Tag: business

  • Business Interest in Apple iPad Rising: Ingram Micro

    Channel Insider Staff

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    LOS ANGELES, Oct 28 (Reuters) – Technology distributor Ingram Micro Inc (NYSE:IM) is seeing increasing interest in Apple Inc’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPad tablet as a business tool, opening up a larger potential market for the device. Greg Spierkel, chief executive of Ingram Micro, said Apple has preferred to sell the iPad to retailers but that the… Read more

  • Microsoft at a Crossroads: Core Business, Cloud, Consumer, Mobile and Innovation

    Channel Insider Staff

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    (Reuters) – Every July, Microsoft Corp invites a sizable Wall Street crowd to its leafy, low-rise campus outside Seattle. Chief Executive Steve Ballmer and his top managers take a half-day to explain where the world’s biggest software company is going, to a generally friendly audience. This year things didn’t go quite according to plan. Ballmer,… Read more

  • Twitter for Business How to Create a Successful Presence

    Twitter for Business How to Create a Successful Presence

    Chris Talbot

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    Twitter for Business How to Create a Successful Presence Tip #1: Plan aheadCreate a strategic plan for implementing your Twitter presence. An effective Twitter feed will require time and patience. No Title Tip #2: Set aside the timeNo Twitter feed is better than an inactive Twitter feed. If you can’t set aside time on a… Read more

  • Ex-Oracle President Joins Infor

    Jessica Davis

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    Business applications provider Infor scored a significant executive coup, hiring Charles Phillips as CEO and member of the board of directors of the Atlanta-based company. Phillips most recently served as president and director of Oracle Corp., vacating that seat and making room for Oracle’s ultimate appointment of ex-HP CEO Mark Hurd. Phillips’ 20 years of… Read more

  • 1. It’s the Third-Party Apps, Folks

    1. It’s the Third-Party Apps, Folks

    Don Reisinger

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    1. It’s the Third-Party Apps, Folks Microsoft’s Windows platform has been extremely powerful in the corporate world for one main reason: the third-party programs. Companies require certain programs in their operations. And the vast majority of those programs are available only to Windows users. That’s a major issue for Apple that it has yet to… Read more

  • Dell to Launch New Ad Campaign, Intro Laptop to Tablet Convertible

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    NEW YORK, Oct 20 (Reuters) – Dell Inc (NASDAQ:DELL) is getting a marketing makeover, trying to shed its image as a cheaper alternative to rivals, including the sleek and highly popular gadgets sold by Apple Inc (NASDAQ:AAPL). The world’s No. 2 PC maker said on Wednesday it will spend "hundreds and hundreds of millions" on… Read more