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Analysis: Some Cisco investors urge an exit from set-top box unit

2013-12-11 14:02:53| Telecom - Topix.net

Cisco Systems Inc Chief Executive John Chambers is facing growing pressure from investors to exit its television set-top box business, where revenue has been plummeting and profit margins trail the rest of the company.

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EU court rejects Cisco appeal against Microsoft-Skype deal

2013-12-11 11:37:00| Telecompaper Headlines

(Telecompaper) The EU General Court has rejected an appeal from Cisco and Messagenet against the European Commission's approval of Microsoft's takeover of Skype in 2011. The court found that Microsoft's ownership would not harm competition on the EU market for consumer or enterprise communications. Even if Microsoft's acquisition of Skype gives it an 80-90 percent share of the narrow consumer segment of video communications on Windows-based PCs, the market is changing quickly enough that such a share could be short-lived, the court found. Moreover Microsoft is less present on new operating devices, such as tablets and smartphones, which are becoming increasingly important on the consumer communications market, and alternative operating systems offer sufficient alternatives to Skype over Windows. The company is also unlikely to start charging more for Skype as this could drive users to alternative platforms. In the enterprise market, the court did not find evidence that Microsoft could harm competition by providing preferential integration of Skype with its Lync unified communications system, as claimed by Cisco and Messagenet. "The precise advantages of and the real demand for such a product are vague," the court said, noting that the conditions of using Skype are unlikely to result in exclusive advantages for Microsoft or its customers. Finally, the court found that Cisco itself already has a much larger market share than Microsoft on the enterprise communications market.

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HP private cloud service leads the pack, followed by Cisco and Microsoft, Forrester says

2013-11-26 13:41:02| InfoWorld: Top News

Enterprises are expected to significantly ramp up their pursuit of internal private clouds within the next year and HP, Cisco and Microsoft have the strongest product offerings for those deployments, according to a new Wave report by research firm Forrester.

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Cisco issues grim forecast after falling short on revenue

2013-11-14 14:55:14| InfoWorld: Top News

Cisco Systems stunned Wall Street on Wednesday with a gloomy financial forecast it blamed on falling demand in developing countries and transitions in some of its product lines.

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