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Can Ben Verwaayen save Alca-Lu from itself?
Take two competing corporate cultures, add a dash of snobbery and two very distinct leadership styles, add very stiff-and cheap-competition from China to taste, and, finally, squeeze in a twist of Read more...
Ex-BT boss takes over at Alca-Lu
Ben Verwaayen, who led BT through five years of cost cutting and job losses, has been named CEO at struggling comms vendor Alcatel-Lucent, which has lost some $7 billion since its 2006 merger. He'll Read more...
Alcatel-Lucent nearing CEO hiring?
Alcatel-Lucent's stock value still was jumping Wednesday after a report circulated Tuesday that the Paris company was close to hiring former Alcatel executive Mike Quigley as CEO. The report came Read more...
10G GPON may challenge WDM-PON
What's the next PON? It may be GPON to network operators who have not even deployed gigabit passive optical network yet (and we're talking about most network operators). However, for technology Read more...
AlcaLu looking for a peerless leader
There are some people destined to be together: Astaire and Rogers; Lerner and Lowe; Starsky and Hutch. Alcatel-Lucent Patricia Russo and Serge Tchuruk won’t be added to that list anytime soon. Read more...
Microsoft ordered to pay AlcaLu $512 million
Alcatel-Lucent has had a tough week, losing its CEO and chairman, but it may collect close to $512 million after a federal judge last week upheld an earlier jury decision that Microsoft infringed on Read more...
Alcatel-Lucent post huge loss; CEO, chairman step down
For anyone who’s been waiting for the other shoe to drop at Alcatel-Lucent, that thud you heard this morning was the head of CEO Patrica Russo getting the axe after the telecom supplier Read more...
Nokia Siemens Networks posts 18% revenue growth
Nokia Siemens Networks, the network equipment and software joint venture, finished a quarter full of positive news by reporting surprisingly strong revenue growth of 18% to $6.45 billion over the Read more...
Oracle shows results of BEA combo
Oracle's acquisition of BEA Systems ocurred after a bidding and negotiation process whose prolonged and controversial nature may not have been to surprising, given how intensely the two software Read more...
After Embarq deal, NSN eyeing North America
Nokia Siemens Networks recently pulled off a fairly stunning deal when it won a contract to take over network management of U.S. telco Embarq's voice operations. Why "fairly stunning"? Because Read more...