Six technology centres will be built, four in the US and two abroad, with KPMG hiring 4,000 engineers and service professionals over the next 18 months. Cisco Systems has invested $1bn in accounting and consulting firm, KPMG, in return for a 20 per...
Prior to the arrival of wireless broadband engineers visitors to Modalen tended to use it as a base for walking in the surrounding hills and mountains. Modalen, a small village in Norway, has been chosen for an experiment in which the whole town...
We want to get [innovations] to market without the delays that occur in the IEEE," said Rossi, referring to the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, an industry body that often sets standards.
Initially, Cisco will employ about 10 engineers, who will work on enhancements to its IOS routing software and extensions for its IOS XR software, which was developed for its latest high-end router, the CRS-1.
The company is set to announce it's buying Five Across, an 11-person company based in San Francisco which has developed software that allows large companies to easily add social-networking features to their websites without needing to hire a team...
My favourite kind of company to acquire is one with 100 engineers who have a hot product they are just about to release. On Tuesday, Cisco reported profits for its fourth fiscal quarter 2008 were up 4.4 per cent to $2bn on revenue that climbed 9.9...