Headlines – Issue No. (October 22-26, 2012)
Internet Proves Oz Post’s BFF, Good for a $2 Billion Investment
USPS To Match Rivals with Same-Day Delivery
eBay Tries One-Hour Delivery
Wal-Mart Takes on Amazon
Shutl Gets More Money
EC May Block UPS-TNT Merger
DPA Reportedly Selling ‘Digital Stamps’
USPS To Raise Stamp Prices a Penny
Microsoft’s Gonna Sue Google over Google Maps
HP Falls Off Its Perch as World’s Biggest PC Vendor
IBM Fields Three Spartans To Take Out Oracle
AMD’s Back Is Up Against the Wall
Microsoft Wants To Be Like Apple or Google
Is Hondo AMD’s John Wayne?
Cloud-Bearing IBM Teams with AT&T To Woo Fortune 1000
Court To Tell Motorola What It Can Charge for FRAND IP
ARM-Based Server Start-Up Calxeda Gets $55M Round
Street Starts Agitating To Break Up HP
Patents Drive Motorola Mobility Out of Germany
Short-Lived Progress CEO To Skip to Another Company
Zenoss Raises $25 Million C Round
Cisco Dumps ZTE over Iran
Wal-Mart Reportedly Using OpenStack & Rackspace
More Facebook Dirty Linen Surfaces
Alteryx Humanizes Big Data
Appeals Court Overturns Galaxy Nexus Ban
Headlines – Issue No. 599 (October 15-19, 2012)
Bpost Sells Off Most of Certipost
Huh-Oh, Oz Post’s Online Security Suspect
Oz Post Makes Strategic Buy
NZ Post Looks for Localist Investor
Volly To Be Integrated into Crawford Widgetry
DPA Hires Marketing Communications Rep
EC Looks to DHL & FedEx as Drag on UPS-TNT
Oracle To Compete with Amazon
Android Rival Collects Some Well-Heeled Friends
Meg Hangs Black Crepe over HP; Stock Dives
IBM Arms ‘Sparta’ for Big Data & the Cloud
Samsung Claims Juror Fraud
Ellison Swears Off Big Acquisitions
BMC is Evidently for Sale
Intel’s Got a Problem Impacting Win8 Tablets Too
Workday To IPO This Week
Yahoo CEO Has Her Baby
Is October 17 the Magic Day?
Oracle To Appeal Java Trial Verdict
AMD To Push Java To Support GPUs
Lenovo To Manufacture in US
Galaxy Tab Injunction Lifted; Samsung Sues iPhone 5
Oracle OEMs Nokia Maps
Rackspace Launches OpenStack U
Motorola Mobility Pulls ITC Complaint against Apple
Soasta Measures Real Mobile & Web Users in Real-Time
Best Buy Brings in Ex-President of Expedia
Cisco Acquires vCider
Intel Trots Out New Personal Cloud Platform
Red Hat Wants To Decaffeinate JBossAS
Apple Offered Samsung a License
Facebook Hits a Billion Users
Ultrabook Forecast Decimated
Google To Dump More of Motorola Mobility
Headlines – Issue No. 598 (October 8-12, 2012)
FedEx Starts Repairing PCs
RPost Settles with Canada & Swiss Posts
USPS Moves into Electronics Recycling
Zipments Gets Funding
TNT Express Chief Quits in the Midst of Negotiations
New Mexico Town Tries Zumbox
Regulator Doubts USPS Plan
Oz Post Goes with NeoPost-InPost Lockers
IBM Eyes Amazon, Salesforce Cloud Turf
Intel CEO Says Windows 8 Ain’t Ready: Bloomberg
EC Aims To Tickle Cloud Adoption with Rules
Intel Claims It’s Mobile
Nasdaq Partners with AWS
HP Faces a Hostile Environment
Cisco Developing a Succession Plan
Terracotta Offers Free Real-Time Big Data Access
EC May Hand Microsoft its Head
Stuck in the Mire Getting Java Apps to the Cloud?
