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Inside Dell's Scorched-Earth PC and Server Price-War Plan
Dell, the struggling computer maker that plans to go private in a leveraged buyout transaction, has a plan to compete aggressively to retake some of its lost share in the market for personal computers...
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More Questions About HP's Business for CEO Meg Whitman
When you start talking to HP CEO Meg Whitman about what’s going on at the company, she has a lot to say, because there’s just so much going on. And you get the sense that she relishes the raw challenge...
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Cumulus Networks Comes Out of Stealth With Linux for Data-Center Networks
Startup Cumulus Networks popped out of stealth mode today to announce that it has created a version of the Linux operating system for building out software-defined networks in the data center. Backed...
View ArticleCisco to Acquire Composite Software for $180 Million
Networking giant Cisco Systems says it will spend $180 million to acquire Composite Software, a company that specializes in data virtualization software and services based in San Mateo, Calif....
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Cisco Pays $2.7 Billion for Security Player Sourcefire
Networking giant Cisco Systems said today that it will pay $2.7 billion for Sourcefire, a security equipment company based in Columbia, Md. The deal was announced in a corporate blog post. Sourcefire...
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Continued Strength Expected From Cisco's Q4 Results
Networking giant Cisco Systems will report its quarterly earnings tomorrow after the markets close for trading in New York. Analysts are expecting a relatively strong quarter and an upbeat outlook....
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Cisco's Q4 Results Beat Street Expectations, but Not by Much
Quarterly results from networking giant Cisco Systems have just crossed the wires, and they’re good, but perhaps not good enough. Cisco reported per-share earnings of 52 cents on sales of $12.4...
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Cisco Plans to Cut 4,000 Jobs Starting This Quarter
Cisco Systems just said it plans to eliminate about 4,000 jobs starting next quarter. Word of the cuts came on a conference call with analysts along with the forward-looking guidance for the quarter...
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Cloud Phone Service RingCentral Files for $100 Million IPO
RingCentral, the cloud-based phone service for businesses, just filed for an initial public offering with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. It has proposed using the ticker symbol RNG. While...
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How the Attack on NY Times and Twitter Domains Could Have Been Worse
Fair warning: The domain-hijacking attacks carried out by the Syrian Electronic Army against the New York Times and Twitter yesterday could have been worse, according to a security expert who has...
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After Q2 Results, Everyone Likes Salesforce Again
It looks like shares of Salesforce.com are going to open higher this morning. In pre-market trading today, they spiked by more than three dollars or more than eight percent to $47.26 as of 8:45 AM New...
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Cisco Catches Flash Madness With Whiptail Acquisition
Cisco Systems just announced that it will pay $415 million for Whiptail, a maker of solid-state virtual-memory systems. It makes the second acquisition in as many days of a company using flash-memory...
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Fusion-io Rises on Speculation It Might Be the Next Flash Company to Sell Out
Shares of Fusion-io are rising like crazy today in the wake of a pair of acquisitions of two competitors, and speculation by an analyst that it could be next. Fusion shares rose by more than $2, or...
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Videoconferencing Startup Blue Jeans Network Raises $50 Million
Last summer, I did a videoconference that was notable for all the different ways that the people involved with it sought to connect. I was at home in my apartment in New York, using Skype. Other people...
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BlackBerry's Busy Weekend of Shareholder Lawsuits and Buyout Chatter
If it seems as though things couldn’t get any more difficult for the beleaguered Canadian smart phone company BlackBerry, they appeared to do precisely that this weekend. On Friday came the news of a...
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Cisco Checks on the Cloud and Confirms That It's Getting Bigger
Ever heard of a zettabyte? I’m going to use that word a few times in this story, so it will probably help if I define it first. You know its smaller siblings, the gigabyte, the terabyte, and maybe...
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Cisco Probably Took a Hit From the Federal Shutdown
Shutterstock / Andrea Izzotti Networking giant Cisco Systems will report its quarterly results after the markets close for trading in New York later today. While it’s expected to turn in relatively...
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Cisco Falls After Hours as Q1 Sales Come Up Short, Despite an Earnings Beat
Cisco Systems just reported its quarterly earnings and, as expected, they’re a little light. Earnings per share for the quarter were 53 cents on revenue of $12.1 billion. The bottom line is better than...
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Cisco Warns That 2014 Is Going to Be a Tough Year
Shares of Cisco Systems fell by more than 10 percent in after-hours trading after the company gave guidance for the coming quarter that fell considerably short of what analysts had expected. Earlier...
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What's Next for GPU Chips? Maybe the Network.
Over the last few years it has been interesting to see where in the computing landscape graphics processors like those turned out by Nvidia have shown up. Remember that GPU chips were designed and...
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Stealth Networking Startup VIPtela Raises $33 Million From Sequoia
There’s a new stealth mode company to start watching in the software-defined networking space, and it is already raising some significant money. Sources familiar with the matter tell AllThingsD that...
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Cisco Is Keeping Its TV Set-Top Box Business, and That's That
Shares of networking giant Cisco Systems closed at their lowest levels in seven months after CEO John Chambers and other executives met with analysts in New York. At the meeting, CFO Frank Calderoni...
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Cisco to Spend $4 Billion to Create 1,700 Jobs in Canada
The love affair between Cisco Systems and the nation of Canada got a little more serious today: They’re now going steady. The networking giant announced plans to spend $4 billion over 10 years to boost...
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Shareholder Suit Accuses IBM of Concealing an Anti-Snowden Backlash in China
Here’s a new twist on the whole NSA spying controversy that continues to unfold: Shareholder lawsuits against companies that suffer sales declines in international markets as suspicion of American tech...
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You Won't Believe All the Crazy Hardware the NSA Uses for Spying
Over the weekend we learned a lot about the National Security Agency’s Access Network Technology, or ANT, division, that, in the words of Der Spiegel, the German news magazine that first disclosed it...
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