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Microsoft Announces Healthcare Joint Venture with General Electric

Microsoft is determined to offer help to healthcare organizations and professionals to use real-time, systemwide intelligence for improving healthcare quality, via a new joint venture it created in collaboration with General Electric Co. The new entity will be focused on delivering an open, interoperable technology...

8 December 2011
10:34 GMT

Samsung and Biogen Go Biopharmaceutical

Samsung is showing that it's not about to stick to whatever confines it is limited to right now, so it figured it may as well give some extra work to a lesser known branch.Samsung Biologics will partner with Biogen for the setting up of a biopharmaceutical manufacturing business.“At Samsung, one of our go...

6 December 2011
21:21 GMT

Bytemobile and China Comservice Announce Joint Venture

Bytemobile, the leading provider of video optimization and Smart Capacity solutions for wireless operators around the world, has announced the establishing of a joint venture with China Comservice, the largest integrated services provider for the telecommunications sector in China. The two companies teamed to addr...

8 November 2011
07:23 GMT

Lenovo and NEC Create New PC Company in Japan

The IT industry is home to many so-called joint ventures, essentially collaborations between two or more companies, and it appears that NEC and Lenovo set the foundation for this kind of company.Japan may have been struck by a serious disaster back in March but, if anything, the country is recovering admirably.In fa...

4 July 2011
04:31 GMT

Quanta and 3M Create New Company for Capacitive Touchscreens

Nowadays, it seems that companies are either suing each other or joining forces, and the latter sort of relationship has sprouted, or in this case blossomed and evolved, between 3M and Quanta, both of which want to get serious in the capacitive touch industry.3M and Quanta have been collaborating for a while on mass...

10 March 2011
10:22 GMT

Apple Officially Launches ‘Joint Venture’

After ‘secretly’ meeting and discussing with retail store staffers last week, Apple now officially launched Joint Venture, a program designed to help small businesses make profitable use of their Macs, iPhones, and iPads. Through Joint Venture, a $499-a year service, Apple is dedicated to setting users...

4 March 2011
04:54 GMT

Apple Poised to Introduce ‘Joint Venture,’ a Service for Small Businesses

The rumored meeting for Apple retail store employees has been confirmed by several sources. The details are now out: Apple has trained staffers to offer advanced and priority technical support to small businesses, in what is the company's upcoming "Joint Venture" service.Earlier this month, an Apple-centric sour...

1 March 2011
04:42 GMT

Toshiba and SanDisk Collaborate on New NAND Factory

Now that it has, more or less, finished with the largest part of new PC releases, Toshiba seems to have decided upon focusing on a different aspect of its business. Apparently, the company figured it was time for a serious boost to its NAND Flash memory offering. As such, it approached SanDisk, another major NAND Fl...

14 July 2010
10:51 GMT

T-Mobile – Orange UK to Unveil New Brand Tomorrow

T-Mobile and Orange are reportedly set to unveil on May 11 the identity of their joint venture in the UK. The two companies announced the merging of their operations in the country a while ago, yet no specific details on the leadership team, the joint-venture's future plans and the likes were provided until now....

10 May 2010
13:12 GMT

T-Mobile USA Considers Clearwire Joint Venture

T-Mobile USA, the United States subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom, is reportedly in talks with Clearwire for the possible creation of a joint venture that will enable it to improve its wireless spectrum opportunities. According to a recent article on Reuters, T-Mobile USA's CEO Robert Dotson confirmed talks with c...

19 March 2010
05:39 GMT

Orange and T-Mobile to Speed Up Merger's Approval

Wireless carriers Orange and T-Mobile UK announced last year plans to merge their operations in a joint-venture that will better compete on the mobile phone market in the country, and now they unveiled new plans regarding the deal. The duo aims at offering 25 percent of their 1800MHz spectrum to other carriers in th...

22 February 2010
02:45 GMT

Nokia and New Alliance Form Chinese Joint Venture

Espoo, Finland-based mobile phone maker Nokia announced today that it had teamed with New Alliance, an investment company, part of the Shanghai Alliance Investment Ltd, for the forming of a 50/50 joint venture company in China. According to the company, the new entity will be aimed at the delivery of a series of mob...

9 December 2009
05:56 GMT

Comcast and GE to Combine NBCU and Comcast's Cable Networks into a Joint Venture

Comcast, the greatest US cable and Internet/broadband provider, and General Electric decided to pool their resources, each contributing with their services, networks and finest technology in order to bring about the establishment of a leading media and entertainment company combining both partners' arrays of net...