RackWare Delivers Automated Intelligence for the Cloud
Yahoo To Get New CFO Reportedly for Shopping Spree
IBM Buys Butterfly
Simplivity Gets $25 Million from its Dream Team
Apple Wants Injunction, More Money; Samsung Wants New Trial
iPhone 5 Weekend Sales Top Five Million
Component Shortage Thought Responsible for Apple’s Supply Issues
Apple Maps Reportedly Sandbagged Google
IBM Fills Out Ginny’s Chevons, Names Her Chairman Too
La Poste Expands in Spain Chasing E-Commerce
Although Spain, the fifth-largest European market, looks like it’s going down the proverbial tube because of its debt crisis, Geopost, the international parcel and express arm of France’s La Post, has upped its long-held stake in the Spanish company Seur to a majority 55% by acquiring Seur franchises in Zamora, Malaga, Seville and Melilla.
Despite the crisis, Geopost considers Spain “a land of opportunity” particularly since it’s fragmented.
It didn’t say what it paid but it’s invested over €380 million ($493 million) acquiring Seur franchises since 2004 and it means to increase its position over time.
Geopost wants to integrate the Spanish company into its international transport network. It figures Spain can come back in the medium long-term by pressing its B2C interests. Seur’s results, worth roughly $714 million, will probably be flat to down this year and next although its revenues were up 2% in 2011 on the strength of more than 50 million shipments and a total turnover of €558 million ($724 million). International business was up 8% and B2C was up 12% to a third of its revenues.
Geopost’s top management has been changed. VP of marketing and sales Yves Delmas has been named president replacing Manuel Valle; director Alberto Navarrois is now CEO; the board has been cut from 12 to nine directors; and an executive committee of five has been set up.
The newly configured company expects to come up with B2C e-commerce and international innovations in the next few weeks and will doubtless cut prices. Geopost will probably modernize the place.
GeoPost’s turnover exceeded €3.7 billion ($4.9 billion) in 2011 giving it 14% of the market. It manages more than 680 million items a year with a workforce of 20,000 employees. It figures e-commerce will bring in 30% of total turnover in four years.
Headlines – Issue No. 597 (October 1-5, 2012)
La Poste Expands in Spain Chasing E-Commerce
DHL Intros European Return Service
DPA Reportedly Passes on Cloud
FedEx Strained by Shift from Fast to Cheap
EC May Block UPS-TNT Merger
Bell and Howell Goes Cloud
‘Don’t Put All Your Bets on the Internet’: UPU to Posts
Italian Post Signs MoU with Kuwaiti Conglomerate
Bromium, The New Malware Cure
It’s Apple’s Own Chip in the iPhone 5
Zuora Drags the Subscription Economy Out of the 15th Century
Oracle Revenues Light on Dim Sun; Firm Going IaaS
The Trick with Big Data is Context, Context, Context
Here Comes Rackspace & Amazon’s Latest Rival
Microsoft: The New Hardware Vendor
Oracle’s Buying SelectMinds
Lenovo’s First Software Buy is Cloud Of Course
Samsung Galaxy Tab Ban Sticks
Apple Makes It Over the $700 Hump a Few Times
Google Stomps on Acer like a Roach in the Kitchen
Samsung Loses Patent Case Against Apple
Virident Gets $26 Million
Google Test EC’s Patience
Yahoo To Finally Gladden Stockholders
Rackspace Lets Go of OpenStack
Microsoft in Antitrust Hot Water Again
SnapLogic Gets $20 Million
Google May Have To Pay Microsoft’s Ransom Demands
Wal-Mart Banishes Kindles from its Stores
Samsung To Make Good on iPhone 5 Threat
SAP Opens Mobility Center
Headlines – Issue No. 596 (September 24-28, 2012)
Canada Post Gussies Up epost
HP To Support Zumbox & Volly
NZ Post Tries Simplifying US E-Commerce
Oz Post Puts a Date on Volly Launch
FedEx & UPS Get China License
