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Microsoft CEO Surprised at Yahoo Deal Reception
(Reuters) – Microsoft Corp’s chief executive tried to persuade skeptical investors on Thursday that its 10-year Web search partnership with Yahoo Inc is good for both companies. Shares of Yahoo slumped 12 percent after the long-expected deal was announced on Wednesday, and fell more than 3 percent on Thursday. Microsoft shares rose only slightly, puzzling…
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CompTIA Aims for Inclusion at Breakaway
When solution providers descend upon Las Vegas next week for the annual CompTIA Breakaway conference, they’ll find the event far more open and inclusive than previous years. By design, CompTIA has gone to great lengths to open one of the largest channel confabs to more voices and discussions that will help attendees improve their businesses.…
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Gartner Survey Find Positive Software Spending in 2010
Although organizations are continuing to drive down their total IT budgets in 2009 from 2008, in 2010 worldwide software budgets will increase, according to a survey by Gartner Inc. The survey showed that organizations plan to increase their software budgets on average 1.53 percent in 2010. In its report dubbed, report "User Survey Analysis: Software…
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Intuit Evolves Beyond Packaged Software
Intuit has come a long way from the days of shrink-wrapped QuickBooks. Last October, the personal finance software maker jumped on the software-as-a-service bandwagon with the Intuit Partner Platform, a cloud-based platform that serves up its applications and those from third-party partners to small business customers. The company also unveiled Federated Applications, a native stack…
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Health Care Unprepared to Secure Digital Health Records
A new report on the state of security within health care shows that these organizations are unprepared to meet the increased risks to their information in the wake of coming requirements by the federal government to push adoption of digital patient records. Released last week, the 2009 Global Security Study for Life Sciences and Health…
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Koutavas Named President of ASCII Group
The ASCII Group, a collaborative community of solution and service providers, announced this week the promotion of Jerry Koutavas to president. Koutavas has served as the organization’s vice president of business development for more than a decade and has been a driving force behind ASCII’s annual Success Summits series—local and regional training and networking events…