Arik Hesseldahl in News on May 9 at 7:01 pm PT
Leaner and meaner isn’t always enough. After a company-wide restructuring, growing profits is proving tougher than Cisco CEO John Chambers expected. You know, it don’t come easy.
Numbers
Beth Callaghan in Numbers on May 1 at 4:45 pm PT
With SOPA and PIPA out of the picture, it seemed like digital privacy was less threatened. Then along came the new cybersecurity bill on the block, CISPA.
Voices
Steve D. Jones, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Enterprise on April 30 at 1:45 pm PT
Much has been made of the rivalry between Oracle Corp. and Salesforce.com Inc. in cloud computing. But last week a venture-backed start-up secured one of the richest contracts in business for software to manage sales, marketing and customer relationships.
Kara Swisher in News on April 27 at 11:05 am PT
Our long social patent fight is
not over.
Ten Things About Me
Beth Callaghan in Ten Things About Me on April 26 at 2:13 pm PT
When we asked Jack Dorsey to be the inaugural subject of our new feature, “Ten Things About Me,” we figured he’d be game.
News Byte
Arik Hesseldahl in News on April 25 at 8:12 am PT
IBM said today that it has
reached a deal to acquire Vivisimo, a Pittsburgh-based provider of data-capture and discovery software. Financial terms were not disclosed. Vivisimo has about 120 employees, and its customers include Cisco Systems, Eli Lilly and the U.S. Air Force. This is IBM’s
second acquisition this month, and its fifth so far this year.
Voices
Shara Tibken, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Enterprise on April 24 at 12:22 pm PT
International Business Machines Corp.’s board approved a 13 percent dividend increase and authorized an additional $7 billion to buy back shares as the company looks to return more of its rising cash levels to shareholders.
Arik Hesseldahl in News on April 18 at 7:08 am PT
It used to be a big headache to move workloads between a public cloud provider like Amazon and a privately operated data center. It no longer has to be.
