Seeking Alpha (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
Larry Dignan ( ZDNet ) submits: [[AMD]] said Tuesday that it will split off its manufacturing operations in a deal with the Advanced Technology Investment Company of Abu Dhabi. AMD will also receive a capital infusion from Mubadala Development Company, which will wind up owning more than 19 percent of Intel’s smaller rival. When the dealing is done in early 2009, AMD will become a chip...
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Larry Dignan ( ZDNet ) submits: [[SAP]] said Monday its business fell off in September as the company warned that its third quarter wouldn’t meet its previous targets as a broad swath of customers delayed information technology projects. In contrast to SAP’s upbeat outlook in July, the company in a statement said it expects software and software related revenue to be between 1.97 billion...
Seeking Alpha (Free subscription) | yesterday
Larry Dignan ( ZDNet ) submits: Yahoo’s (YHOO) search advertising deal with Google (GOOG), which is expected to increase the company’s ability to monetize its Web pages, has been delayed to give the Department of Justice more time to evaluate it. This Google-Yahoo partnership has raised hackles from Microsoft (MSFT) as well as others, but the larger question is what happens to if the...
Between the Lines (Free subscription) | yesterday
Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Larry Dignan: IBM launches beta of ‘Bluehouse,’ eyes Cisco’s WebEx Matthew Miller: First impressions of the Nokia N96. Gallery (right). Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft extends XP downgrade rights date by six months John Morris: The quad-core laptops are here . . . [...]
Between the Lines (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Posted by Larry Dignan @ 8:25 amInternet ad revenue surged in the first half of 2008, up 15.2 percent to $11.5 billion compared to a year ago, according to the Interactive Advertising Bureau and PricewaterhouseCoopers. Unfortunately, that duo left their crystal balls at home when it comes to the second half outlook.Simply put, knowing what happened to online ad revenue in the first half...
ZD Net (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Sam Diaz: AMD to spin off manufacturing. Techmeme Heather Clancy: The color that shall not be named. AMD's Vertal downplays green credentials, plays up efficiency arguments ...
Tech Beat (Free subscription) | 17 hours ago
... on many sites rather than give a credit card number. So why did eBay pull the trigger now? ZDNet's Larry Dignan and Scot Wingo at eBay Strategies explain that combining BML with PayPal further strengthens eBay as a leader in online payments--and does so before Amazon got around to buying BML itself, after investing in the company late last year. And I'm sure BML's top brass was looking...
Between the Lines (Free subscription) | 19 hours ago
... concerns before they closed the deal. For a deeper look at the implications involved, check out Larry Dignan’s earlier post
ZD Net (Free subscription) | yesterday
October 6th, 2008 Posted by Larry Dignan @ 10:47 amCategories: , , , Tags: , , , , , , , , , SAP said Monday its business fell off in September as the company warned that its third quarter wouldn’t meet its previous targets as a broad swath of customers delayed information technology projects.In contrast to in July, the company said it expects software and software related revenue to...
Between the Lines (Free subscription) | yesterday
October 6th, 2008 Posted by Larry Dignan @ 4:57 amCategories: , , Tags: , , , , , , , , EBay said Monday revamped its corporate portfolio laying off 1,000 workers, or 10 percent of its workforce, and buying online payment company Bill Me Later as well as a Denmark classifieds company.The layoffs were largely expected, but the Bill Me Later purchase for $820 million in cash and $125 million...
Cnet (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
CNET Editor in Chief Dan Farber and ZDNet Editor in Chief Larry Dignan discuss the impact of the economic crisis on the tech sector and the rise of cloud computing.
Cnet (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
CNET Editor in Chief Dan Farber and ZDNet Editor in Chief Larry Dignan discuss the impact of the economic crisis on the tech sector and the rise of cloud computing.
SeekingAlpha Software Stocks (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
Larry Dignan ( ZDNet ) submits: Salesforce.com (CRM) on Friday was downgraded from a buy to a sell by UBS analyst Heather Bellini because software as a service companies are likely to face the same headwinds as larger applications vendors. Meanwhile, Salesforce.com is targeting larger enterprises and that means it faces a slower buying cycle. Bellini’s downgrade, which also came as UBS...
ZD Net Blog (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
Larry Dignan makes a spirited argument as to why Apple should be working much harder on getting Mac kit into the enterprise. I know it's a Friday (afternoon for me) and we've already had one false alarm earlier today that got everyone a-Twitter. Only the other day I managed to spark off a furious debate when I suggested that Mac might make a suitable alternative to Wintel. But this morning...
Seeking Alpha (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
Larry Dignan ( ZDNet ) submits: Does Apple (AAPL) need to cook up an enterprise strategy pronto? Despite enterprise interest in the Mac platform and more importantly the iPhone Apple hasn’t been going out of its way to target corporate users. That move may be a miscalculation given the economy and a struggling consumer. Wall Street has spoken this week and concluded that Apple definitely...
