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Microsoft, Intel, OEMs to launch PC advertising blitz
In an effort to kick-start sales in the flagging PC industry and spur faster adoption of Windows 10, Microsoft is teaming up with the world’s top three PC makers – Lenovo Group Ltd., Dell Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Co. – plus silicon chip giant Intel in a new advertising campaign which is said to be the ...
Pure Storage CEO criticizes Dell/EMC for “weakness”
Enterprise tech firm CEOs are seemingly falling over themselves to take a dig at Dell Inc. in the wake of its $67 billion takeover of EMC Corp. Following on from the gloating remarks of Hewlett-Packard Co. CEO Meg Whitman and IBM’s Ginni Rometty, Pure Storage Inc. CEO Scott Dietzen has penned a blog post in ...
Intel’s cloud growth glosses over disappointing Q3 results
Intel posted yet another dreary set of financial results in its third quarter earnings report yesterday, though the company may have found a bright spot thanks to its continued growth in the cloud. Intel CEO Brian Krzanich revealed in the earnings call that the chipmaker’s revenues hit $14.5 billion for the quarter, resulting in a ...
IBM’s Ginni Rometty unfazed by Dell/EMC buyout
Taking a lead from Hewlett-Packard Co.’s CEO Meg Whitman, IBM chief Ginni Rometty has gone public with her own take on the Dell Inc./EMC Corp. mega-acquisition. The Register reports that Rometty made her remarks at the Fortune Most Powerful Women event yesterday. Her comments come across as being mostly guarded, with the CEO saying that ...
Dell tech survey: Digital leaders outgrow digital laggards
While the media spotlight has been gazing intensely on Dell Inc.’s merger-acquisition of storage giant EMC Corp., the company found time to quietly release its second annual Global Technology Adoption survey this week. In the survey Dell draws a comparison between what it calls the “digital leaders” and “digital laggards” and the results are stark ...
Symphony grabs $100M to build out its secure messaging platform
Secure cloud-based messaging platform Symphony Communication Services LLC has announced a fresh funding round worth over $100 million, led by Google Inc. along with a clutch of other investors. The Wall Street Journal actually reported Google’s investment in Symphony late last week, but it turns out the search engine giant isn’t alone, as it’s also ...
Dell & VMware target sales bonanza: Will customers buy it?
In the wake of yesterday’s mega merger between Dell Inc. and EMC Corp., Pat Gelsinger, CEO of EMC’s VMware Inc. beamed that he “could not be more excited about today’s announcement”, adding that the deal is a “very positive” one for all concerned. Gelsinger could be right, and the deal is unlikely to bring about ...
Dell tried to sell its PC business before buying EMC
One of the more interesting rumors emerging in the wake of yesterday’s massive Dell Inc./EMC Corp. merger is the revelation that Dell apparently tried to offload its PC business in the weeks running up to the deal. According to Re/Code, Dell’s main financial backer and co-owner Silver Lake Partners approached a number of tech firms ...
Wikibon analysts praise Dell-EMC deal but note devil is in the details
Dell Inc’s $67 billion acquisition of EMC Corp. will create the world’s largest “privately-controlled, integrated technology company,” the two tech giants said upon announcing the deal this morning. No doubt that’s music to the ears of the bankers financing the deal, but industry analysts are skeptical if the deal will benefit anyone else. For $67 ...
Alibaba’s AliCloud launches second U.S. data center
AliCloud, the cloud computing arm of China’s Alibaba Group Holding Limited, has announced the opening of a second data center facility in Silicon Valley, and is inviting potential customers to sign up for its new services when it launches later today. Alibaba has ambitious global expansion plans for AliCloud, having signed up with a number ...