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...decision was also welcomed by Microsoft's rivals. Thomas Vinje, the lawyer for the European Committee for Interoperable Systems (ECIS), a group of technology companies that includes IBM, Nokia, Oracle and Sun Microsystems, said, "This is a great day for European businesses and consumers." He added: "At long last, the decision opens the prospect for dynamic competition in the software industry. No more user lock-in, no more monopoly pricing." He said the ruling was a landmark that set standard for Microsoft's future conduct - and empowered the Commission to impose it on the European market if necessary...
...that, the IPO filing revealed a Byzantine operating structure, over which investors holding public shares - technically "units" of the Blackstone partnership - will hold little sway. "When you buy 10 shares of IBM, you don't have much of a voice, but at least there's a democratization of how the organization is structured," says Hamilton. "You're not getting that with Blackstone. What you're getting is, Trust us, we have a good track record." And keep in mind that that track record is from a time when the company didn't have to deal with the constant and short...
...HIStory: owners of banks, economic advisers to royalty, Popes and political VIPs. But during the Nazi occupation of France, the Jewish family saw its business all but ruined. As head of the powerful Paris office after World War II, Baron Guy de Rothschild built shiny new headquarters, diversified investments (IBM, oil digs in the Sahara), nurtured political connections and modernized and revived the empire...
...problem solver—that is his central orientation, and I think he is sensitive to the challenging situation he faces and will make a sustained effort to provide stability and leadership to the World Bank, which remains an important institutions,” said Roger B. Porter, the IBM professor of business and government . “When I was a junior professor, he was one of my best teaching fellows, so I’m somewhat partial to him—but he’s got experience, and he is bright and capable. He?...
...talk about Second Life, you' d think it was the most popular virtual world on the Internet. After all, IBM has its own island there. Harvard holds classes there. And anyone who can figure out how to get around in it - a notoriously difficult task for newbies - can gamble, play tennis and even have virtual sex there...