CA to phase out sub-brands as part of integration
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CA's move to focus all its product names around a single "CA" master brand and a clear product descriptor is being driven by the company's ongoing strategy to more tightly integrate its software, according to a CA executive.
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'Vertical integration' and cross-promotion in the TV landscape is prompting calls to limit media consolidation.
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And eliminate the companies not worth owning in the process.
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Some say the decision to shutter branches reduces the agency's capability to review industry submissions.
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(InfoWorld) - Transmeta will stop offering engineering services in order to focus entirely on developing and licensing intellectual property, the Santa Clara developer of chip technologies said on Monday. The move follows aÂ restructuringÂ in early 2005 that cut its chip sales business in order to focus on engineering services and intellectual property licensing. "Over the past year, the level of activity for engineering services has declined dramatically due to the completion of programs and our customers' declining staffing requirements," said Les Crudele, president and CEO of Transmeta, during a conference call to discuss the change. "As a result, the billable time for our engineers has declined to the point that the projects are no longer sufficient to cover the costs associated with that business." On Friday, Transmeta laid off 75 employees, mostly engineers in the services business, and expects to let go another 25 to 55 people in the next few quarters. The majority of Transmeta's engineering business came from Microsoft and Sony. Last year, SonyÂ reduced its deal with TransmetaÂ and its contract ends in March. Transmeta has also completed a services contract with Microsoft on theÂ FlexGo project, a program that enables customers in developing economies to buy computers and software on a pay-as-you-go basis. Transmeta plans to retain some staff in order to support that program as it progresses past the trial phase. Transmeta also plans to close its sales and support offices in Taiwan and Tokyo. Without the drag of the engineering services business, Transmeta hopes that it can build its licensing business by attracting more customers. Currently, companies including NEC, Fujitsu, Sony. and Toshiba license technology from Transmeta. The company has been talking to chip makers outside of Japan about licensing deals but isn't ready to make any announcements yet, Crudele said.
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The new measures are due to AT&T's retreat from selling services to consumers, the company said today.
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IBM, the company that transformed personal computers from a hobby to an industry with the introduction of its PC line in 1981, will bow out of the increasingly low-margin market through a partnership
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Move will let the company to free up development resources for other areas of its network admission control client.
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Telstra has announced the break-up of its wholesale unit, including the creation of a separate media and content division, to address the concerns of the competition regulator before the company&#39;s full privatisation.
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Following Sony&#39;s surprising exit from the US PDA handheld market earlier this summer, three other companies have announced their intentions to withdraw from the US handheld market.
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ArvinMeritor Inc. (NYSE: ARM), a Troy, Mich.-based auto parts manufacturer, announced Thursday that it plans to divest its interest in two businesses.
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The deal, expected to be announced today, would end the independence of MCI, the nation's second-largest long-distance company.
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Power off Intellect, the UKâs trade body for the technology industry, has signed up to a government plan to phase out energy-guzzling consumer electronics products.â¦
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CA's chief financial officer said the software vendor expects to make additional restructuring moves in a bid to reduce its annual costs by another $200 million.
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IAC/InterActiveCorp has announced plans to split into two publicly traded companies, keeping some operations under the IAC name and placing others under the Expedia brand.
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The move puts more pressure on the company to close its subprime mortgage unit and shed other divisions not tied to the core tax business.
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Major UK retailers plan to stop adding harmful trans-fats to their own-brand products.