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...Unhedged: That rhymes with the Department of Justice vs Apple case that may be coming in March....
...This company shares a Russian director with “Velada LLC”, which was granted a concession by the Assad regime in Syria to explore for oil and gas....
...This remaking of Japan Inc rests on a critical structural shift: the changing role of banks....
...Other companies to dig deep include Cisco Systems, which has cut its cash holdings from $35bn at the time of the new tax law to only $11bn. Alphabet’s stock buybacks, by contrast, have been paltry....
...Our minds immediately jumped to those US businesses with large buyback programs — Oracle, Boeing, Cisco — but none of them quite fit the profile....
...“I was introduced to John Chambers [the former executive chairman of Cisco Systems] and it developed into a mentoring relationship,” he said....
...Writing in a blog post, he said the digital world needs an “immune system”....
...Next year, the Supreme Court may hear a case, Oil States vs Greene’s Energy, that will challenge the entire constitutionality of the current patent system....
...Or you could buy COSL, its sister company, specialising in oilfield services – with 75 per cent of its business coming from Cnooc....
...Cisco’s market value has faded from $403bn to $144bn; Intel’s from $288bn to $161bn; and EMC’s from $218bn to $51bn....
...Sites are failing to protect their users by updating the key Open SSL software, with 56 per cent of sites using a version that dates back four and a half years, according to a report by Cisco....
...The coalition so far includes Cisco, Dell, Facebook, Fujitsu, NetApp and VMware, with each company contributing $100,000 a year for at least three years....
...But he warned that a shift in customers away from its lucrative express shipping services was expected to continue....
...Exits totalled €51.3bn last year, down from €79.5bn in 2011, led by the sale of Permira and News Corp’s stake in NDS Group to Cisco Systems for €4bn....
...VKontakte has aped many of Facebook’s services but has also suffered from the US rival’s mistakes ....
...Deals such as Oracle’s $1.9bn acquisition of Taleo, the cloud software company, announced in February, and Cisco’s $5bn acquisition of video security company NDS, however, have helped keep tech sector deal...
...His desk in Dallas, where AT&T is headquartered, features several screens displaying stock prices and news and a desktop teleconferencing system developed by Cisco....
...Cisco loses 6,500 jobs in drive to cut costs Cisco Systems is to cut its workforce by 9 per cent as it struggles to improve its performance and refocus on its core network equipment operations, the FT reports...
...Ms Chrapaty previously was the senior vice-president of Cisco’s collaboration software group, where she worked on enterprise collaboration software services and cloud infrastructure....
...Spotify is close to receiving a fresh round of funding led by Russia’s DST that values the Anglo-Swedish digital jukebox service at about $1bn....
...Microsoft, private equity-owned Avaya, Hewlett-Packard and IBM compete with Cisco in the unified-communications market. Siemens Enterprise had revenues of $3.4bn in 2009....
...Avaya specialises in equipment and services that help business customers make phone calls over web-based networks....
...An investment in Pure Digital Technologies, recently sold to Cisco Systems for $590m, has helped, but Mr Spring says: “We need a few more of these exits.”...
...Similarly, Cisco cancelled plans for an exhibit on the show floor and will hold meetings at a nearby hotel. Additional reporting by Chris Nuttall in Las Vegas...
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