Zumbox Gets Conduit to Financial Services Industry
Stamps.com Upgrades Software
PostNord Deepens its Logistic Interests
USPS Picks Ncontracts
Hardware Systems Born for the Cloud & Big Data
Google Reportedly Threatens To Pull Acer’s Android License
Red Hat Claims Twin Peaks Copied Open Source Code Wholesale
ProfitBricks: Live Virtual Scaling by the Minute
Zuckerberg Blames HTML5
Android Found To Infringe Again
HP Hires Microsoft’s North America Boss To Salvage Autonomy
HP To Chuck More People Out than Thought
Apple Nicks Samsung’s Oxygen Supply: Reuters
Bad News from Intel Worse than Expected
Citrix Backs CumuLogic
Salesforce Buys Data Mining Start-Up
ManageIQ: IT-as-a-Service for All Species of Cloud
Zendesk Pulls in $60 Million
Amazon Starts Spot Market for Reserved Instances
Shuttleworth Invests in Inktank & Ceph
Yahoo Will Reportedly Make $7.6 Billion This Week
Amazon Demands Fee To Escape Ads
Toys “R” Us Puts Out Kids’ Tablet
Microsoft To Take to the Malls at Xmas
Microsoft Soothes EC
Google Counts Android Noses
Waiting for the LTE Shoe To Drop
iOS 6 Out in a Minute
Headlines – Issue No. 594 (September 3-14, 2012)
Deutsche Telekom To Push Out De-Mail
Oz Post Loses Trademark Flap to Digital Post Rival
GeoPost Takes Stake in Worldnet for E-Commerce
Telarix & RPost Cut Deal, End Infringement Claims
PRC Approves Shorter Hours, More Junk Mail
Apple Wins & Wins Big
Start-Up Creates New ‘Assimilated’ IT Architecture
HP To Take Another Stab at the Almighty Tablet
Rackspace Moves into Apps; 100% SLAs Pledged
Dell Hires Ex-HP Biggie To Run its Enterprise Biz
Dell Disappoints
HP Situation Looks Ugly
First Virtual Machine Malware Reported
Piston To Field an OpenStack To Play With
Jury Deliberates Historic Apple-Samsung Case
Andreessen Horowitz Buys All of Storage Start-Up’s A Round
Judge Wants Clarity on Google’s Influence Peddling
Amazon’s Offering Glacier Cold Storage
Motorola Mobility Ratchets Up Patent Attack on Apple
Brocade CEO To Step Down
Violin To OEM vSphere
Best Buy Taps French Turnaround Artist as CEO
Best Buy Earnings Drop 91%, Suspends Guidance
Giant Facebook Turns to the Humble Postcard
Rackspace To Open Australian Data Center
Liaison Acquires Hubspan, Creating Cloud-Based Integration Leader
Kodak Patent Sale Stymied by United Apple-Google Front
Skytap Intros Cloud Foundry-Based Virtual Private PaaS
Apple Briefly Most Valuable Company of All Time
The Numbers Game
Microsoft Taking Orders for Windows 8
Somebody Actually Made Money on Facebook
Amazon To Hold September 6 Press Conference
Headlines – Issue No. 594 (August 27-31, 2012)
Giant Facebook Turns to the Humble Postcard
Amazon UK Lines Up with CollectPlus
EC Puts UPS-TNT Probe on Hold
Royal Mail Sets Up B2B Deliveries with China
Want E-Commerce? Get a Mobile App
Cheetah & Efreightsolutions To Offer Integrated Solution
HP Spins webOS Team Off into New Company
Trial Judge Warns Apple & Samsung of Letting Case Go to Jury
Samsung Puts Number on Damages It Wants from Apple
Red Hat Previews its OpenStack Distribution
EMC Reportedly Looking for Security (Acquisitions)
Microsoft Names its RT Partners
Rackspace Launches its OpenStack Private Cloud Software
Buttoned-Down IBM Gets Flashy
Cincinnati Bell’s Data Center Subsidiary To IPO
Assange Granted Asylum
Embassy Staff Could See the Back of Assange Sooner than Later
Apple Offered Samsung a License Two Years Ago
Microsoft Has Apple Rights Samsung Snubbed
HotLink Natively Extends vCenter to Public Clouds
Google To Cut 4,000 Jobs at Motorola Unit
Teradici Brings PCoIP to Microsoft Remote Desktops
RIM’s New Cloud Unit Reportedly on Block
Cloudwords Develops Glossary for Sexy Words that Sell
IBM Opening its First African Research Lab
Thief Who Robbed Steve Jobs’ House Caught
