News tagged with business strategy

Sony, Panasonic eye next generation TV tie up

Japan's cash-bleeding electronics giants Sony and Panasonic are looking to join forces to produce next generation televisions in a bid to claw back market from South Korean rivals, according to a report.

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created May 15, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Sony turnaround plan 'ordinary': analysts

Sony has little chance of winning back its reputation as an innovator or vaulting ahead of stronger rivals with the "ordinary" turnaround plan its new chief unveiled last week, analysts said.

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created Apr 15, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Sony to cut 10,000 jobs, turn around TV business

(AP) -- Faced with mounting losses, Sony Corp. said Thursday it will slash 10,000 jobs, or about 6 percent of its global workforce, and try to turn around its money-losing TV business over the next two years.

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created Apr 12, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Newspapers erect pay walls in hunt for new revenue

(AP) -- Newspapers are returning to a business strategy that served them well in the heyday of street-corner newsboys shouting the front-page news. They're enticing people with a little free online content before asking ...

Technology / Internet

created Apr 03, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Alibaba.com shares surge on privatization bid

(AP) -- Shares of Alibaba.com rocketed on Wednesday after the Chinese e-commerce site said its parent company made a $2.5 billion privatization bid as part of a shift in business strategy that also includes plans to buy ...

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created Feb 22, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

China e-commerce firm Alibaba in privatization bid

(AP) -- Alibaba.com's parent company wants to take the Chinese e-commerce company private for $2.5 billion, the firms said Tuesday, part of a shift in business strategy that also includes plans to buy back a stake from Yahoo ...

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created Feb 21, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

News Corp. quarterly net profit up 65%

News Corp. said Wednesday that its net profit rose 65 percent in the second quarter of its fiscal year to $1.06 billion.

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created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Japan electronic giants eye chip merger: reports

Three of Japan's biggest electronics companies are to join forces in a chip-making venture, according to reports, days after a swathe of dire results from a sector struggling to compete globally.

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created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

IBM sees students' Facebook time as more than waste of time

College students need not feel guilty about spending hours each day on Facebook or other social networks. Turns out it might help them get a job.

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created Jan 20, 2012 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Research examines a growing immigrant population's self employment in the US

For a growing immigrant community in the United States, setting up shop means blending tools of the trade from home with discoveries made in the new country, and there's a strategy that's threading through an array of small ...

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Nov 14, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

What drives IT performance?

Going online was once a considerable achievement for a business. Now it's a given and what makes for success is how well a business exploits its online capabilities, according to a recent study.

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created Oct 26, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

World's biggest publishers' fair eyes safe future for books

The world's biggest book fair, which opened Tuesday, wants to put paid to fears for the survival of the book in its traditional, bound form in the face of its digital rival's growing popularity.

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created Oct 11, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Book fair to tackle challenges of digital age storytelling

Authors once just had to deal with a publisher but are now being forced to embrace the digital age and negotiate the rights to their works for TV, films and ebooks.

Technology / Internet

created Oct 09, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

HP shuffles top executives in shake-up

(AP) -- Hewlett-Packard Co. is streamlining its executive ranks to improve its focus on customers rather than administration and put more operations directly under CEO Leo Apotheker's control.

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created Jun 14, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Business software maker CA to cut 1,000 jobs

(AP) -- Business software company CA Inc. said Tuesday that it's cutting 1,000 jobs - or about 8 percent of its work force - and consolidating offices as part of a restructuring plan to reduce costs and become more efficient.

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