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Mayor Bloomberg: NYC Challenges Silicon Valley for Tech Startups
NEW YORK New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said he believes New York could soon replace Silicon Valley as the go-to location for high-tech startups to sprout. Speaking at IBM s THINK Forum here, also known as “THINK: A Forum on the Future of Leadership,” Bloomberg said New York has replaced Boston as the second-place…
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Oracle to Focus on High-End Server Business
When Oracle executives were positioning the company to buy Sun Microsystems in late 2009, they stressed that the plan was to abandon the low-end commodity server business, instead focusing on high-end systems bundled with Oracle’s own enterprise software. During a conference call Sept. 20 with analysts and journalists to announce fiscal first-quarter 2012 results, Oracle…
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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…