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News Burst: IBM And Dell In 'major' Joint Venture
News A "major announcement" by Dell and IBM is scheduled later today and although no details are available yet, the firms are expected to reveal a multi-billion dollar joint venture that could see Dell selling products direct for Big Blue.
[March 4, 1999, 11:39]
U.S. FCC Approves AT&T, BT Joint Venture
News The Federal Communications Commission Friday approved AT&T's $10bn global joint venture with BT, allowing the No. In a statement, the FCC said it would impose some limits on the joint venture because of British Telecom's dominant position.
[October 25, 1999, 8:10]
IBM Dissolving South Korean Joint Venture
News IBM and LG Electronics are moving to dissolve a joint venture for selling PCs in South Korea, sources say. The chief executive of the joint venture, Lee Duk Ju, recently told employees that the two companies will probably divide LG/IBM PC, with...
[September 1, 2004, 14:40]
Fujitsu Siemens To Sign Off Joint-venture 24 August
News A recent report in a German business magazine Wirtschaftswoche suggested major snags in the joint-venture which will go under the Fujitsu Siemens Computers name and unify PC, Unix workstation, mainframe and supercomputer lines across Europe.
[August 13, 1999, 12:45]
BT Buys Back Concert From MCI
News BT Thursday said it would pay about $1bn (£.6bn) to take back its 24.9 percent stake in Concert - its joint venture with MCI Communications. In the US, Concert services will be sold primarily through AT&T , which had originally opposed the...
[August 14, 1998, 6:42]
3Com Denies Huawei Patent Risks
News 3Com will not sell any products that infringe Cisco patents through its joint venture with Chinese manufacturer Huawei. The joint venture will allow 3Com to sell Huawei switches and routers outside China and Japan.
[March 24, 2003, 9:26]
3Com's Eastern Venture May Slip In Legal Mess
News 3Com has formed a joint venture with Huawei to deliver new networking products to businesses. Com will be able to sell the joint venture products under its own brand throughout the world, except in China and Japan.
[March 21, 2003, 13:36]
Siemens And NEC Partner On Mobile Tech
News Siemens and NEC have formed a joint venture to develop radio infrastructure for third generation mobile networks, the Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS). The joint venture, based in Reading, will be called Mobisphere.
[November 16, 1999, 12:29]
Display Screens Go Organic
News Inkjet printer company Seiko Epson and start-up Cambridge Display Technology formed a joint venture on Friday aimed at popularising an emerging display technology that could eventually rival liquid crystal displays.
[June 17, 2002, 14:38]
Centra Software Case Study: Cingular Wireless
White Papers Cingular is the result of a joint venture between SBC Communications and BellSouth that united eleven different wireless companies. When leadership took over the new Cingular in October 2000, the challenge was clear: How would they build a...
[December 20, 2005, 23:00]
Sony Ericsson Gets Cash Boost
News Sony and Ericsson have greeted the new year with a new round of funding for their struggling mobile phone joint venture, laying to rest fears about Sony Ericsson's immediate future. Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications, a 50:50 joint venture, will...
[January 29, 2003, 11:28]
KPN Buys UK Leg Of KPNQwest
News Dutch telecoms group KPN has agreed to buy the British assets of its failed networking joint venture KPNQwest. When the joint venture went bankrupt, KPN initially supported the fund set up to keep it in operation.
[September 13, 2002, 15:48]
Billion-dollar Alliance To Pump Out Large Displays
News Hitachi, Toshiba and Matsushita Electric have formed a joint venture to manufacture large liquid-crystal displays for flat-screen televisions, escalating competition for a piece of the digital living room.
[September 1, 2004, 9:50]
Apple Sews Up Flash Market
News Intel and Micron Technology are launching a joint venture to produce NAND flash memory, with Apple prepaying $500m (£290m) to secure its place in line for the popular technology, the companies said on Monday.
[November 22, 2005, 8:55]
Capital Beats Virgin To Digital Licence
News Virgin has lost London's first digital radio multiplex licence to CE Digital, a joint venture between Capital Radio and Emap Radio. A spokesman for Virgin Radio, which applied for the licence in a joint venture with Talk Radio, said he was...
[September 9, 1999, 10:13]
Flat Screens Exploit Electron Emission Technology
News Canon and Toshiba have formed a joint venture to develop, produce and sell surface-conduction electron-emitter display (SED) flat screens Their joint venture will be called SED Inc.and will employ around 300 staff.
[September 14, 2004, 16:20]
Councils Seal Shared-services Deal With IBM
News Two southwestern local authorities have signed a £400m deal to create a shared services joint venture with IBM. The joint venture will also be open to more than 30 other public-sector organisations in the region, which will be able to take...
[October 3, 2007, 8:42]
Sony Speeds Development Of Next-gen Mobile Screens
News Sony is increasing its commitment to organic light-emitting diode display technology by further investing in a joint venture to produce OLED screens and use them in mobile devices. Sony announced on Thursday that it will invest another 9bn yen...
[June 13, 2003, 8:46]
Ask Jeeves Renews International Quest
News The new Japanese venture could spell competition for Web search stalwarts in that country, where Yahoo Japan, a joint venture between Yahoo and Softbank, dominates. Ask Jeeves on Monday unveiled a Japanese Web site, the search company's first...
[August 24, 2004, 8:20]
Netscape Buys Extranet Developer Actra
News In a deal that continues its increasing push into the business market, Netscape Communications Corp.announced Thursday it will gain full ownership of Actra, a joint venture between Netscape and GE Information Services that makes Internet commerce...
[November 7, 1997, 9:26]
