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Apple iPhone 5 to Launch Oct. 4: Report
Apple CEO Tim Cook will take to a stage Oct. 4 to introduce the new iPhone. That information comes courtesy of AllThingsD, which relied on unnamed sources close to the information for the exact date. For some time, rumors have circulated that Apple plans to unveil the device–popularly dubbed the iPhone 5 –in October. There…
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Arrow ECS Launches Empower Enablement Program for Business Analytics
Arrow ECS is launching a new partner-enablement program, called Empower, to help solution providers sell data center technologies, beginning with business intelligence and analytics solutions from IBM. Under the Empower enablement program, Arrow ECS, a division of Englewood, Colo.-based Arrow Electronics, will offer partners technology solutions, opportunity analyses, education, demand-generation services and business resources to…
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HP Appoints Meg Whitman CEO, Ousts Leo Apotheker
Leo Apotheker is out and Meg Whitman is in as CEO of HP, less than a year after Apotheker was appointed by the company’s board to replace its last ousted CEO, Mark Hurd. HP issued a statement announcing Meg Whitman’s appointment as president and CEO after the markets closed on Thursday. In addition Ray Lane…
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Salesforce Adds Help Desk with Assistly Buy
Salesforce.com leader Marc Benioff has announced that his company is "doubling down" on its Salesforce Service Cloud portfolio by spending $50 million to buy Assistly, an instant customer-service help desk built for the cloud. "(It puts) us at the heart of the new trend of customer service help desk applications that have instant sign up…
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Job Creation the Biggest Challenge for Small Businesses
Despite the recent economic turbulence and a survey that shows 61 percent of small business owners aren’t optimistic about the economic outlook, new data shows a 27 percent increase in new business activity in the second quarter of 2011 versus the same quarter last year. The findings are part of the first Manta SMB Wellness…