Revenues at BT Group dropped in the three months to 31 December 2012, according to a statement released today, but the firm still managed to produce a profit thanks to cost cutting and lower operating costs. The statement presented ...
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Cost cutting is tipped to continue to be the focus of Australian companies when they release earnings results next month with investors looking for a more disciplined approach to growth plans after recent job losses and writedowns. ...
With a tough 2012 behind it, Advanced Micro Devices hopes to return to profitability this year through cost-cutting, new chips and other measures, executives said Tuesday. The moves include releasing new chips this year for laptops and ...
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The National Audit Office (NAO) has found that the government has made a good start in reducing spend on IT, but that it still needs to work on delivering IT solutions that reform public services and the way they operate. Government ...
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Dell is said to be close to being bought out for about $24bn (£15.1bn) as the crisis amid PC makers takes its toll on one of the world's largest technology firms. The company, which has switched its focus from producing PCs to ...
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Telecoms equipment maker Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) is planning to go to the public markets to raise up to €700m (£587m) from high-yield bonds. People familiar with the plans told the Financial Times that the telecoms ...
Retail opinion was divided over what the most important or stand out moment was for the toy industry last year. Hasbro’s new Furby was named by just under ten per cent of the retailers we questioned, while seven per cent said the ...
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LED packaging house Everlight Electronics is currently showcasing new LED packaging products with the focus being white LED and automobile lighting at the Lighting Japan 2013 exhibition. According to Robert Yeh, chairman of Everlight, the ...
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Mercedes-Benz has moved to a more modular engineering philosophy in order to enable faster deployment of upcoming models based on newly developed platforms. Speaking with the Australian media at the Detroit auto show this week, the head ...
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Dell may be sold to private equity, reports Bloomberg, with the computer company said to be talking to two private equity companies - Texas Pacific Group and Silver Lake. The reports surfaced after Dell's corporate strategy boss left to ...
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Sault Ste.Marie,Ontario-based flat rolled steelmaker Essar Steel Algoma announced Friday that the Ontario Government has granted the company temporary pension relief in the form of a 12 month deferral of special pension payments effective ...
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DG News Service-The mobile device is causing just as big a change in ways of working at the beginning of this century as the internet was at the end of the last century,says Kevin Noonan,consultant with Ovum. In the early days of internet ...
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LOS ANGELES — Online retailer LuxeYard said it has revamped its website and overhauled its business model to eliminate "flash sales" and concentrate on making its products available continuously. The publicly traded company, which ...
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Slough Borough Council has outsourced its datacentre for a monthly cost of£30,000. The council co-located its datacentre to hosting company Savvis following the decision to sell the previous site as part of its cost-cutting agenda. ...
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Five local authorities have saved£31m by moving to shared services arrangements,according to a report. The study,commissioned by public sector lobby group the Local Government Association,and produced by consultancy Drummond ...