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Yahoo!'s Yang steps down as CEO
News When the board asked me to become CEO and lead the transformation of the company, I did so because it was important to re-envision the business for a different era to drive more effective growth. In a... [18 Nov 2008]
Apple storms past RIM in smartphone race
News Analyst firm Canalys released market share stats on Thursday showing strong growth for the smartphone market even as the worldwide economic situation takes a turn for the worse. Photos: Second Life gets down to... [07 Nov 2008]
Seagate: We won't do flash, it doesn't pay
News Solid state drives have been gaining ground in the laptop market, with analyst IDC recently predicting the market will grow at a compound annual growth rate of 85 per cent from 2008 to 2010. The world's largest hard... [05 Nov 2008]
Time off for Dell workers… unpaid
News The company recently reported a 17 per cent dip in earnings after a year of showing signs of good growth. The request made to employees is also an effort to avoid possible layoffs, according to a report in the Austin... [05 Nov 2008]
BT Global Services head resigns
News BT said in a statement: "We expect revenue growth in this division will remain strong, up 15 per cent year on year, but EBITDA [earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation] of around £120m will be... [03 Nov 2008]
London: Wi-fi capital of the world
News But growth in the number of access points has slowed in the UK capital, standing at 72 per cent for 2008 compared to 160 per cent in 2007. Security was not so rosy in London, with one fifth of all... [28 Oct 2008]
RIP voice, texting - long live bio-sensing bangle phones
News According to Ellis, the shift to open mobile platforms - such as Google's Android platform and Symbian's decision to go open source - is the key trend driving smart phone growth and accelerating the development of mobile... [21 Oct 2008]
Has tech got the power to punch through the crunch?
News Tech companies haven't experienced the hiring binge that occurred in the late 1990s, when a combination of internet investment, repair work on older computer systems to deal with Y2K transition issues, and massive investment in... [21 Oct 2008]
Virtualisation: At risk from attack
News The key problem with the growth in the adoption of server virtualisation, he explained, is the lack of control - or VM sprawl - in the data centre. While actual hypervisor breaches are still rare, there is still the... [20 Oct 2008]
Just one mega-deal as outsourcing contracts plummet
News Despite this the firm remains positive about future prospects worldwide, with Peter Allen, partner and managing director at TPI saying in a statement: "We still believe that outsourcing relationships will be called upon to achieve... [17 Oct 2008]
Top 10 strategic techs for 2009
News Green regulation is on the rise and this especially has the potential to seriously limit how businesses build data centres so organisations should have alternative plans for capacity growth. David Cearley, vice president... [15 Oct 2008]
CIOs having night sweats over job security
News Europe will experience negative growth in 2009, the United States and Japan will be flat," he said in a statement. But even if budgets are not scuppered on a post-dot-com scale, the analyst believes IT chiefs must take a... [14 Oct 2008]
Infosys posts strong Q2 results
News Second-quarter revenues were $1.2bn, while year-on-year overall growth was 16.7 per cent. BG Srinivas, Head of European Operations at Infosys, told silicon.com sister site ZDNet.co.uk on Friday that Infosys's... [13 Oct 2008]
Zavvi says it's time to get net-savvy
News We are coming from a fairly low base of business, so that is the level of growth we need to see to justify the investment we've made," he said. However a site relaunch in July 2007 has resulted in... [09 Oct 2008]
Credit crisis sees eBay slash 1,000 jobs
News It would also plough the proceeds into higher-growth areas like PayPal and classifieds. This is a time when eBay is putting its foot on the gas in terms of investing for future growth. Auctions... [07 Oct 2008]
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