Procurement has always been the low-hanging fruit when it comes to corporate cost savings. As any sourcing or procurement executive knows, purchased goods and services account for a little more than half of every dollar of revenue, and 80 percent of the cost of these goods and services is set by the...
Numerous venture capitalists are nursing wounds sustained when companies collapsed and stopped going public at a record clip. But most of the VC firms that can trace their roots back to the pre-boom era are still hanging on, if not thriving. "Those who came late to the party and tried to grab all...
Japanese Internet venture investor Softbank has sold its remaining stake in E*Trade, taking a loss as part of an effort to realign its holdings and reduce its exposure to the dot-com world. Softbank said it sold a total of 12 million shares of E*Trade stock for $3.60 each, raising $43 million. Wh...
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