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Intel Slapped with $1.45 Billion Antitrust Fine
Intel received today its sharpest rebuke yet for its alleged manipulative business and antitrust practices at the hands of the European Union, which slapped the California-based chip maker with a record $1.45 billion fine and a cease and desist order to stop anti-competitive activities. The EU fine is the result of an eight-year investigation into…
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NEC Makes Money Back Guarantee Pledge on SANs
NEC is looking to increase its branded storage business by offering a risk-free, 30-day money back guarantee to customers. The guarantee not only offers customers their money back with no questions asked, but also includes de-installation and removal of the equipment, paid freight to ship the equipment back and even data migration to the storage…
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Acer Pulls Back on PC Builds
Acer may have passed Dell in netbook shipments in Q1, but supply chain checks indicate the PC maker is pulling back on manufacturing orders with ODMs. That could spell troubling news for netbooks in Q2. Already an IDC report earlier this week indicated that the computer processors behind netbooks — Intel Atom — saw shipments…
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Tapping into the Economic Stimulus Funds
Cashing in on the Economic Stimulus Package IT solution providers can cash in on the federal economic stimulus package—if they are ready for it. You need to know where the funds are headed, establish customer relationships and maybe even write proposals for grants. Stimulus Package Could Be Shot in the Arm for Solution Providers Don’t…
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IBM CEO (Almost) Says Why IBM Targeted Sun Microsystems Acquisition
IBM (NYSE:IBM) has upped its software and services game to become 80 percent of its business, a big increase from the 50-something percent that software and services used to contribute. But as IBM recounted its strategic moves towards emphasizing software and services putting less of a focus on hardware sales during its IBM Analysts Day…
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Differentiation Drives Value Sales
Futurist Bob Treadway often invokes the “Noah Principle”—as in the biblical figure—when referring to business and economic forecasting. “Predicting rain doesn’t count. Building arks does.” In other words, it’s not enough to sit around and know that an opportunity exists to make money; you must actively pursue the opportunity and provide a reason for the…