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Intel is acquiring Infineon’s wireless business for $1.4 billion — the second major transaction for the company in as many weeks, coming on the heels of its surprising announcement that it would purchase McAfee for $7.7 billion. Unlike the McAfee deal, however, the Infineon buy does not have analysts scratching their heads.
Salesforce.com is a top provider of CRM software in large part because its application is intuitive and easy to use and deploy. It is interesting, therefore, that many Salesforce.com users are opting for Salesforce.com Mobile because it is even easier and more intuitive to use than the desktop version, according to the company.
Not very long ago, both social media and e-commerce were new and innovative. Now, they’re simply elements of today’s marketing mix — part of the fabric of how you reach your customer engagement and revenue objectives. During the slow economic recovery, it has become business-critical to conduct more business using digital channels: websites, social media and email.
iPod, iPhone, iPad and soon we will have iCloud? Mobile operators are working feverishly to determine how best to tap their network resources and offer not just bits and bytes but content, applications and other forms of value-added services. They know their future cash flow depends on successful deployment of these services. Time is still on their side.
HP is proving relentless in its bidding war with Dell over data storage company 3Par. Within hours after Dell matched HP’s offer of $1.8 billion, HP countered with $2 billion. Where the bidding will go from here is anyone’s guess.
“Maybe they could just have a duel at dawn,” suggested Enterprise Strategy Group analyst Mark Peters.