Business

Talk about ill-gotten gains: Coronavirus KOs Xerox's $30bn months-long hostile takeover bid of HP Inc

Turmoil in the financial markets fells ambitious acquisition plan

Personal Tech31 Mar 2020 | 17

Remember that Sonos speaker you bought a few years back that works perfectly? It's about to be screwed for... reasons

Updated Planned obsolescence strikes again

Edge + IoT21 Jan 2020 | 278

Yeah, you better, you... you better tell us how you're misusing people's data, privacy, watchdog suggests to US telcos

Cellular networks asked nicely to 'fess up or something might, maybe, happen some day

Security27 Mar 2019 | 7

Another way to look at Amazon's counterfeit-busting Project Zero: Making merchants cough up protection money

Analysis It's up to you to stop fake stuff going on sale in our cyber-bazaar, says multibillion-dollar biz

Personal Tech28 Feb 2019 | 30

Sick of bandwidth gouging? Cloudflare, Google, Microsoft, IBM have some good news

Updated Bandwidth Alliance decides to throw us a bone

Networks26 Sep 2018 | 6

Facebook tells users to report crappy customer service from advertisers

Threatens to ban ads from businesses with low marks

Personal Tech12 Jun 2018 | 19

Republican tax bill ready to rescue hard-up tech giants, struggling rich

Procedural snafu delays vote until Wednesday – but here's basically what's in it

On-Prem20 Dec 2017 | 111

Tech VCs sue Uncle Sam over President Trump's immigration chill

We can't throw money at nerds if they can't get here, wail Silicon Valley's sugar daddies

Legal02 Oct 2017 | 21

Bespoke vending machine biz Bodega AI trips cultural landmine

Plan to dehumanize shopping taken as threat to beloved mom-and-pop stores

On-Prem14 Sep 2017 | 19

Give staff privacy at work, Euro human rights court tells bosses

Management must consider employees' rights in workplace policy

Security06 Sep 2017 | 36

Brexit, schmexit: Christmas sales up 4 per cent at Dixons Carphone

Firm defies forecasts despite warnings of 'uncertain times'

On-Prem24 Jan 2017 | 12

Jeremy Hunt pockets £14m through sale of course search website

Health Secretary makes a mint. Good for him, right?

On-Prem16 Jan 2017 | 45

Korean cargo line bailout saves Christmas for tech companies

HP and Samsung had goods stranded at sea by container line's bankruptcy

Channel23 Sep 2016 | 6

Insure against a cyberwhat now? How the heck do we crunch those numbers?

Pushing for creation of cyberattack database

Channel24 May 2016 | 21

Wait... who broke that? Things you need to do to make your world diagnosable

Crisis management: Audit, access – the whole shebang

On-Prem24 Mar 2016 | 27

New data porting rules mustn't overburden businesses with costs, says UK minister

Costliness shouldn't become 'barrier to entry'

Channel16 Dec 2015 | 7

E.ON fined £7m for smart meter fail

Business customers not hooked up, time to cough up

Legal09 Nov 2015 | 72

Virgin Media boss urges UK watchdogs not to pick wrong BT battle

Broadband World Forum Meanwhile, biz wing of telco to offer SMBs a broadband boost

Legal20 Oct 2015 | 11

Junk your IT. Now. Before it drags you under

Legacy systems tie you to unproductive legacy thinking and lead to stagnation

On-Prem15 Oct 2015 | 81

Slashdot, SourceForge looking for new owners after parent dumps them on the web's doorstep

Maybe a media and software company might like them better

Legal28 Jul 2015 | 28

Daddy Dyson keeps it in the family and hoovers up son’s energy biz

That must suck for anyone looking to launch a takeover

On-Prem10 Apr 2015 | 36

IBM sued for talking up semiconductor business it couldn't give away

Firm alleges investors didn't realize Big Blue would need to PAY to have its chips hauled off

Channel03 Mar 2015 | 23

Mighty Blighty broadbanders beg: Let us lay cable in BT's, er, ducts

Updated Complain to Ofcom that telco has 'effective monopoly'

Networks24 Nov 2014 | 58

Can you really run your business on a smartphone?