Facebook Sinks as First Lock-Up Ends
Microsoft’s To Sell Surface Tablet for $199 Report Claims
PTO To Put Office in Silicon Valley
RIM Ready To License New OS
Korea Postpones Apple-Samsung Verdict
iPad mini Reportedly Looks Like Big iPod touch
Lenovo Close To Passing HP as World’s Biggest PC Vendor
Best Buy Founder ‘Won’t Go Away’
Lenovo Thinks It’s Got Surface Beat
Headlines – Issue No. 592 (August 20-24, 2012)
The Internet’s Two Mega-Stores in Delivery Fight
Google Backs DocuSign
NZ Post Sells Software Subsidiary
Putney’s Looking for Clever Geeks
UPS & TNT Confident of Merger
USPS Loses $5.2 Billion in Q3
USPS Outlines New Structure for Rural Post Offices
Computershare Looking to Digital Post
Apple Shows Jury the Smoking Gun
Samsung Slips on Its Own Banana Peel at Apple Trial
Qt Goes to Digia
Oracle & Google Ordered To Cop to Any Influence Peddling
VMware Makes Big Data Acquisition
Apple Jacks Up Its Damages Claim against Samsung
Nvidia’s PC Surprise
Acer Wants Microsoft To Butt Out of Tablets
Microsoft Screws Up on Metro Name
Public Cloud Reportedly Coming from VMware
Realtime Gets $100 Million To Make the Web Real-time
HP Writes Off $8 Billion Just on EDS
HP Needs To Claw Out of the ‘Muddy Middle’
Founder Offers $8.84 Billion for Best Buy
SAP To Pay Oracle At Least $306 Million in Damages
BMC Buys Another DevOps Start-Up
Microsoft Cuts Android License with Sharp
Apple Reportedly Interested in Buying The Fancy
Google & Apple Stint on Kodak Patents
Judge Denies Apple Bid for Samsung Sanctions
Rackspace Cloud Revenues Up 69%
Amazon Reportedly Putting IP Unit Together
Apple To Dump YouTube
SCO Files for Chapter 7
Woz Predicts ‘Horrendous’ Problems from the Cloud
Synaptics Anticipates Windows 8 Hurdle
Google Reportedly Plans To Cut Up MMI
Former Intel Phone Exec Joins the Other Side
Rackspace Rebrands
Yahoo’s Strategy Guy Leaves
AMD Appoints Chief Sales Officer
Google Agrees To Pay Record FTC Fine
Headlines – Issue No. 591 (August 13-17, 2012)
Oz Post Catches Flak over E-Commerce Partnership
UPS Deploys Newfangled Wearable Scanners
USPS Defaults
Manilla Names Head of Product
UK Mail Extends Billing Contract with Swiss Post Solutions
SingPost Launches Mobile App
Deutsche Post Chief Meets with Taiwan Post Head
NBC Universal Uses RPost for IRS Reporting
Itella Buys VR Transpoint’s Groupage Logistics Business
Oracle Buys Xsigo
Lenovo & EMC Now Strategic Partners
Apple Wants Samsung To Forfeit Patent Trial as Sanction
Rackspace Kicks Off the OpenStack Cloud Roll-Out
HP Wins Key Itanium Legal Decision against Oracle
Windows 8 RTMs
Fusion-io Intros ION Software-Defined Storage
September 12 Touted as Apple Launch Date
Birst Aims To End IT Data Feeds
Apple Loses Chip Designer to AMD
Box Gets a $125 Million Round
Yahoo’s Rejected CEO Takes His Hurt Feeling & Leaves
Microsoft’s ARM Tablet Due October 26
Apple To Buy AuthenTec for $356 Million
NetApp & Fusion-io Team Up
Apple Talked to Twitter about Investment: NYT
Hotmail Morphs into Outlook.com
Apple & Google To Vie in Kodak Patent Auction
Novell’s Owner Names New President
Injunction on Samsung Galaxy Nexus Still Stayed
Savvis Buying Part of Ciber
Open Source webOS Fails To Support HP Hardware
AWS Launches Provisioned IOPS for its Elastic Block Store
MMI Android Devices Infringe Microsoft FAT Patent
Three Million Mountain Lions in Four Days
UBS To Sue Nasdaq over Facebook
Facebook Worth Only $19 a Share: Bernstein
Twitter Stops Instagram Poaching
HP Names CIO
Proview Law Firm Wants Possession of iPad Trademark
Taiwan University Sues Apple over Siri
Will Apple Stock Split?
Samsung Believed Working on 11.8-Inch Tablet
AppFog Integrates with Rackspace OpenStack Cloud
Google Cancels Nexus Q Launch
Google To Expand Data Center in Finland
Benioff Tapped for Cisco Board