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News The CTO for DreamWorks Animation - the studio that created movies including Shrek, Shark Tale and its latest, Over the Hedge - said: "I think I have the coolest job on the planet. Over the Hedge is the studio's most ambitious computer-generated... [23 May 2006]
Opinion: Beware the multi-sourcing pitfalls
Comment Businesses can hedge their bets by utilising a basket of expert suppliers, rather than a single behemoth. With the dust barely settled on the outsourcing mega-deal obituaries, the hype around the trend for using multiple suppliers - multi-sourcing... [21 Apr 2006]
Has C&W won the Energis bidding war?
News With debts of around £700m, Energis' future lies in the hands of the investment banks, hedge funds and other bodies which hold Energis bonds and debts. Cable & Wireless (C&W) and Thus have clashed in a battle to buy fellow telco Energis, as both... [15 Aug 2005]
Telecoms takeover frenzy as Thus targets Energis
With debts of around £700m, Energis' future lies in the hands of the investment banks, hedge funds and other bodies that hold Energis bonds and debts. Thus and Cable & Wireless (C&W) have clashed in a battle to buy fellow telco Energis, as both... [15 Aug 2005]
Symantec shareholders back Veritas takeover
Now it's up to them to execute and deliver on the plans they laid out," John Paulson, whose hedge fund Paulson & Co.owns more than 21 million shares of Symantec, said in an interview on Thursday. Symantec shareholders voted on Friday to approve the... [27 Jun 2005]
Inflation, Inequality and Social Conflict
White Paper Agents' income levels determine their ability to hedge against the effects of inflation. This paper presents a political economy model of inflation as a result of social conflict. Agents are heterogeneous in terms of income. [20 May 2005]
Sun CEO blasts buyout rumour
News On Friday, BusinessWeek quoted an unnamed hedge fund manager as saying McNealy is considering taking Sun private with the aid of Silver Lake Partners: an investment firm that bought out Seagate Technology and eventually relaunched it as a publicly... [03 May 2005]
McNealy shoots down Sun buyout rumours
BusinessWeek on Friday quoted an unnamed hedge fund manager as saying McNealy is considering taking Sun private with the aid of Silver Lake Partners, an investment firm that bought out Seagate Technology and eventually relaunched it as a publicly... [29 Apr 2005]
Eastleigh Borough Council: Using Local Area Committees
White Paper This includes: Chandlers Ford and Hiltingbury; Bishopstoke, Fairoak and Horton Heath; Eastleigh; Hedge End, West End, Botley and Bursledon; Hamble-le-Rice and Hound. Eastleigh Borough Council has five Local Area Committees (LAC's). [28 Apr 2005]
Funds firm faces patent suit
A leading US trading software firm has filed a lawsuit against UK hedge-fund company Man Group in the row over claims that a patent awarded last year entitles it to a share of trading revenue on futures exchanges. [18 Apr 2005]
Futures traders accused of software patent breach
News A leading US trading software firm has filed a lawsuit against UK hedge-fund company Man Group in the row over claims that a patent awarded last year entitles it to a share of trading revenue on futures exchanges. [15 Apr 2005]
A Hedge-Based Approach to Fuzzy System Learning: A White Paper
White Paper This paper reports on work done by the JWARS office to create autonomous, heterogeneous agents for the purposes of better differentiating unit behaviors at the lower echelons of JWARS. The agents represent a wide range of military units and use a... [05 Jan 2005]
Symantec buys Veritas
Thompson was also emphatic the merger was not a defensive move to hedge against any future weakness in consumer security software sales, which currently account for half of Symantec's revenue. The combined company will form a powerhouse in security... [17 Dec 2004]
An Army Strategy for Homeland Security
White Paper Given the potential but undefined threat posed to the U.S.homeland by terrorists, the Army needs to decide whether it should hedge against the risk of not being adequately prepared. RAND researchers posed five plausible scenarios and potential Army... [13 Dec 2004]
PalmOne: Still loves PDAs, no word on other OSes
News Brian Blair, an analyst at San Diego-based hedge fund Dorado Capital, reckons testing at PalmOne paves the way for a launch of a Microsoft-based Treo smart phone some time next year. Despite seeing ever-increasing sales of its smart phones, PalmOne... [05 Nov 2004]
