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...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....
...(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....
...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....
...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...
...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...
...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....
...“We believe in this model where we deliver complete computers systems,” he said. “It’s not good when the customer has to buy a bunch of technology components and then has to assemble them.”...
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