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New Alliance Aims to Revive Printer Channel
If you thought opportunities in the printing solutions market were tapped out, think again. There are plenty of ways VARs can expand business and attract new customers with innovative printing solutions, much as Derive Technologies did when they signed a reseller agreement with TallyGenicom. Derive Technologies’ agreement with TallyGenicom, a manufacturer of business-class printers including…
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Bluewolf Integration Tool Combines SAAS with Managed Services
Software as a service and managed services have emerged in recent years as transformative business models for solution providers, but though sometimes confused, the models are distinct from each other. That is, until now. At the intersection of SAAS and managed services stands Bluewolf, an IT consulting and services firm that this month added remote…
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Lenovo to Cut 50 jobs in U.S. by End-2008
HONG KONG, Oct 22 (Reuters) – Lenovo Group (0992.HK), the world’s No.4 personal computer maker, said on Wednesday it will cut 50 jobs at its U.S. headquarters by the end of 2008, as the global economic crisis overshadows the business outlook. Global PC shipments grew a slower-than-expected 15.8 percent in the third quarter of this…
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NetSuite Targets Salesforce Clients with Discounts
BOSTON, Oct 22 (Reuters) – Software maker NetSuite Inc (N.N) launched a marketing campaign on Wednesday to win customers away from rival Salesforce.com Inc (CRM.N), offering them 50 percent discounts over current fees. NetSuite, which is majority-owned by Oracle Corp (ORCL.O founder and billionaire Larry Ellison, is focusing the new marketing drive on pricing at…
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Dell Aims to Outpace Industry, Sees Uncertainty
By Fang Yan and Helen Ding SHANGHAI, Oct 22 (Reuters) – Dell (DELL), the world’s second-biggest computer maker, expects to grow faster than the industry this year but its CEO added it is hard to say whether the global PC market will improve heading into the year-end. While slashing jobs, the company, which made nine…
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EMC Gives Weak Outlook, Sees Slower Tech Spending
By Jim Finkle BOSTON, Oct 22 (Reuters) – EMC Corp (EMC) forecast earnings for the current quarter at the low end of Wall Street expectations as the world’s top corporate storage equipment maker faced slower spending on information technology. But shares rose 7 percent on relief that the news wasn’t worse and also by stronger-than-expected…