags: VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., SpringSource, Virtualization, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-08-11
- How Earnouts are Costing Huron its CEO, CFO and CAO
- Earnouts are those interesting residual matters that pop up in some acquisitions. An earnout exists to provide a transition period between some of the acquired firm’s owners and the new owner/management team. Earnouts are certainly valuable for an acquirer when there are key persons in the acquired organization who can...
- Tags: Shareholder, Acquisition, Payment, Financial, Performance, Earnouts, Earnout, Huron Consulting Group, Company, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Operational Accounting, Financial Accounting, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-08-02
- 2009 Small Business Hiring Guide
- CareerBuilder works with both the world's largest companies and smallest businesses, providing resources for everything from employment to talent acquisition and best-practice trainings. It is important to start thinking about your hiring in terms of a talent life cycle. You must dedicate resources, time and care...
- Tags: Talent, CareerBuilder, Brand, Small Business, Workforce Management, Human Resources
- White papers 2009-07-16
- CA comes to Cassatt's rescue
- It appears that CA has come to the rescue and has acquired the intellectual property and some of the staff of Cassatt (see CA's statement on this acquisition). I spoke with a number of people, including my good friend and fellow IDC alumni, Bill Peterson, and have come to the...
- Tags: Cassatt Corp., Computer Associates International Inc., Sales Strategy, Workforce Management, Intellectual Property, Sales Force Management, Sales, Human Resources, Research & Development, Business Operations, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2009-06-03
- News to know: Windows 7; Google Wave in enterprise; SaaS in Europe; Wordcamp;
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Andrew Mager: Live: Wordcamp 2009 Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft: No more three-app limit in Windows 7 Starter Edition Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Microsoft sees sense,...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Software-as-a-service, Data Center, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Data Centers, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Storage, Software As A Service (SaaS), Hardware, Data Management, Emerging Technologies, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-06-01
- Consum Cooperativa Improves Human Resources Management With Centralized Data Access
- Consum Cooperativa wanted to provide an integrated Human Resources HR management solution that aligns with corporate personnel strategy and develop HR management using management by competencies to ensure aligning people with business objectives. The challenge was to implement a variable compensation system based on goal achievement and performance evaluation and...
- Tags: Human Resources, Oracle Corp., HRM, Data Access, Consum Cooperativa, Human Resource Management (HRM)
- Case studies 2009-06-01
- OneWire - Talent acquisition in the Finance sector
- What happens when bankers can make their 'true connection' online? Hiring/Recruiting solutions are a varied lot. They almost have to be as the methods that people use to find jobs, learn of jobs, etc. rarely match the ways that employers seek new employees. Add in other issues...
- Tags: Acquisition, Brian Sommer, Finance, Human Resources, Investment, Job, Mergers & Acquisitions, OneWire, Recruitment & Selection, Solution, Talent, Workforce Management
- Blog posts 2009-05-31
- Is MySQL done under Oracle or is there a fork in its future?
- With Oracle acquiring Sun Microsystems, it also acquires MySQL, the poster child for open-source applications. (Not to mention Solaris, which Sun says is a larger Linux distribution than Red Hat.) Vivek Ranadive, CEO of Tibco Software, says the term "Oracle and open source has always been an...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., MySQL, Open Source, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2009-04-23
- Sun CEO's full e-mail to staff; 'not the end of the road'
- Not a day too late after the Oracle-Sun deal was announced, Jonathan Schwartz, Sun's chief executive, wrote employees a reassuring internal email. Here's the full text: This is one of the toughest emails I’ve ever had to write. It’s also one of the...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., Data Centers, Mergers & Acquisitions, E-mail, Corporate Law, Strategy, Corporate Governance, Leadership, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Investment, Finance, Online Communications, Business Operations, Management, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-04-22
- Oracle-Sun: an enterprise catastrophe
- Oracle acquires Sun- that came out of left field. Well not quite. Fellow Irregular Josh Greenbaum talked about Oracle 'completing the picture' with a Sun acquisition back in 2003. Yes - SIX years ago. Putting on my curmudgeon's curmudgeon hat I can't help but think this is...
- Tags: Acquisition, Hewlett-Packard Co., Oracle Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Open Source, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-04-20
- Sun following the IBM deal collapse: Customer confusion en route
- Sun following the IBM deal collapse: Customer confusion en routeThank You Scott MacNealy!In this case you need to look at what the CEO wanted. He wanted to give away the Brand for money. It was only going to give a one time payday, no matter how big.Most CEOs would go...
- Tags: Sun Solaris, Operating systems, Sun Microsystems Inc., IBM Corp., following-The
- Discussion threads 2009-04-06
- "No more free bugs"? There never were any free bugs
- Vulnerability researchers have always extracted value out of their work, even before there was a monetary value placed on exploits. Security researchers at last week's CanSecWest conference dramatically announced their new philosophy that software vulnerabilities should no longer be given away. The movement cites the existence...
- Tags: Researcher, Vulnerability, Exploit, Security, Adam O'Donnell
- Blog posts 2009-03-24
- Upgrade talent for the economy to come
- Bad pathologies to avoid in new employees One of the best pieces of advice that came from last week’s IDC Directions conference was an almost throwaway comment from one of the IDC executive speakers: Start planning for the recovery. That’s actually...
- Tags: Talent, Firm, Self-starters, Malcolm Gladwell, Stars, Workforce Management, Human Resources, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-03-10
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