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Hakan AkbasPresident & FounderGlobal Dealings, LLC

Xerox Q2 Results Average, but Upside Catalysts Remain Elusive Despite ACS

April 21, 2011

Analysis of:Xerox Q2 Results Average, but Upside Catalysts Remain Elusive Despite ACS | news.xerox.com

After announcing its Q2 results today, Xerox was trading at $10.22 a share after dropping more than 5% on intensifying competition, slowing industry wide unit volume growth, continued mix shift towards lower-margin services contracts and incremental supply chain costs (particularly in 2Q) related to Japan to pressure near-term results. We are working on a very detailed assessment of the company, trends in the technology business, update on ACS merger and its outlook for 2011.

Hakan AkbasPresident & FounderGlobal Dealings, LLC

Turkish mergers reach $30 billion in 2010

April 20, 2011

Analysis of:Turkish mergers reach $30 billion in 2010 | akbaspost.blogspot.com

The volume of mergers and acquisitions, or M&As, in Turkey approached $30 billion in 2010, according to estimates from Ernst & Young. 241 M&A transactions took place in Turkey last year, representing a rise of 108 percent. 

Hakan AkbasPresident & FounderGlobal Dealings, LLC

Private equity funds search for Turkish companies

April 20, 2011

Analysis of:Private equity funds search for Turkish companies | akbaspost.blogspot.com

Domestic and foreign investment funds are seeking companies to take in a partnership in Turkey. Turkey has increased its attractiveness for foreign investors, despite the global crisis as the OECDs highest growth market and only third in the world after China and Argentina in 2010

Hakan AkbasPresident & FounderGlobal Dealings, LLC

Intel & IBM highlight rebound in IT spending, cloud services & emerging markets

April 19, 2011

Analysis of:Intel and IBM highlight rebound in IT spending and increasing momentum in cloud | akbaspost.blogspot.com

The latest earnings reports from IBM, Intel,WMware continue to show strong rebound in IT spending including a shift toward cloud computing and emerging economies.Intel reported revenues of $12.8bn, up 25% on a year ago. Profits of 56 cents a share were up 30 per cent on a year ago and beat expectations of 46 cents.IBM’s revenues rose 8% to $24.6bn and its operating earnings rose 21% to $2.41 a share. But its shares slipped amid concerns for signings of new contracts by its services businesses.

Cliff BellChief Information OfficerINFOGAIN CORPORATION

Amazon makes the money on the reader software - Not hardware

April 19, 2011

Analysis of:The Kindle is an iPad Accessory, And That's Why It's Still Going to Be Huge | www.businessinsider.com

People own Kindles and iPads. The great thing is that you can read kindle books on your ipad with the kindle reader. Amazon has been smart to focus on the content and the software that runs on the kindle. If they make it run on all the tablet platforms, then it could be a solution like Microsoft office is to productivity tools.

Hakan AkbasPresident & FounderGlobal Dealings, LLC

eBAY to expand in Turkey taking a 93% stake in GittiGidiyor

April 19, 2011

Analysis of:eBAY to expand in Turkey taking a 93% stake in GittiGidiyor | akbaspost.blogspot.com

e-commerce continues to expand overseas boosting growth prospects for companies such as ebay and amazon via acquisitions. eBay has agreed to buy Turkey's leading online marketplace in Turkey. Accordingly, eBay today announced that it has agreed to acquire additional shares in GittiGidiyor, the leading online marketplace in Turkey. The deal follows eBay’s acquisition of a minority stake in the company in 2007. Upon closing of the transaction, eBay will own approximately 93% of the outstanding shares of GittiGidiyor. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Cliff BellChief Information OfficerINFOGAIN CORPORATION

My intellectual property creation is not manageable

April 18, 2011

With all of the recent new applications being developed for the tablet (iPad is my case), the ability to track company Intellectual property is getting more difficult and protecting these assets is nearly impossible. Yet IT is challenged with maintaining corporate assets with regards to digital information.

Cliff BellChief Information OfficerINFOGAIN CORPORATION

Social Media - A Terabyte of Knowledge or Noise each day

April 10, 2011

The amount of data that can be gathered by companies on Facebook, twitter, and the many other sources of social media can add up to a terabyte of data a day (and increasing) for companies with even a meager amount of brand recognition. We finally have a source of new information that is like drinking from a fire hose – literally. There is so much information becoming available that all companies are racing to understand and manage this new source of market feedback.

Cliff BellChief Information OfficerINFOGAIN CORPORATION

Virtualization to include Cloud Applications

March 19, 2011

Desktop virtualization is beginning to be more than a virtualized version of Microsoft office and file storage. It is also becoming a standard virtual set of cloud applications. I attended my monthly CIO meeting last night and the topic was virtualization.

Cliff BellChief Information OfficerINFOGAIN CORPORATION

Saving Power in the Data Center

March 13, 2011

The speed of servers continues to grow. This could lead to an ever larger and larger power utilization in the data center. But there three main approaches to reducing power consumption in the data center. You can virtualize your servers, you can outsource to the clound and you can cnetralize your storage in a SAN.

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