3 December 2009
10:51 GMT

Orange and T-Mobile Form UK Joint Venture

Deutsche Telekom and France Telecom have agreed on plans to merge their operations in the UK, namely T-Mobile UK and Orange UK. As many of you might already know, the companies announced about two months ago that they were negotiating a possible merger of the two wireless operators, and it seems that now the agreemen...

6 November 2009
03:19 GMT

T-Mobile UK to Merge with Orange UK

It seems that T-Mobile UK might have finally found a new family, as the company announced today a merger with Orange UK. The struggled Deutsche Telekom subsidiary has been reportedly put on sale by its parent company, with all other three major carriers in the UK interested in its acquisition: Orange, O2 and Vodafone...

8 September 2009
02:26 GMT

Verizon and Qualcomm Announce M2M-Centered Joint Venture

Verizon Wireless and Qualcomm Incorporated announced on Tuesday an agreement that involves forming a joint venture aimed at offering machine-to-machine (M2M) wireless communications, as well as smart services over a wide range of market areas, such as healthcare, manufacturing, utilities, distribution and consumer pr...

29 July 2009
08:21 GMT

Sony and Ericsson to Inject $1.3 Billion in Their Joint Venture

The struggling Japanese – Swedish joint venture Sony Ericsson is reported to need a cash infusion from its parent companies in order to pass through the rough financial problems that affect it. According to The Financial Times, the mobile phone maker might be in need of as much as $1.3 billion by the end of the...

8 May 2009
06:22 GMT

Ericsson Will Sustain Sony Ericsson, CEO Says

It seems that the Japanese-Swedish joint venture Sony Ericsson still has some more time to live before falling apart, as Ericsson, a leading mobile telecom equipment maker, stated on Wednesday that it intended to pump money into the company in case it needed it, something that should put an end to previous rumors tha...

24 April 2009
06:28 GMT

Sony and Ericsson Might Break Up After All

It seems that the joint venture between Sony and Ericsson might come to an end after all. There have been a lot of speculations going around about the breakup between the two companies, and it seems that the infrastructure provider, Ericsson, has finally decided that it is time to leave the mobile phone game and retu...

19 March 2009
03:36 GMT

SanDisk to Own Less of the Manufacturing Joint Venture with Toshiba

Following reports that Toshiba has bought Fujitsu's hard disk drive business, SanDisk has just announced that it will own less of the manufacturing joint venture with Toshiba. The two companies have reached a definitive agreement according to which SanDisk will transfer more than 20 percent of its equipment leas...

30 January 2009
05:47 GMT

Sony Sells Chip Facility for $835 Million, Toshiba Ramps Up Capacity

Sony has just announced that it will sell its microprocessor production facilities in western Japan to Toshiba in exchange of $835 million. The purchase agreement is one of the final steps the companies are taking in order to consolidate their business partnership.The inventory located at the chip production facility...

20 February 2008
11:57 GMT

Fujitsu to Spin Off Its Semiconductor Business

Fujitsu has announced its plans of spinning off its semiconductor unit, as part of the company's initiative to reform its LSI business. The semiconductor industry is a harsh battlefield and, many times, competing companies have to make alliances with their rivals in order to stay on the market. Some other times,...

22 January 2008
04:42 GMT

Canon, Matsushita and Hitachi Strike Billions Out Of LCD Business

LCD panels are present everywhere, from the portable gaming systems and cell phones to the wide display in the living room or the huge billboards on the American skyscrapers. The demand is so high that more and more manufacturers emerge in this sector and powerful alliances are continually forming to defend their sup...

28 December 2007
04:35 GMT

Infineon And Sony Jointly Design DRAM Modules

As developing a whole new computer hardware technology can be very expensive and even producing large quantities of hardware parts screams for big funding, more and more companies are forming joint ventures in order to split costs, risks and profits. A brand new partnership is now in the making as Sony announced that...

2 October 2007
10:29 GMT

ASUS and Gigabyte Will Not Attend CeBIT 2008

According to a DigiTimes.com website, ASUStek and Gigabyte Technology will not be attending the 2008 edition of CeBIT. It comes as no surprise as more and more companies have announced they're withdrawing from the trade fair, the main reason being that it's expensive to take up a booth at CeBIT and the prof...

22 March 2007
12:05 GMT


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