Seven Questions for Cisco Systems CEO John Chambers

In an AllThingsD interview, Cisco Systems’ CEO talks about the company’s turnaround, the hurdles ahead and how badly he wants to bring his company’s cash home.
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Cisco Reports: It’s Getting Better

The turnaround appears to be taking hold as sales and profits both beat analyst’s forecast. Also? A dividend boost to make shareholders happy.
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Will the Turnaround at Cisco Systems Stick?

Is the restructuring by CEO John Chambers at Cisco Systems taking hold? Today’s earnings announcement should tell the tale.
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Networking Start-Up Nicira Wants to Mess Up Cisco and Juniper’s Business

Watch out Cisco, Juniper and other networking vendors. Your business model is about to get disrupted by Nicira, which is coming out of stealth mode today.
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Cisco Fellow Bruce Davie Joins Stealth Start-Up Nicira

All these hires are making the secretive networking start-up look ever more interesting by the day.
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Intel to Buy Some QLogic Networking Assets

Intel Corp. agreed to acquire QLogic Corp.’s InfiniBand business for $125 million in cash, giving it networking technology for the growing and competitive supercomputer market.

Can This Broken Robot Help Save Cisco Systems?

A new advertising campaign aims to help Cisco Systems reintroduce itself to its customers, and remind them what it does best.
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News Byte

LinkedIn Nabs Dow Jones Exec in Asia

LinkedIn has hired Olivier Legrand to run its advertising business in the Asia Pacific region, where the business networking site has more than 20 million members. Legrand has most recently been running digital initiatives in Asia for News Corp.’s Dow Jones, including The Wall Street Journal.

If 2011 Was a Year to Forget, 2012 Looks Like More of the Same

2011 was tough year on many tech stocks, with only a few exceptions. And 2012 doesn’t look much better, but analyst Brian Marshall says there are some important trends to watch.
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Cisco Lays Out Aggressive Strategy to Capture More Cloud Business

Networking giant Cisco Systems has been talking for awhile now about its intentions to become a big supplier of cloud infrastructure. Today it got specific, with a portfolio of products it collectively calls CloudVerse.
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