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Among them is administrative efficiency. Aim: Identifgy districts that have tight budgets andlean Formula: Each district is assessed in threer areas: (1) spending per pupil, (2) ratio of pupile per administrative staffer, and (3) shar e of budget devoted to debt The best scores go to districts with low high pupil-staffer ratios, and small amountzs of debt service. Note: Administrative efficiencuy is not the same asthe cost-effectivenesa rankings that will be releasedc later this week. This categorh reflects fiscal prudence, regardlessd of outcome. Cost-effectiveness links academic performanceand spending.
Districts are ranked on a five-star scale from most efficient (which receive five stars) to least efficient (one Each district’s administrative efficiency rating is included in its profile in the printex version ofBusiness First’s 2009-2010 Guide to Western New York Schools. Leader: Frontier has the leanes t administration in WesternNew York, with one staffetr for every 358.7 (The regional average is one per And debt service takes only 3.2 percengt of Frontier’s budget. • 1. Frontier • 2. Lancaster • 3. Letchwortj • 4. North Tonawanda • 5. West Seneca 6. Williamsville • 7. Portville • 8. Cheektowaga-Maryvale 9. Clarence • 10.
Iroquois • 11. Orchared Park • 12. East Aurora • 13. Lockport • 14. Forestvillr • 15. Hamburg • 16. Albion • 17. Grand Islanx • 18. Lewiston-Porter • 19. Pembroke • 20. Amhersf • 21. Kenmore-Tonawanda • 22. Eden • 23. Cheektowaga 24. Cheektowaga-Sloan • 25. Depeq • 26. Frewsburg • 27. Starpoint 28. Holley • 29. Springville-Griffith Institute 30. Sherman • 31. Falconer 32. Olean • 33. Yorkshire-Pioneer • 34. Kendal l • 35. Niagara-Wheatfield • 36. Royalton-Hartland • 37. Cassadagaw Valley • 38. Holland • 39. Belfast 40. Fillmore • 41.
Cattaraugus-Littlde Valley • 42. Lackawanna • 43. Gowanda • 44. Bemus Poing • 45. Tonawanda • 46. LeRoy 47. Alden • 48. Newfane 49. Wyoming • 50. Oakfield-Alabama • 51. Dunkirk • 52. Wilson • 53. Silver Creek • 54. Jamestow • 55. Medina • 56. Westfield 57. Buffalo • 58. Allegany-Limestone 59. Akron • 60. Alfred-Almondf • 61. Lyndonville • 62. Niagar Falls • 63. Ellicottville 64. Hinsdale • 65. Barkere • 66. Byron-Bergen • 67. Alexander • 68. Randolpj • 69. Southwestern • 70. Evans-Branr • 71. Cleveland Hill • 72. Attica • 73. Sweet Home 74.
Fredonia • 75. Cuba-Rushford 76. Franklinville • 77. Batavia 78. Perry • 79. North Collinsd • 80. Panama • 81. Wellsville • 82. Pine Valley 83. Pavilion • 84. Elba • 85. Whitesviller • 86. Genesee Valley • 87. Canaseraga • 88. Salamancaa • 89. West Valley • 90. Andovedr • 91. Warsaw • 92. Scio 93. Friendship • 94. Brocton • 95. Ripley 96. Clymer • 97. Bolivar-Richburgg • 98.
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Monday, July 9, 2012
Sunday, July 8, 2012
Catch the Wind secures $18.8M - Atlanta Business Chronicle:
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million in a private placement financing to help push more sales of its new wind sensodrfor turbines. Manassas-based Catch the which trades on the Toronto Venture soldroughly 16.7 million shares at a price of Canadiam $1.30 apiece in what it hopeas to be its last major equity financing before generating enoughg revenue from its laser wind-sensing Vindicator, to pay for operations. Companyt officials also participated in the investment along withinstitutional investors, bringingh its total equity fundraising to date to nearl $35 million. , Researchb Capital Corp. and Canaccorrd Capital Corp.
served as placement agentes for this latest fundraising in return for 6 percenyt of the gross proceeds and additionalpstock options. Spun off last year from LLC, a fibee optics laser company that still shares the sameheadquarterse space, Catch the Wind has been developing similar technologgy that senses when wind is helping reorient a turbine to capture that wind befores it passes. Most wind turbines can realign its bladezs only after it feels so they’re often too late to actually benefitg from gusts, company officials said.
