4 posts and columns on public sector

Cisco Earnings Beat Estimates, but Only by a Little

in Enterprise on February 9, 2011 at 1:15 pm PT

Air pockets have been transformed into “a period of transition” for CEO John Chambers.

Air Pockets Force Cisco CEO to Turn On Seatbelt Sign

in News on November 11, 2010 at 3:00 am PT

Cisco’s shares took a beating yesterday and they’ll likely take another one today, now that investors have had time to ruminate on the company’s latest earnings, its guidance for the next quarter and CEO John Chambers’s forthright comments about it.

Windows Phone 7: It’s Now or Never

in Mobile on October 11, 2010 at 3:15 am PT

With the launch of Windows Phone 7 today, Microsoft is taking another shot at a market even its CEO, Steve Ballmer, concedes it stumbled in. “We were ahead of this game and now we find ourselves No. 5 in the market,” he said at our D8 conference this past summer. “We missed a whole cycle.” Badly, too.

Cue Anti-Ullyot Facebook Groups in 3 … 2 … 1

in News on October 1, 2008 at 6:52 am PT

“Ted has extremely strong connections with the Republican party, and we think that’s a good thing.” That’s what Elliot Schrage, Facebook’s vice president of communications and public policy, had to say about Ted Ullyot, who joins the company as its vice president and general counsel this month.