"We're used to competition, " said Traug Keller, ESPN senior vice president, production, business divisions.
Security Software for businesses could very well become one of its most profitable business divisions.
FORBES: Symantec To Hit $20 With Boost From 03 Cloud Security Service
The sale of business divisions like Bebo and ICQ in 2010 also contributed to the decline in unique visitors.
Business divisions like the film studio, the stuffed-animal division and publishing have always made product decisions independently without consulting one another.
For example, you can select which sets of data or applications you want for different business divisions and locations and determine its uptime.
Microsoft, in particular, did well, with rising revenue and profit, mostly the result of strength in the Server and Tools and Business divisions.
FORBES: Within Trend From PCs To Phones Lies Samsung's Besting Of Apple
The second ranked item is reorganizing internal business divisions and processes.
Though AOL sold a few of its business divisions, it also made several acquisitions like Patch.com, StudioNow, TechCrunch, 5Min Media, Thing Labs and Pictela last year.
Before this week's meeting with the government, Allianz, less tied to physical capital, had been threatening to reduce its tax base in Germany by moving some international business divisions abroad, again draining jobs from Germany.
"Giving sports fans the freedom to enjoy their favorite team and events when they're not in the stadium or in front of a television is very important to us, " said Traug Keller, Senior Vice President, Production Business Divisions, ESPN, Inc.
ENGADGET: Slacker now streaming six ESPN stations, Radio and Deportes amongst them
"Competition among business divisions" over which one had the "youngest" receivables "has stimulated the posting of memo entries in advance of actuals, " Folk, the revenue operations chief, wrote in a 1997 e-mail quoted in a lawsuit later filed by an MCI partner.
Its consumer electronics and business electronics divisions, and its business making components such as screens and semiconductors, are strong and share enough features to gain from each other's presence.
Overall, growth at Comcast's broadband, business services and advertising divisions in the second quarter helped offset more modest revenue gains at the cable distributor's video subscription business.
WSJ: NBC to Almost Break Even on Olympics; Comcast Profit Rises on Broadband
And that's even without the benefit of the billions worth of costs Microsoft's online services business shares with money-spewing divisions built around Microsoft's operating system and business software.
Alibaba announced a reorganization in January to transform its seven business units into 25 smaller divisions to compete more effectively in China's turbulent Internet market.
The most challenged of all of News Corporation's divisions is its newspaper business, which contributes one-fifth of its operating income.
Meanwhile, at ICICI she went on to lead one of the divisions of the corporate finance business in 1993.
If you want to read the Lords' ruling, House of Lords - Assistance in the Chamber, Divisions, House of Lords Business - Procedure of the House Committee, here it is.
They tell me, and we have seen some confirmation of this, that they are actually ramping up some of their small business lending and setting up more aggressive divisions actively seeking out loans.
WHITEHOUSE: President Obama Takes Questions from Senate Democrats
Dell spokesman Matt Parretta told Forbes the company has not made any announcements about new mobile divisions since Dell realigned its business groups in January to form what it calls its Communications Solutions Group.
In order for a business to thrive, it helps if all divisions, departments and teams within the company also earn more money than they spend.
This might be its last major asset sale as it been selling off its non-core divisions to focus more on its main business offering.
FORBES: NYT's Stock Looks Expensive Unless It Can Get Its Digital Business Moving
Through his work with the Tennessee branch of the insurance company, Smith has been able to land business with Blue Cross Blue Shield's other divisions.
During a conference call Tuesday, Ahmass Fakahany chief administrative officer, noted that business in both Merrill's institutional and retail divisions started to slow in March and added that the trend had accelerated into April.
The DVD rental business was the clear driver of results as their other divisions experienced revenue declines.
Instead of four product divisions, two would focus on customers (business and consumer) and two on technology (computers and printers).
Given the status of such firms as America's General Electric, it has also become clearer that conglomerates work only if each business faces stringent management and performance targets, and that divisions which fail must be dealt with ruthlessly.
Other drug companies have been shedding "non-core" divisions lately--but none have shed a business this big.
Total group sales were up 4.6% for the year, but in its retail sales divisions - which exclude Halfords' car-servicing business line - they were down 5.3%.
The business model of holding companies treats disparate agency brands as distinct financial divisions.
FORBES: Dedicated, Single-Client Agencies Are Like Arranged Marriages, And Just As Exciting
应用推荐