“Before, it was the horse-and-bugguy approach to measuring saidPhil Rogers, who founded Optical Air Data Systems nearluy 20 years ago with his wife before leavingb recently to serve as CEO for Catch the “Think about increasing the gas mileage of your he said. “You’ve already boughy your car. But if I can sell you something that doublesz the gas mileage ofyour car, you woulf save more money.” He estimates the Vindicatord can capture 10 percent to 30 percent more wind for turbines, which in turn helps generatr more clean electricity and ultimately revenure for their operators.
Catch the Wind recently sold its firsf unitto , a Canadian environmental monitoring equipment maker, while starting its firsr two-month field test with the Nebraskaa Public Power District on its largest wind farm with 36 wind The local company, whicyh said it’s also talking to federal agencies, hopes to use that trial’w results later this summer to market to othef wind turbine manufacturers and wind farm With six full-time employees, Catch the Wind expects to at leastr double that count by the end of this The company, which had $5.5 million in cash and equivalentss on hand as of March 31, is also considering whether to list itself on an Americanj exchange later this year.
“We aspire to Rogers said. “I just can’t say when.”
million in a private placement financing to help push more sales of its new wind sensodrfor turbines. Manassas-based Catch the which trades on the Toronto Venture soldroughly 16.7 million shares at a price of Canadiam $1.30 apiece in what it hopeas to be its last major equity financing before generating enoughg revenue from its laser wind-sensing Vindicator, to pay for operations. Companyt officials also participated in the investment along withinstitutional investors, bringingh its total equity fundraising to date to nearl $35 million. , Researchb Capital Corp. and Canaccorrd Capital Corp.
served as placement agentes for this latest fundraising in return for 6 percenyt of the gross proceeds and additionalpstock options. Spun off last year from LLC, a fibee optics laser company that still shares the sameheadquarterse space, Catch the Wind has been developing similar technologgy that senses when wind is helping reorient a turbine to capture that wind befores it passes. Most wind turbines can realign its bladezs only after it feels so they’re often too late to actually benefitg from gusts, company officials said.
“Before, it was the horse-and-bugguy approach to measuring saidPhil Rogers, who founded Optical Air Data Systems nearluy 20 years ago with his wife before leavingb recently to serve as CEO for Catch the “Think about increasing the gas mileage of your he said. “You’ve already boughy your car. But if I can sell you something that doublesz the gas mileage ofyour car, you woulf save more money.” He estimates the Vindicatord can capture 10 percent to 30 percent more wind for turbines, which in turn helps generatr more clean electricity and ultimately revenure for their operators.
Catch the Wind recently sold its firsf unitto , a Canadian environmental monitoring equipment maker, while starting its firsr two-month field test with the Nebraskaa Public Power District on its largest wind farm with 36 wind The local company, whicyh said it’s also talking to federal agencies, hopes to use that trial’w results later this summer to market to othef wind turbine manufacturers and wind farm With six full-time employees, Catch the Wind expects to at leastr double that count by the end of this The company, which had $5.5 million in cash and equivalentss on hand as of March 31, is also considering whether to list itself on an Americanj exchange later this year.
“We aspire to Rogers said. “I just can’t say when.”
Friday, July 6, 2012
Franchot: Financial questions on State Center project will require vigilance - Jacksonville Business Journal:
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Franchot, who joined Gov. Martin O’Malley and Treasurer Nanc y Kopp onthe state’s Board of Public Workws in voting for the $1.4 billion State Centert redevelopment project Wednesday afternoon, said he does not know enougg about the project’s costs to the state or whetherf the project is even practical given the nationwidse credit crunch. “I believe the projecg has a lot of promise and is deserving of Franchot said in a telephoneinterview Wednesday. “I voted for it, but am going to continur to be vigilant about the fisca l exposure tothe state.
” The deal involvews the state leasing its midtown Baltimors office complex to a private development which would then redevelolp the property into a mix of shops and homes. The state would then leasee back a majority ofthe project’es 2 million square feet of office spacr for use by its various stat e agencies. But the terms of the deal have not been hammeredcout yet, as Franchot and the Board of Public Works voted Wednesdagy only on a master developmenyt agreement. With that agreement in the development team will now create designs for its planned buildings and come back to the statee for approval on morespecific designs, and lease terms.
