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China's QQ coming after MSN and Skype

I was in a Cisco briefing the other day and an executive mentioned a service in China called QQ. It is an instant messaging service and it has taken China by storm. QQ is owned by Tencent and the company is releasing an enterprise version of QQ to compete...

Published Fri, Sep 26 2008 10:09 AM by Paolo Del Nibletto

Filed under: Skype, North america, Tencent, Web site

MetaFore is not acquiring Xwave

Late last night I got a call from Bryant Jackson, the CEO of MetaFore and he told CDN that any talk of a proposed MetaFore/Xwave deal is incorrect. He also said that no deal is being discussed, nor were there any discussions between the two firms about...

Published Tue, Sep 23 2008 7:09 AM by Paolo Del Nibletto

Filed under: Jackson, Chief executive officer, Advanced battery developer, Practice

Metafore to buy Xwave? Anything is possible

This is the type of story that just will not go away despite the denials from Xwave . In the middle of last week one of my trusted sources told me that MetaFore was acquiring Xwave. I called Xwave's director of communications Karen Ewing, who after some...

Published Mon, Sep 22 2008 8:09 AM by Paolo Del Nibletto

Filed under: Xwave, Metafore, Acquisitions

Another departure at Ingram Micro Canada?

In what will be viewed by many in the channel as a shock, long time Ingram Micro Canada executive Mike Gazdic has been given his walking papers by the distributor, according to one outside source with knowledge of the situation. CDN has been unable to...

Published Wed, Sep 03 2008 9:09 AM by Paolo Del Nibletto

Filed under: Mike, Ingram micro