Raikes, who was president of the business division, was one of the most influential figures at Microsoft.
Raikes, 49, joined Microsoft in 1981, and was instrumental in building Microsoft's business division into the Redmond, Wash.
Acer has since established a business division dedicated to the development and management of tablets and smartphones.
Verizon's big-business division, meanwhile, is building data centers, and apparently not quickly enough.
Witnessing an increase in orders for all its business division, Cree claims that the LED market dynamics are improving.
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For starters, Elop until he came to Nokia was president of the Microsoft Business Division, so he has close to Redmond.
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"Our fundamental strategy is around broadening the definition of productivity, " says Stephen Elop, president of Microsoft's Business Division, the company's largest unit.
The role of the technology strategist is therefore as essential as that of the head of the business division that is using the technology.
That doesn't include sales of its Office desktop software, which are lumped into the Business Division along with enterprise software, and swing with Windows.
The high-wealth group, housed in the IRS's large- and medium-sized business division, marks a sharpening of the IRS approach to auditing the very wealthy.
"From the beginning, we have said that an open format means more choice for consumers, " says Steve Haber, president of Sony's Digital Reading Business Division.
Otis elevators and escalators is the largest business division of United Technologies, constituting nearly 30% of the overall company value according to our analysis.
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Yang had originally wanted a separate consumer business division to lead the charge, according to Grabe, but Amelio argued that that might undermine the geographic heads.
"Consumers should not have to worry about which device works with which store, " said Steve Haber, president of Sony's digital reading business division, in a statement.
Raikes, who was president of the business division, was one of the most influential figures at Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ).
We know thousands of people are dying every year in Japan because this device isnt available, says Stephen Mahle, president of Medtronics Pacing Business division, which makes defibrillators.
Put it all together and Dell makes 38% of its gross profit in the consumer and small business division from "nonsystem revenues, " up from 31% a year ago.
Kahn, director of Wharton's undergraduate business division, told Business Week.
The venture-business division of Fujitsu, a leading computer maker, is nurturing 11 companies, two of which Alpha Omega Soft, a software house, and Fuji Online System, an Internet bookshop it plans to list.
The announcement comes just a week after Microsoft tapped Stephen Elop, chief operating officer of Juniper Networks, to replace company veteran Jeff Raikes in the high-profile job of business division president.
We also note that a potential bundling of Office into WOA devices only could drive the price of WOA devices higher, but in this case the Microsoft Business Division segment would see some revenue headwind.
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However, a closer look at segment performance revealed weak Windows revenue and profit, which were offset by stronger results in the Business Division (which sells Office) and Server and Tools (the enterprise part of the company).
"The Samsung Series 7 Slate PC was designed for on-the-go users who need a slim, lightweight computer but can't afford to sacrifice true PC functionality, " said Scott Ledterman, director of mobile PC marketing at Samsung Enterprise Business Division.
"Traditionally, you could not get small business financing from banks until you had two to five years of financials to present to them, " says Patrick Gannon, a senior vice president at Lending Club and a former executive at Wells Fargo's small business division.
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Microsoft's sprawling business division now competes with Cisco for the business of digitizing office voice communications (bolstered by Raikes' acquisition of voice-recognition software specialist Tellme last March) and Elop will have to take on online threats to Microsoft's productivity software, such as the free online productivity tools offered by Google, as well.
Microsoft's sprawling business division now competes with Cisco (nasdaq: CSCO - news - people ) for the business of digitizing office voice communications (bolstered by Raikes' acquisition of voice-recognition software specialist Tellme last March) and Elop will have to take on online threats to Microsoft's productivity software, such as the free online productivity tools offered by Google (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ), as well.
He is also expected to devote resources to several emerging lines of business, including online business software division Google Apps, and to continue to make acquisitions of start-ups.
Until his appointment to the top job, Rohner, who has a PhD in economics from the University of Zurich, was the head of the bank's Global Wealth Management and Business Banking division.
His briefcase bulges with the incessant output of the business-books division that every struggling publisher has now set up.
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