The development which includes national housing deveoper Baron & Salazar, would borrow $888 million to financed its work, according to the Department of Legislative The state would issue another $338 million in State and federal tax credit programs would pick up anotherf $234 million in project with the remainder of the project’e costs being contributed directly by the developersw or other investors. Franchot said that scenario raises several including the ability for the state or the developerw to borrow money in the midst of the nationwidedcredit crunch.
He said he’s also concernef about the state’s abilitty to negotiate fair lease termes with the developers given they would both be heavily investefd in making sure the projectis “The problem is that the credit markets are bone Franchot said. “Obviously this is a long-termj project, but I’m not confident that the privatee sector will finance this in a way that the statw canafford it.
” In addition, Franchot said he isn’r sure why the state would make the project a priorit y above other pressing needs such as new college dormitoriesx or other state-funded construction
Franchot, who joined Gov. Martin O’Malley and Treasurer Nanc y Kopp onthe state’s Board of Public Workws in voting for the $1.4 billion State Centert redevelopment project Wednesday afternoon, said he does not know enougg about the project’s costs to the state or whetherf the project is even practical given the nationwidse credit crunch. “I believe the projecg has a lot of promise and is deserving of Franchot said in a telephoneinterview Wednesday. “I voted for it, but am going to continur to be vigilant about the fisca l exposure tothe state.
” The deal involvews the state leasing its midtown Baltimors office complex to a private development which would then redevelolp the property into a mix of shops and homes. The state would then leasee back a majority ofthe project’es 2 million square feet of office spacr for use by its various stat e agencies. But the terms of the deal have not been hammeredcout yet, as Franchot and the Board of Public Works voted Wednesdagy only on a master developmenyt agreement. With that agreement in the development team will now create designs for its planned buildings and come back to the statee for approval on morespecific designs, and lease terms.
The development which includes national housing deveoper Baron & Salazar, would borrow $888 million to financed its work, according to the Department of Legislative The state would issue another $338 million in State and federal tax credit programs would pick up anotherf $234 million in project with the remainder of the project’e costs being contributed directly by the developersw or other investors. Franchot said that scenario raises several including the ability for the state or the developerw to borrow money in the midst of the nationwidedcredit crunch.
He said he’s also concernef about the state’s abilitty to negotiate fair lease termes with the developers given they would both be heavily investefd in making sure the projectis “The problem is that the credit markets are bone Franchot said. “Obviously this is a long-termj project, but I’m not confident that the privatee sector will finance this in a way that the statw canafford it.
” In addition, Franchot said he isn’r sure why the state would make the project a priorit y above other pressing needs such as new college dormitoriesx or other state-funded construction
Thursday, July 5, 2012
Voyager Targets Struggling High School Readers with New Level of Passport Reading Journeys
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Aligned to state standards and incorporatingg recommendations of Reading Next and Academic Literach Instructionfor Adolescents, Passport Reading Journeys III provide effective literacy instruction in comprehension, vocabulary, and writing througjh exciting content. Like the othedr levels in the Passport Reading Journeys students are takenthrough two-week Expeditionsw related to high-interest topics such as graphicc arts, fashion, music trends, science fictionb and the Internet. Students stay engagede in learning with the new onlines vocabulary componentcalled VocabJourney(TM), which allows students easy access to independenf reading practice 24/7.
Adaptive and interactive, VocabJourney, focuses on increasin g academic vocabulary, vocabulary for ELL students through multiple exposures and comprehension. VocabJourney provides additional studengt support for independent reading througbhLive Ink, a cutting edge feature that helpss students read more comfortably and effectively. Teacherxs can regularly monitor student progressthrough built-in benchmarko assessments that ensure students show continual improvement: Readin Benchmark Assessment powered by the Lexile Semester Exams and VocabJournegy Progress Reports.
Teachers enter assessment informationinto VPORT(R), Voyager's data managementt system, at which point they can access instant reports illustratinb each student's learning growth to assist with the development of District administrators can also view real-time data at the student, classroom, or district level to inforjm decision-making. Through their ongoing partnership with Voyager Expanded teachers alsoreceive year-lonbg service and support with a plan customized to meet districtt needs.
