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Adobe reports billion-dollar quarter

...Adobe Systems said on Monday that it had recorded its first ever billion-dollar quarter, beating Wall Street estimates. For the fourth quarter, the company... Read more

21 December, 2010 by Sam Diaz

Intel announces billion-dollar investment in US facilities

...future of Intel and America. The most immediate impact of our multi-billion-dollar investment will be the thousands of jobs associated with building a... Read more

20 October, 2010 by Sam Diaz

The Eight Billion Dollar Verb

The deal's done, the strategy revealed, the entrails available for augury. None of this stops everyone asking the... Read more

10 May, 2011
Eine <endeca_term>Billion Dollar</endeca_term> 2.6.9

Eine Billion Dollar 2.6.9

...das durch Zins und Zinseszins in fast 500 Jahren auf ber eine Billion Dollar angewachsen ist. Der Erbe dieses Vermgens, so heit es im Testament... Read more

24 August, 2010

Apple grabs Google's billion-dollar brand crown

As Nokia and BlackBerry slide... Read more

9 May, 2011 by Natasha Lomas
Click Trajectories: End-to-End Analysis of the Spam Value Chain

Click Trajectories: End-to-End Analysis of the Spam Value Chain

...a business. While it has engendered both widespread antipathy and a multi-billion dollar anti-spam industry, it continues to exist because it fuels a... Read more

7 March, 2011
Sensor Web Design Studies for Realtime Dynamic Congestion Pricing

Sensor Web Design Studies for Realtime Dynamic Congestion Pricing

Traffic Congestion is a multi-billion dollar national problem and worsening every year with population growth and increase... Read more

1 January, 2011
Application Portfolio Rationalization Roadmap for Easing Integration During Acquisition

Application Portfolio Rationalization Roadmap for Easing Integration During Acquisition

A billion dollar organization headquartered in the US faced the challenge in which having... Read more

1 January, 2011
SharePoint deployment: Pitfalls of a pioneer

SharePoint deployment: Pitfalls of a pioneer

...of SharePoint users out there. Microsoft reckons that the product is a billion-dollar business. However, I speak to far too many people who have... Read more

9 May, 2012 by Robert Schifreen

Red Hat makes OpenShift cloud platform open source

...the 451 Group. In March, Red Hat became the world's first billion-dollar open-source company, after its yearly revenue climbed to $1.13bn... Read more

1 May, 2012 by Jack Clark

Mr Google Goes To Washington

...have autonomy more akin to start-ups than employees of a multi-billion dollar international corporation. Behaving well as a monopoly comes hard in such... Read more

21 September, 2011

BSA secret agenda: open source saves the world

...81 percent. This accounts for what the BSA describes as a "$59 billion dollar heist", as of course every copied piece of software would otherwise... Read more

8 September, 2011

Judge: Oracle must cut Google damages claim

...purely speculative," he said. Oracle may now struggle to get a multi-billion dollar settlement based on damages alone, Florian Mueller, founder of the NoSoftwarePatents... Read more

25 July, 2011 by Ben Woods

Nvidia's Icera deal hides bleak outlook for EU wireless

...in the Far East. But it's a long way from a billion dollar payday. VCs don't normally aim for 'a fair price' when... Read more

9 May, 2011

Web 2.what?

...data as important as applications, companies like Google and Facebook became multi-billion dollar giants, soaking up the cognitive surplus of a world weaning itself... Read more

31 March, 2011

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Jack Schofield

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As said, sponsored by Microsoft........

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I think that we have been here before, shipments are not equal to sales. Correct?

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yeah! all we want free software

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Just gimme a map to the fridge. :D

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