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...Xerox wants to give HP’s board its walking papers We’re all guilty of overusing the David v Goliath trope but in the case of Xerox and HP, it really does apply....
...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”....
...Thanks to a series of court rulings since the mid-2000s, such as eBay v MercExchange in 2007, Mayo Collaborative Services v Prometheus Laboratories in 2012 and Alice Corp v CLS Bank in 2014, and the subsequent...
...US court told PwC cut corners in Colonial audit Control+C, Control+V....
...“I think, again, we have a system, a strong system, of checks and balances. Certainly when he is elected, if he is elected, I would hope that he will surround himself with very knowledgeable people.”...
...ULA — a joint venture of Boeing and Lockheed Martin — has been forced to develop a new system because its current main rocket, the Atlas V, depends on the Russian-built RD-180 engine....
...(New York Times) Cisco Systems’ quarterly sales and profit forecasts exceeded analysts’ estimates, an early sign that the company is overhauling its product line fast enough to stay ahead of shifts in the...
...Cisco’s market value has faded from $403bn to $144bn; Intel’s from $288bn to $161bn; and EMC’s from $218bn to $51bn....
...The engines — powered by methane, a new propellant for US-built engines — will initially power a similar rocket to the Atlas V that ULA powers with Russian-built RD180 engines....
...In the 1919 US court case of Dodge v Ford, the Michigan court ruled that the purpose of a business is to return profits to shareholders....
...Du v. Cisco, filed in 2011, is pending in the US district of Maryland....
...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....
...Cisco and IBM are already Skolkovo partners, as are smaller ventures such as US Parallels, a cloud technology specialist, and Moscow-based Frontier Ventures, a venture capital fund....
...Dattaraj V. Salgaocar (V. M. Salgaocar Group) Harsh Pati Singhania (J.K. Organisation) Krishen Sud (Sivik Global Healthcare, Inc.)...
...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...
...Talent, which is Stockholm’s key commodity due to its world-class education system and history of high-tech engineering, is also problematically mobile....
...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....
...The Microsoft debacle also led to Yahoo’s founder, Jerry Yang, stepping down as chief executive in favour of Ms Bartz, a fellow director at Cisco Systems whom he had recruited....
...With its next-generation Xfinity software, Comcast is moving towards a cloud-based software system that will allow it to maintain more control over the operating systems and include applications such as...
...SanDisk rose 2.4 per cent to $38.52, and even embattled sector heavyweight Cisco was among the top gainers in the S&P 500, up 2.6 per cent at $16.29....
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