4 posts and columns on stakeholders

Nokia’s Microsoft Partnership: Does the New Strategy Add Up?

in Mobile on February 11, 2011 at 4:02 am PT

Nokia has already announced the key piece of its strategy–a shift to Windows Phone for its future smartphones. Now the company is set to talk about the financial implications of that and go through the rest of its strategy, which includes a mix of Symbian and even a dash of MeeGo. Mobilized has live coverage of the event, which started at around 4 am PT, or noon here in London.

Cisco to Tandberg: Higher Bid Not Likely

in News on November 2, 2009 at 11:20 am PT

Looks like there may be a bit of truth to reports that Cisco would rather bail on its proposed acquisition of Tandberg than raise its bid for the videoconferencing equipment manufacturer. Remarking today on speculation that Cisco would do just that, Ned Hooper, the company’s chief strategy officer, stressed that Cisco “will always act with fiscal prudence” as it pursues Tandberg.

Cloud Cult

in News on March 30, 2009 at 9:11 am PT

The debut of IBM’s Open Cloud Manifesto has proven more pratfall than grand entrance. When the controversial “standards” document–which calls for the cloud, like the Internet itself, to be open–finally went live this morning, it did so without a number of important signatories. Among them, the Cloud Computing Interoperability Forum–a group that helped draft the document.
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Chapter 11, in Which Circuit City Files for Bankruptcy

in News on November 10, 2008 at 6:12 am PT

The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come just paid Circuit City an early visit, pointing a single bony finger toward a future of insolvency. A week after announcing the closure of a fifth of its stores in the U.S., the struggling retailer succumbed to the inevitable and filed for bankruptcy protection.