We face the challenge

Personal Tech05 Nov 2014 | 59

'Careful management of headcount' for Juniper after tepid quarter

Translation: the razor's swinging, at customers and in Juniper's back office

Channel24 Oct 2014 |

Symantec's already virtually split, says letter to suppliers

Single back office expected to persist until end of 2015

Channel17 Oct 2014 | 1

Intel prods PC market's corpse, corpse shouts 'I'M NOT DEAD!'

Chip giant raises revenue expectations after signs of life flicker in biz boxen

Channel12 Jun 2014 | 6

Chin up, tech world. Gartner says it'll be OK

Worldwide spend to reach $3.6 TREEELLION in 2014

Channel02 Apr 2014 | 1

Telecom New Zealand exits Australia with AAPT sale

TPG gets intercapital fibre at last

On-Prem08 Dec 2013 | 2

PEAK iPAD: Slab looking a bit peaky, needs big biz to take more tablets

Sales stall, lack of innovation and absence of Microsoft Office blamed

Personal Tech08 Aug 2013 | 46

Child porn hidden in legit hacked websites: 100s redirected to sick images

So warns the Internet Watch Foundation

Security05 Aug 2013 | 88

'The Apprentice' is a load of old codswallop, says biz prof

Flogging your gran for a bag of chips is actually a crap deal

On-Prem02 Jul 2013 | 109

Biz email slinger Mimecast tumbles over

'Makes me look a tool for recommending them' sniffs bloke

Networks16 May 2013 | 7

Carl Icahn may be planning to block Dell buyout

Has gobbled up 100 million shares in two weeks

On-Prem07 Mar 2013 | 8

The business mullet: Cool or tool?

Open ... and Shut When testosterone dresses itself....

On-Prem08 Feb 2013 | 69

When your squash partner 'endorses' your coding skills on LinkedIn...

Biz-social media - thumbs-up or ballsup?

Software28 Dec 2012 | 87

Vodafone phone and mobe biz service goes titsup

Hello? Hello? Is anyone there?

Networks24 Aug 2012 | 17

Experts: Firms need to come clean about cyber attacks

LCC Dutch counter-terrorism head says gov was last to know on DigiNotar hack

Security02 Nov 2011 | 3

HP pops out all-in-one biz boxes

Touchscreen for corporate show-offs

Channel07 Sep 2011 | 17

AMD's new CEO bobs, weaves, says 'big' and 'fast' are good

Read reveals little in first day on the job

Channel25 Aug 2011 | 25

UK.gov opens Red Tape Challenge regulation-slash website

Cameron demands deregulated ice-cream van jingles

Legal07 Apr 2011 | 37

Five essential BlackBerry apps for business

Widgets while you work

Applications31 Jan 2011 | 5

Small biz calls for end date on enhanced 17.5% VAT

Good luck with that, chaps

Channel04 Jan 2011 | 35

UK.gov relaxes patent application process

Enormous backlog to be plopped onto files

Channel31 Dec 2010 | 11

Mobile phones: Where does the money go?

Android licensees risk the WinMobile Disease - analyst

Networks20 Aug 2010 |

Does business really care about security?

Workshop Poll Results Or is it just feigning interest?

Security28 Jun 2010 | 15

Recession forces software escrow releases to jump by 150%

Save the code, save your world

Software06 Jan 2010 | 6

Former AMD kingpin gives Intel hell

Derides 'monopolist defense'

Channel24 Sep 2009 | 13

Intel execs shift seats as Gelsinger departs

One business group to rule them all

Channel14 Sep 2009 | 1

The Reg takes on storage platforms

Regcast What Reg readers are doing - and what they want

Channel26 May 2009 |

Prof: Fat ladies don't get to be CEOs, lardy blokes do

Greasy pole, glass ceiling stymie chubbette biz execs

Bootnotes08 Apr 2009 | 18

Arms biz glovepuppets Parliamentary kit probe

Comment Profiteers' voices the only ones heard

Legal27 Feb 2009 | 16

Send old Shuttles to Mars, says Scotty ashes prang man

Admits they would land with 'a pretty good thump'

Science07 Jan 2009 | 67

Brits decline to 'think outside the box'

Don't want to 'touch base', either

Bootnotes28 Nov 2008 | 112

Are you making the most of your IT?

RegCast El Reg and the experts tackle IT effectiveness live

On-Prem03 Nov 2008 |

Italy, Poland threaten veto on EU green package

Eco versus economics

Legal16 Oct 2008 | 13