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Memo to Small Business: RingCentral Will Take Your Calls

Bill_Robinson | Posted 05.24.2012

Read More: Cisco Systems, Sequoia Capital, Ringcentral, Vlad Shmunis, Silicon Valley Bank, Khosla Ventures, Technology News

Small businesses have always had a simple but nonetheless nagging problem: answering their phones with a consistent, professional presence.

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Cisco Making Biggest Purchase In Years

AP | BARBARA ORTUTAY | Posted 05.15.2012

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NEW YORK — Cisco Systems Inc. is buying digital video technology company NDS Group Ltd. to enhance the range of products it sells to pay-TV prov...

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Huge Initiative Targets Some Of Nation's Lowest-Performing Schools

AP | By LAWRENCE MESSINA | Posted 01.17.2012

Read More: Video, West Virginia Schools, American Federation of Teachers, School Turnaround, Randi Weingarten, Alpha Natural Resources, Mcdowell County, West Virginia, Cisco Systems, Turnaround Schools, Education Reform, River View High, Mcdowell County Schools, Reconnecting Mcdowell, Building America Community Development Enterprise, Education News

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- A coalition that includes a Fortune 500 company, labor unions and nonprofit foundations outlined plans Thursday to spend the next...

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GRAPHIC: Inequality In America

The Huffington Post | Posted 12.01.2011

Read More: visual.ly, Minimum Wage, Unemployment, John Chambers, Pay Gap, Income Inequality, Cisco Systems, CEO Compensation, Gini Coefficient, Infographic, Business News

Since September, the Occupy Wall Street protests has focused greater attention on America's huge wealth gap between the rich and everyone else. But wh...

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Cisco Tech Chief Outlines The Advantages Of Being A Woman In Tech

HuffingtonPost.com | Bianca Bosker | Posted 12.27.2011

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Cisco Systems' chief technology officer Padmasree Warrior is one of the most powerful women in Silicon Valley. She is responsible for around two-th...

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PHOTOS: Hallmark's Job Loss Cards

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 11.27.2011

Read More: Mass Layoffs, Hallmark, The Detroit News, Npr, Job Cuts, Unemployment Rate, Bank of America, Cisco Systems, Jobless, Borders, Greeting Cards, Hallmark Job Loss Cards, Hallmark Unemployment Cards, Hallmark Cards on Jobloss, Hallmark Layoff Cards, Video, Business News

"Don't think of it as losing your job, think of it as a time-out between stupid bosses." That's just one of the many comforting sentiments that tha...

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Will Cisco Lose Its CEO?

Posted 11.13.2011

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By Nadia Damouni and Nicola Leske (Reuters) - When John Chambers takes to the stage on Tuesday, many will be wondering if it is the last time t...

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Cisco's Q4 2011 Results Top Estimates

AP | By MICHAEL LIEDTKE | Posted 10.11.2011

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SAN FRANCISCO -- Cisco Systems Inc. provided a small measure of comfort to the battered stock market late Wednesday with quarterly results that unders...

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Cisco Could Eliminate 10,000 Jobs To Revive Profit Growth

Posted 09.11.2011

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Networking equipment company Cisco Systems Inc could eliminate as many as 10,000 jobs, or about 14 percent of its workforce, to revive profit grow...

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Cisco Said To Be Helping China Install Massive Surveillance System

The Huffington Post | Amy Lee | Posted 09.04.2011

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A network of over 500,000 cameras designed for massive video surveillance across the Chinese city of Chongqing is in the works, according too the Wall...

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Give Flip Cameras a New and Better Life

Tamar Abrams | Posted 06.14.2011

Read More: Smartphone, Humanitarian, Kibera, John Chambers, Cisco Systems, Nairobi, Smithsonian, Technology, Flip Camera, Smart Phone, Impact News

There are places on this planet where the Flip camera can change a life.

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Cisco's CEO Vows 'Bold Changes' As Investors Worry

AP | By JORDAN ROBERTSON | Posted 06.06.2011

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SAN FRANCISCO -- Cisco Systems Inc. CEO John Chambers is calling his company's recent missteps "unacceptable" and is vowing to take "bold steps" to na...

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10 Companies To Own For The Next Decade: 24/7 Wall Street

24/7 Wall Street | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Best Stocks 2010, American Electric Power, Water Works Company, Kimberly-Clark Corp, Best Stocks to Buy 2010, Cisco Systems, Business News, Top Companies, Stock Market Growth, Investor Watch List, Business News

Picking stocks for a decade is no easy task. It might as well be for a lifetime because there probably will be two more bear markets and two more bul...

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From Russia With Love: The "Reset" Continues

William Bradley | Posted 05.25.2011

It certainly looked like Dmitry Medvedev had a good time on his first trip to America last week as Russia's president. It was all a far cry from the bleak old days of the Cold War.

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We in the theatre have known for a long, long time that the show must go on. I'd venture to say that there's only one man in Washington who knows this in his bones -- National Endowment for the Arts chair, Rocco Landesman.

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Cisco Agrees To Buy Norway's Tandberg For $3 Billion

AP | PETER SVENSSON | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK — Cisco Systems Inc. tapped its immense cash hoard and announced a deal Thursday to buy Norway's Tandberg ASA for $3 billion in a bid t...

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Cisco Janitors Take to the Streets

Natasha Chen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: CEO Pay, Paul Fong, San Jose, John Chambers, Stimulus Package, Cisco Systems, Justice for Janitors, American Building Maintenance, Jones Lang LaSalle, Barack Obama, Silicon Valley, Seiu, San Jose-California, Milpitas-California, Home News

Chanting "No peace outside, no respect inside" and "Si se puede," workers filed down East Tasman Dr., where Cisco's tens of buildings line both sides of the street.

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Protests Across Country Focus on Workers' Strife, Citizen Journalists Report

Matthew Palevsky | Posted 05.25.2011

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Reporting by Natasha Chen, Daniel Howes, Karen Kilpowicz, Pamela Mays McDonald, Linda R. Monk, Dorothy Noble, Elizabeth Ross, Jim Stevenson, Betty Ten...

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The Business of Service

Jonathan Greenblatt | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Cityyear, Community Service, Ethos Water, Inauguration Day 2009, Obama Transition Team, National Service, Patagonia, Teach for America, Americorps, Youthbuild, GOOD Magazine, Barack Obama, MLK Day, Peace Corps, Cisco Systems, Obama Service, Service, Healthy Living News

The corporations and small businesses that power American growth and shape our society could be the fuel that turbo-charges our vision of national service.

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Silicon Valley Rethinks Cubicles For Employees

Wall Street Journal | DON CLARK | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cisco Systems, Intel Corp, Office Cubicle, Hewlett-Packard, Business News

Intel Corp. is often credited, or blamed, for popularizing the office cubicle. Now it is joining some prominent Silicon Valley peers in reconsidering ...

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