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Intel Says Investment Plans on Track
BEIJING (Reuters) – Chip giant Intel Corp’s chief executive said on Tuesday that its investments around the world are proceeding as originally planned, but that some disruption from the global financial crisis was unavoidable. "I would expect to continue all of our investments we have committed to in China and around the world," Chief Executive…
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Better Leads Make Better Channels
Every where you go these days in the channel, you hear the same refrain from the vendors: we’re looking for a better class of partners. What that means is that most of them are not really all that interested in recruiting more partners in volume. Instead, what they really want to do is pick off…
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Wi-Fi Opportunities a Bright Spot for Solution Providers
With the U.S. economy tightening and Wall Street numbers sliding further every week, a few bright spots remain for IT solution providers. One of those is the wireless market, according to research from Chetan Sharma Consulting. The U.S. wireless market grew 40 percent in the second quarter 2008 compared with the same quarter in 2007,…
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Ingram Micro Says SMB Loan Repayments on Track
Defaults on technology financing deals are on the rise, raising concerns about the ongoing availability of credit for such deals, according to a report, but technology distributors and technology vendors with captive financing arms say credit is still available for qualified businesses. Ingram Micro CEO Greg Spierkel told financial analysts during an earnings call last…
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Outsourcing the Talent Shortage
Despite the increase in nationwide unemployment, a recent survey of vendors and solution providers conducted by Channel Insider and Amazon Consulting found a shortage of professional services and technical staff as inhibitors to business performance. More than half of the solution providers said that if their talent shortage were resolved, they could grow their business…