VMware Chief Executive Officer Pat Gelsinger is not interested in taking away startups’ Friday beer parties. Preserving small companies’ cultures is a key to successful acquisitions, the former EMC executive said today on a panel at the Economist magazine’s Ideas...
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VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger, right, employs an acquisition policy that involves not meddling with startup culture.
Beer Friday Is Key to VMware’s Acquisition Strategy
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T-Mobile USA CEO John Legere introduced new pricing plans along with some vocal jabs.
‘Greedy Hedge Funds’ Won’t Stop MetroPCS Merger: T-Mobile CEO
True to T-Mobile USA’s new “uncarrier” branding, John Legere is not your average telecom chief executive officer. For one, he tends to do away with niceties. At the Consumer Electronics Show in January, Legere described AT&T’s wireless network as “crap.”...
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The logo for SFR, a mobile-phone unit of Vivendi SA, sits on a giant display screen at one of the company's stores in Paris, France.
Vivendi Goes Back to Future With SFR Spinoff Plan
In its unlikely transformation from a regional water utility into Europe’s biggest telecom and media conglomerate, Vivendi has ridden a lot of corporate trends. It may be on the verge of adding another to the list: the spinoff. Vivendi is...
Read more »Time Warner Boss Wonders If Press Knows What They’re Talking About — Including His Own Reporters
If Time Warner Inc. CEO Jeffrey Bewkes isn’t aware of all the media he controls, give him a break. After all, he has a lot on his plate: CNN, HBO, Warner Bros. film studios, TNT, TBS, Cartoon Network … and...
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A chicken soup dish with accoutrements is served at Naamyaa Cafe in London
Hungry for Photos: OpenTable Buying Foodspotting for $10 Million
A picture may be worth a thousand words, but photos of restaurant food are apparently worth $10 million. OpenTable, the online restaurant reservation company, is announcing today it’s paying that amount to buy Foodspotting, a smartphone application that lets people share...
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Donald Trump is the latest billionaire interested in owning the New York Times.
Why It’s Hard for Trump — or Anyone — to Buy the N.Y. Times
Ridicule of Donald Trump has become an almost daily occurrence. This week, the mockery came after he was revealed to be the latest billionaire interested in owning the New York Times. Again, and again, and again. New York Magazine’s Joe Hagan, who decided...
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Esther Dyson is still excited about the possibilities with collecting data, and health devices that can give real-time feedback.
Angel Investor Esther Dyson Increases Dosage in Health Startups
Angel investor Esther Dyson continues to spread her wings. The former technology analyst found success as an early backer of photo-sharing service Flickr and bookmarking site Delicious, both of which sold to Yahoo. She’s on the boards of high-profile sites...
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Leo Apotheker, the former HP CEO who oversaw the Autonomy acquisition, says due diligence was thorough.
Former HP CEO Apotheker Says Autonomy Diligence Was Meticulous
Leo Apotheker, who was chief executive officer of Hewlett-Packard when it agreed to buy Autonomy, said due diligence around the deal was “meticulous and thorough” and that he was “stunned” by allegations that the company misrepresented its results. “The due diligence...
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Positivo Informatica tumbled the most in a month after reporting a third-quarter profit that missed estimates.
Little Love for Brazil’s PC Leader
Unless you’re living in Brazil, odds are you haven’t heard of Positivo Informatica. It’s the country’s biggest computer maker, an honor that seems less impressive every day. Profit margins throughout the PC industry are declining, as is industry growth as...
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Y Combinator holds two classes of startups per year, each with six dozen or so companies.
What Entrepreneurs Should Look for in Tech Startup Incubators
In the last few years, dozens of incubator programs catering to tech startups have popped up. Their typical business model is to take equity in the young companies they nurture in the hopes of breeding some superstars that yield big...
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