Hewlett Packard and EDS are expected to announce a deal soon where HP will aquire the data services company for about 13 Billion. This deal will make Hewlett Packard the number two global provider of enterprise technology services (IBM is number one). HP, however, is already the world’s largest manufacturer of computers with no competition from IBM in that department because IBM sold their entire computer manufacturing business to China’s Lenovo some time ago.
The move is likely to allow HP to consolidate several management functions as well as enlarge their services footprint considerably. This More»

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There is a great summary at Business Week of the remarkable rise and pending potential fall of Silicon Valley’s newspaper - the San Jose Mercury News. BW notes that in many ways the Mercury News saw it all coming, but still failed to position itself to profit from the migration of offline info to online info.
Although the article does not make this point, I’d suggest that the failure supports the idea that paradigm shifts do not come from old systems evolving into new ones even when the old systems “get it”, rather More»

Labels: companies, Facebook, IBM, Newspapers, San Jose Mercury News, Yahoo