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IBM Midmarket Leader: Midmarket, Solution Provider Business Evolving
Recognizing the changes happening within mid-market businesses and looking to help partners make inroads into the lucrative mid-market space, IBM’s new general manager for Midmarket, Andy Monshaw has spent the last nine weeks talking to partners, analysts, clients and others about the challenges out there in the market today. A couple of the more important…
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1. It’s An Advertising Game
1. It’s An Advertising Game Every decision Google makes is in some way related to advertising. The company realizes that Web-based advertising is big business. And the last thing it wants to do is put that in jeopardy for the sake of breaking into another market. No matter the industry or the focus, advertising is…
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Microsoft Sharepoint 2010 Experiencing Slow Adoption
Microsoft SharePoint 2010, was released to manufacturing in April, but, according to a new market survey by BPM vendor Global360, the new version has not yet gained a loyal band of followers in the enterprise. According to the study, 80 percent of current SharePoint deployments are still based on SharePoint 2007, and only 8 percent…
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Avaya Gets Ex-Polycom Video Executive
Avaya has hired former Polycom executive Joe Sigrist as its new vice president and general manager of video. The Avaya executive announcements follows a host of product and solution announcements around the video business last week. Avaya said Sigrist will play a key role in expanding Avaya’s focus on video and business collaboration as well…
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Facebook Suffers Second Outage, Issue Resolved
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept 23 (Reuters) – Facebook experienced technical difficulties on Thursday that slowed its website to a crawl or blocked off access for some of its 500 million users, a glitch that has since been resolved. A separate Facebook feature integrated into other websites, allowing visitors to "like" particular articles or videos, also appeared…
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Oracle Acquisitions May Target Chip Maker
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept 23 (Reuters) – Software giant Oracle Corp (NASDAQ:ORCL) is keen to make more acquisitions to bolster its technology and a microchip company could be a good fit, CEO Larry Ellison said on Thursday. With global mergers and acquisitions in the rise, particularly in a hot U.S. tech sector, investors are speculating on…
