Gateway Turning Off Net Appliances?
News I certainly wouldn't be surprised to see either other companies exiting the business or divisions within large companies exiting the business," he said. As part of its renewed focus on maximising PC sales, Gateway is pulling back from the nascent...
[March 6, 2001, 15:04]
SuSE Linux Cuts Jobs, Hires New CEO
News And VA Linux Systems is exiting the computer business to focus on software. Times are tough in the Linux market. French Linux seller MandrakeSoft is trying its own initial public offering -- but on an unregulated market.
[July 24, 2001, 10:59]
Is HP's New CEO The Right Man For The Job?
News One choice that Hurd may have to face in the near future is exiting markets, says Gartner's Charles Smulders. Still, not everyone is sold on Hurd as a leader for the technology market. They have essentially been level, at best, for over a decade...
[March 30, 2005, 12:15]
HP Reaps Rewards Of CEOs Past And Present
News More than a year later, after the aggressive cost-cutting tactics of new chief executive Mark Hurd, HP is a Wall Street darling once again, without exiting any businesses or dramatically changing its strategy.
[September 4, 2006, 12:35]
Portal Woes Kick In
News In a statement last week, Excite@Home said the charges also came from its purchase of Blue Mountain and the exiting of other businesses such as e-commerce site iMall and online advertising product Enliven.
[January 31, 2001, 12:27]
Cheap Intel Chipsets On The Way Out
News An Intel representative dismissed reports suggesting the company was exiting the low-end chipset business altogether but said the company was in the middle of making changes to its manufacturing plants to make way for more mobile-focused and high...
[August 4, 2005, 9:25]
Dell Hones Blade-server Push
News One blade start-up, Racemi, is exiting the hardware part of the blade business to concentrate on blade-management software. Dell Computer wants a cut of the blade-server market. The company will also likely flesh out its blade strategy further in a...
[April 3, 2002, 10:07]
Nano-refrigeration Firm Takes A Cool Look At Wafers
News The exiting electrons leave materials with a positive charge that is then rebalanced by the current flowing back into the system, according to the company. The company's first target market will be aerospace and military contractors, the spokesman...
[April 19, 2004, 14:00]
Quantum Cancels Snap Server Spin-off
News We're exiting that business by the end of the quarter," Brown said. An unappealing investment market has led storage specialist Quantum to cancel its plan to spin off its Snap server division. Competitors in this "solid-state disk" market include...
[June 14, 2001, 9:27]
HP Quits CD-RW For DVD
News Although it is number one in sales of add-on CD-rewritable drives, Hewlett-Packard is exiting that market so it can better concentrate on the emerging, and potentially more profitable, demand for recordable DVD drives.
[October 11, 2001, 11:50]
Handheld Sales Show Signs Of Life
News Handspring is slowly exiting the market, so that is not a surprise," said analyst Todd Kort with market researcher Gartner. Although the handheld market is showing some signs of life, it saw a 12.1 percent year-over-year decline in units shipped...
[April 23, 2002, 8:32]
Yahoo! Concedes Europe Auctions To EBay
News But eBay stumbled badly in Japan, finally exiting the market earlier this year after being unable to dent Yahoo! Yahoo! will close five of its auction sites in Europe and instead promote eBay's competing auctions as part of an agreement the...
[May 23, 2002, 8:50]
CRM Rivalry Heats Up
News They're paying for two years of complacency" after exiting the hosted CRM market in 2001, said Dan Starr, chief marketing officer of Salesnet. The gloves are coming off in the battle to reign supreme in the nascent market for pay-by-the-month...
[October 20, 2003, 15:25]
Wireless War: Who's Gonna Win?
News Qualcomm plans to spin off its semiconductor unit and has spent the past two years exiting most of its manufacturing businesses. At least three major wireless transmission technologies -- GSM (Global System for Mobile communications), CDMA (Code...
[February 5, 2001, 8:35]
Anti-Virus: The Conspiracy Theory
Forum WARNING EXITING CONSPIRACY THEORY ZONE! The obvious winner here are the Anti-virus companies, but for N*rt*n to be able to sell NAV, there has to be a market for it (i.e.no virus=no anti-virus). My personal favorite were the bootblock virus on...
[December 22, 2005, 12:41]
IBM's PC Division 'for Sale'
News Exiting the PC business or establishing a joint venture in China would make sense for both companies, analysts said. Consolidation within the PC industry is inevitable, according to market watchers. As many as three of the top 10 PC manufacturers...
[December 3, 2004, 16:30]
Gartner: HP And IBM Could Abandon PC Market
News Exiting the market may be the only logical choice for global vendors bleeding profits and struggling for share. Gartner said on Monday that if profit margins and profitability drop too low, HP and IBM could be forced to cut their losses and leave...
[November 29, 2004, 12:05]
Hitachi Sees Money In Hard Drives
News Exiting the desktop hard drive business would not be an unprecedented move for a manufacturer. Executives from a Hitachi and IBM hard drive joint venture, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, will announce on Monday a new business strategy and...
[January 6, 2003, 9:32]
CES: Fiorina Puts Industry In The Picture About Merger
News To the skeptics who say it won't work.that it's not the HP Way, I say you don't know the people of the new HP," Fiorina concluded, exiting the stage to the strains of John Mellencamp crooning, "C'mon baby take a ride with me.
[January 9, 2002, 9:47]
Maxtor Withdraws From Network Storage Market
News Exiting the (network-attached storage) business will allow us to focus on our core hard disk drive markets, further reduce expenses and accelerate Maxtor's return to profitability," he said. Hard drive maker Maxtor has discontinued sales of a...
[August 16, 2002, 14:34]
