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AMD Unveils New Chips, Cuts Prices
News Last quarter, Intel regained six points of market share, on a year-to-year basis, partly through price cuts. Next week, Intel is expected to release four new Pentium 4 processors for desktops, including a 2.8GHz Pentium 4, and follow up with...
[August 21, 2002, 16:09]
AMD Ups Athlon Speed, Cuts Prices
News With the new chips, AMD announced deep price cuts on its high-end Athlon chips. However, what's more relevant to customers, especially those buying lower-cost Athlon systems, are the deep price cuts AMD made along with the introduction of the new...
[October 18, 2000, 8:15]
France Leans On HP Over Job Cuts
News The French government is leaning on HP to reduce the 1,240 job cuts it announced last week. The move was part of a cost-saving exercise that will see 14,500 job cuts worldwide in the company. In total, 6,000 job cuts are planned in Europe.
[September 22, 2005, 17:50]
EMC Job Cuts Affect More Than Expected
News Its final consolidation plan, approved by EMC management on 29 December and outlined in a regulatory filing Friday, calls for the higher job cuts. EMC plans to cut 1,350 jobs this year — 100 more employees than it earlier expected — to consolidate...
[January 8, 2007, 8:04]
EC Praises 3 Roaming Cuts
News Reding's campaign has successfully forced cuts of up to 70 percent in wholesale charges, which networks charge each other to interconnect customers. The threat of legislation has seen operators start to reduce the charges over recent months...
[January 17, 2007, 15:25]
PlusNet Trumps Wanadoo's Broadband Price Cuts
News PlusNet has responded to Wanadoo's recent price cuts by offering 1Mb connections at £14.99 a month, and 2Mb connections at £19.99 a month. If Wanadoo truly meant business, this is the kind of pricing they would be putting in place," said Marco...
[August 25, 2004, 15:05]
Philips Loss To Be Followed By 4,000 Job Cuts
News The company said it would cut 4,000 jobs bringing the total figure for the year to date to over 10,000 -- five percent of its workforce -- but did not say where the latest cuts would be. Shares in Philips fell almost three percent in Tuesday...
[July 17, 2001, 10:57]
Apple Makes Huge Job Cuts, Newton Spared Again
News Apple made its much-dreaded job cuts Friday, saying it planned to reduce its head count by 2,700 employees plus 1,400 part-time and temporary staff. The cuts equated to nearly a quarter of full-time staff and half part-time staff but analysts said...
[March 17, 1997, 11:16]
Gateway Cuts Its Losses
News Gateway on Thursday posted a narrower third-quarter loss, helped by cost cuts and an increase in PC unit shipments, that could enable it to climb ever closer to turning a profit. The PC maker reported a loss of $59m, or 16 cents per share, for the...
[October 29, 2004, 9:29]
Siemens Considers More Job Cuts
News German IT manufacturer Siemens may cut more jobs in addition to the 10,000 cuts already made, according to a report in the Financial Times Deutschland on Thursday. The cuts are to be particularly aimed at ICN (Information and Communication Networks...
[August 3, 2001, 16:01]
AMD Cuts Chip Prices
News The cuts come on Opteron server chips, Turion and Sempron notebook chips, and the single- and dual-core Athlon processors, as well as the budget Sempron line. The cuts range in size from 34.5 percent on the Opteron 152 ($417 (£235) from $637) to 10...
[August 2, 2005, 9:25]
Office XP Price Cuts Reflect Licensing Changes
News Microsoft plans to announce price cuts on Wednesday for its Office productivity software, a day after it eased controversial licensing plans for Office and other products. The price cuts are for the full retail versions of Office XP "suites...
[May 28, 2003, 8:37]
Google Plans DoubleClick Job Cuts
News Google plans to make an unspecified number of job cuts at DoubleClick following the closing of its $3.1bn (£1.5bn) acquisition of the advertising technology company, the search giant said on Tuesday. In a statement on Google's website, the company...
[March 12, 2008, 13:12]
More Job Cuts Ahead For Yahoo?
News on Wednesday reported third-quarter results that met Wall Street expectations, but the company warned of pending staff cuts as it seeks to bolster revenues, which dipped to $166.1m (£116m) for the period.
[October 11, 2001, 9:47]
AMD Cuts Prices, Preps Notebook Athlon
News After price cuts by rival Intel over the weekend, AMD cut the prices of its Athlon and Duron chips for desktops by around 20 percent this week. Under the new cuts, the 1.2GHz Athlon with a 266MHz system bus sells for $294 (£201) in quantities of 1...
[March 7, 2001, 8:14]
Intel And AMD Deliver Pre-Christmas Price Cuts
News The extent and effect of AMD's price cuts, however, are sometimes larger than the price list indicates. When the company cuts prices, the highest-price chip takes on the price of the second-most-powerful chip, and so on.
[October 28, 2003, 8:00]
Intel Cuts Prices And Plans New Chips
News High-end Celeron chip prices were also dropped, although there were no price cuts in the mobile Celeron or Pentium range. Chip giant Intel slashed the prices of many of its faster desktop microprocessors on Sunday, fulfilling widespread expectations.
[February 28, 2000, 16:48]
Microsoft Cuts Vista Price To Drive Upgrades
News The price cuts vary by country. Microsoft said on Thursday that it plans to cut prices of its Windows Vista operating system sold at retail outlets in a move aimed at pushing customers to switch to the newest version of Windows.
[February 29, 2008, 7:19]
AltaVista Job Cuts Won't Hit UK
News The layoffs will mark the second round of staff cuts for the company in five months, indicating the difficulties hundreds of Web portals are having to contend with in a saturated market. Struggling Web portal AltaVista will announce lay offs Friday...
[September 15, 2000, 12:36]
Palm Begins Hefty Job Cuts
News Handheld maker Palm began making large-scale job cuts Wednesday and, according to internal documents, has been detailing other ways it will cut costs. The company plans to cut jobs further when it completes its acquisition of Extended Systems in...
[April 19, 2001, 9:17]
