Five Questions for Cisco Systems CEO John Chambers

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.
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Cisco Posts Results In Line With Street Expectations

Investors don’t like it one bit.
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Falcone Agrees to Step Aside

Hedge-fund manager Philip Falcone agreed to step aside eventually as the public face of his LightSquared Inc. venture, a concession that may keep the wireless-telecommunications company from defaulting on its debt, people familiar with the negotiations said.

IT Spending This Year? Almost Four Triiilllion Dollars.

Gartner says growth is looking good this year overall; just watch out for that currency effect.
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Cisco Acquires Israeli Video Software Firm NDS for $5 Billion

Cisco has confirmed a reported deal to acquire NDS, which specializes in software for video set-top boxes.
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Apple Asked Standards Body to Set Rules for Essential Patents

Apple Inc. has asked a telecommunications standards body to set basic principles governing how member companies license their patents, an increasingly contentious topic for rivals in the smartphone industry.

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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Gartner Slashes 2012 Global IT Spending Forecast

Research firm Gartner just knocked down its growth forecast for global tech spending by nearly 1 percent. It may not sound like much, but it amounts to slowdown worth about $100 billion.
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Huawei’s John Roese on the Telecom Giant That Wants to Roar: The Full AsiaD Interview (Video)

The Chinese company is the world’s second-largest maker of telecommunications and networking gear — and you’re about to hear a lot more from it going forward.
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John Roese on Redefining Huawei and the Democratization of Smartphones

Today, Huawei is a $29 billion company. Ten years from now, it hopes to be at $100 billion. The head of Huawei’s North American R&D team is one of the guys charged with making that happen.
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Apple's D.C. Lobbying Efforts Get Fierce