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Cisco, Tandberg Acquisition Deal Is Do or Die
Cisco Systems (NASDAQ:CSCO) will announce Dec. 3 whether enough Tandberg (OSL:TAA) shareholders have accepted its offer, effectively enabling Cisco to acquire the video conferencing giant. Cisco says as of Dec. 1 it controlled about 84 percent of outstanding shares of Tandberg, but the company had set a 90 percent condition for its offer to acquire…
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Cisco Adds Support, Products to Small Business Channel Partner Program
Cisco’s celebration of its year anniversary of a $100 million investment in small business comes with some good news for partners. The networking giant says that it is now creating a new partner presales technical support and new hardware advanced-replacement service designed specifically for its reseller channel partners selling to the small business market. In…
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IBM Picks Up Database Activity Monitoring Vendor Guardium
IBM announced plans to acquire database security vendor Guardium for what some sources have pinned at $225 million. The acquisition is a big validation of the database activity monitoring (DAM) market, which has managed to maintain healthy traction within the channel even in the down market. "These products play a critical role in establishing a…
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IBM’s Commitment to Employee Leadership a Lesson for All
If you’ve been in this industry long enough, you know the running joke that every executive you meet — whether he or she hails from a vendor or solution provider — once worked at IBM. It’s not that far from the truth. IBM has in fact nurtured and launched legions of successful technology executives; many…
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Microsoft CFO Liddell to Leave Company
(Reuters) – Microsoft Corp’s Chief Financial Officer Chris Liddell is to leave the company at the end of the year, indicating that he is looking for a bigger job at another company. Liddell, 51, has been CFO at the world’s largest software company since May 2005, after joining from paper and packaging maker International Paper…
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HP Fourth Quarter Shows Higher Profit on Revenue Drop
HP (NYSE: HPQ) pointed to improvements in its printing and PC sales as consumers made the switch to Windows 7, saying that it gained PC market share and its fourth-quarter earnings were in line with previous forecasts. Executives from the technology giant made those observations in a call to analysts following the release of HP’s…