10 posts and columns on NCR

AMD Names Lenovo COO Rory P. Read as Its New CEO

in News on August 25, 2011 at 7:45 am PT

The long search for a CEO at chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices has ended just as suddenly as it began.
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AMD: We Will Hire No CEO Before Its Time

in News on July 21, 2011 at 4:49 pm PT

Finding the right CEO takes time and can’t be rushed, AMD says. As the search enters its seventh month, investors may start to get impatient.
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AMD Struggles to Find New CEO

in News on July 21, 2011 at 11:58 am PT

Millions of Americans are unemployed and looking for work, yet at least one well-paying job has gone unfilled this year.

J.P. Morgan Chase Hires Hewlett-Packard’s Former CAO Peter Bocian

in News on July 11, 2011 at 11:05 am PT

Hewlett-Packard’s former Chief Administrative Officer, who left during last month’s management shakeup, has landed at JP Morgan Chase.
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Google Wallet Hardware Partner Raises $24 Million in Capital

in Commerce on June 27, 2011 at 2:50 pm PT

ViVOtech, one of the software and hardware providers behind Google’s mobile payments initiative, has raised $24 million to top off its third round of funding.
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More Executive Moves At HP: Peter Bocian Out, Dave Donatelli Moving Up

in News on June 13, 2011 at 12:58 pm PT

The housecleaning at Hewlett-Packard under its new CEO Léo Apotheker continues. The latest to go, sources say, is chief administrative officer Peter Bocian. An announcement is expected today shortly. Also Dave Donatelli, EVP and head of enterprise servers, may be getting promoted.
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HP’s Own CEO Candidates Unlikely to Seek Freedom After Passover

in News on October 1, 2010 at 9:43 am PT

Hewlett-Packard’s decision to name Léo Apotheker as its new CEO hasn’t gone over particularly well with investors, who dragged the company’s stock into the mud this morning. At $40.50, HP shares are down 3.76 percent as I write this. So how is it going over internally, particularly with those execs who’d been internal candidates for the job?

NCR's DVDPlay Buy Sets Up Battle, but Is Fight Already Over?

in News on December 11, 2009 at 4:28 pm PT

“Ladies and gentlemen, in the red corner, out of Bellevue, Wash….You know this company for its coin counting, but it also operates more than 22,000 Redbox DVD rental machines across the nation. Here to defend its title in DVD dispensing, please welcome….Coinstar!

NCR Sees No Pick Up In Retailer Tech Spend Before 2010

in News on June 15, 2009 at 5:00 am PT

Retailers aren’t likely to resume spending on their IT infrastructure again until at least 2010, according to NCR Chairman and CEO William Nuti. In an interview Friday afternoon with Tech Trader Daily, Nuti said that demand for the company’s point-of-sale retail terminals remains “slow around the world.”

Mind if I Pay These Late Fees With a Few of My Blockbuster Shares?

in News on April 7, 2009 at 8:51 am PT

Blockbuster in a Monday filing told the Securities and Exchange Commission what anyone who’s observed its fast-declining fortunes has known for some time now: The company isn’t sure it can stay in business much longer. In a PricewaterhouseCoopers assessment included as part of its latest 10-K, Blockbuster acknowledged that its financial situation raises “substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern.”
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