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RSS ikeaBill Gates knocked off rich-list perch
News The rest of the top 10 includes metal moguls, an Indian real estate giant and the founder of Ikea, Ingvar Kamprad. Microsoft's unsolicited $44.6bn bid to take over Yahoo! not only led to the ignominy of public rejection when the search giant... [06 Mar 2008]
Caption Competition: Vroom, vroom
Photo The winning entry, from reader Brian Hann, was "Ikea's concept car kit was let down by the instructions. This competition is now closed. Photo credit: Itar-Tass/Vasily Kiyashko [04 Jan 2008]
IKEA bolts on delivery tracking
News IKEA Distribution Services has rolled out a distribution track and trace system that allows couriers to update the central delivery management system from the retailer's 60 delivery vehicles. According to IKEA's UK and Benelux deputy customer... [15 Nov 2007]
Online shopping tops £10bn
News He noted over the last 12 months a number of leading brands, including Arcadia, Dunelm, Ikea, Oasis, Superdrug, Waterstone's and Wickes, have launched transactional websites. Although high street retailers are in the doldrums, internet retailing is... [25 May 2007]
New Hardware Environment Ensures German Credit Company Cuts IT Costs by 30 Percent
White Paper PLUS Finanzservice is a subsidiary of the Swedish furniture company IKEA and the Scandinavian finance group IKANO. PLUS Finanzservice wanted to build on the scalability of its existing environment for credit card management and reduce IT operating... [15 May 2007]
Plus Finanzservice Chooses Red Hat Enterprise Linux
White Paper PLUS Finanzservice GmbH in Wiesbaden, Germany is a subsidiary of Scandinavian giants IKEA and IKANO that specialise in customised concepts in consumer loans and credit cards for retailers and mailorder businesses. [15 May 2007]
Freecycle Diaries: Serendipity at last
Comment I assemble the ragbag assortment of items left on the table and compose what sounds like the ingredients for a BBC home makeover show… x TDK FE90 blank cassette tapes (unopened) x clip frames (1 x 6"x4", 2 x 7"x5") x boxes of glass baubles... [08 May 2007]
Will's Web Watch: To eBay or to FreeBay?
Comment But you only have to trawl through the listings pages of eBay to see people selling items in expectation of making about £5 or less on some TV unit or occasional table which probably cost little more than £30 when they bought it from Ikea a couple... [02 Jan 2007]
Photos of the month - October 06
Photo When the personal hub - here, in the form of a watch on the table - is plonked on it, the Ikea-esque table acts as a thin client, displaying games, movies or other info. HP turns the tables: HP unveiled its vision of the next generation of gadgets... [31 Oct 2006]
Ikea furnishes customers with online shopping
News If the thought of spending the weekend fighting your way around Ikea fills you with horror, then relax: the flat-pack giant is launching an online store. Despite the success of Ikea's bricks-and-mortar stores, the Swedish home furnishings giant has... [10 Oct 2006]
The Weekly Round-Up: 28.07.06
Round-Up Hands up if you'll be going to Ikea this weekend. Now, the Round-Up can't help thinking that Ikea's main - if not only - redeeming quality (other than the meatballs) is its furniture's pricing, and suspects the additional cost of a robot may... [28 Jul 2006]
Oracle Case Study: IKANO Finance
White Paper Business Area Finance is part of IKANO S.A.a holding company owned by the Ingvar Kamprad family who also founded the Swedish furniture giant IKEA. IKANO wanted to lower costs of customer service programs in the six countries by streamlining... [23 Feb 2006]
MySQL CEO: "We're as greedy as anyone else"
Comment Mickos likened MySQL to furniture maker Ikea. Ikea doesn't worry about antique furniture makers," he said. I wonder: Why didn't this happen sooner? he said to silicon.com in a recent interview. Though Mickos has a long-held belief that open source... [22 Nov 2004]
MySQL to Oracle: "They should be concerned about us"
News Mickos likened MySQL to furniture maker Ikea. Ikea doesn't worry about antique furniture makers," he said. MySQL, the open-source software company, has undertaken the formidable task of going head-to-head with database giants Oracle, IBM and... [22 Nov 2004]
Google tops table of brands
News Readers of Brandchannel.com cast their votes, and the top 10 for 2003 came out as: Google, Apple, Mini, Coca-Cola, Samsung, Ikea, Nokia, Nike, Sony and Starbucks. In Europe, the figures showed Nokia losing the previous year's top spot, now sitting... [05 Feb 2004]