Voyager Expanded Learningh provides core, intervention, and supplementaol reading programs, as well as math interventionb and ongoing professional development programs, for school districts throughout the United States. Founderd in 1994, Voyager has delivered extended-time readinhg and basic skillsintervention programs, as well as large-scale readinh and math programs, to more than 1,000 schoopl districts in cities such as Buffalo, Miami; New York City; Richmond, Va.; El Texas; and Los Angeles, resulting in dramatically improvexd student performance. Voyager Expanded Learning, Inc. is a business unit of Voyageer LearningCompany (OTC: VLCY.PK) and base in Dallas, Texas.
For more information, please visit or call 1-888-399-1995.
Aligned to state standards and incorporatingg recommendations of Reading Next and Academic Literach Instructionfor Adolescents, Passport Reading Journeys III provide effective literacy instruction in comprehension, vocabulary, and writing througjh exciting content. Like the othedr levels in the Passport Reading Journeys students are takenthrough two-week Expeditionsw related to high-interest topics such as graphicc arts, fashion, music trends, science fictionb and the Internet. Students stay engagede in learning with the new onlines vocabulary componentcalled VocabJourney(TM), which allows students easy access to independenf reading practice 24/7.
Adaptive and interactive, VocabJourney, focuses on increasin g academic vocabulary, vocabulary for ELL students through multiple exposures and comprehension. VocabJourney provides additional studengt support for independent reading througbhLive Ink, a cutting edge feature that helpss students read more comfortably and effectively. Teacherxs can regularly monitor student progressthrough built-in benchmarko assessments that ensure students show continual improvement: Readin Benchmark Assessment powered by the Lexile Semester Exams and VocabJournegy Progress Reports.
Teachers enter assessment informationinto VPORT(R), Voyager's data managementt system, at which point they can access instant reports illustratinb each student's learning growth to assist with the development of District administrators can also view real-time data at the student, classroom, or district level to inforjm decision-making. Through their ongoing partnership with Voyager Expanded teachers alsoreceive year-lonbg service and support with a plan customized to meet districtt needs.
Voyager Expanded Learningh provides core, intervention, and supplementaol reading programs, as well as math interventionb and ongoing professional development programs, for school districts throughout the United States. Founderd in 1994, Voyager has delivered extended-time readinhg and basic skillsintervention programs, as well as large-scale readinh and math programs, to more than 1,000 schoopl districts in cities such as Buffalo, Miami; New York City; Richmond, Va.; El Texas; and Los Angeles, resulting in dramatically improvexd student performance. Voyager Expanded Learning, Inc. is a business unit of Voyageer LearningCompany (OTC: VLCY.PK) and base in Dallas, Texas.
For more information, please visit or call 1-888-399-1995.
Wednesday, July 4, 2012
Central Ohio loses driver behind massive convention at fairgrounds - Dayton Business Journal:
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Denny Hales, 63, died of a heary attack March 29in Zanesville. Hale was the long-time executive vice president of the and the drivinf force behind the annual at the State Forthe uninitiated, the Quartef Horse Congress is the region’s largest conventionm by a country mile, drawing 650,000 visitors each The economic impact from the three-weeko show for the region’ds hotels and businesses is estimated at more than $120 And for that, you can thank Hales, whosd leadership grew the event into the nation’sx largest single-breed horse show, said Ohio Quartee Horse Association President Skip “I think sometimes Ohio doesn’t realizee how fortunate it is to have this evengt in the state,” he “And Denny has taken this thing to the height that it Salome said the Quarter Horses Congress is the third-largest convention in the behind only the Democraticv and Republican presidential conventions.
Jim Franklin County’s economic developmengt and planning director, said Hales was a “terrificx person” who had been working to figurde out a way to expand the event in Centralk Ohio even as it outgreew facilities at the Ohio Expo The county and others are funding a feasibilitgy study for facilities at the Franklij County Fairgrounds that could accommodate Quarter HorseCongressa venues. “Outside of the horse world,” Schimmer said in an “I bet few people knew of his work and how many paychecksa he generated for the people ofCentral Ohio.
” Former Community banking is a closely knit business, and veteram banker Mark Kelly used that to his advantage when he landesd a job at Gahanna-based . Kelly, 59, stepped down as CEO of Columbus-basedf Insight Bank in but he wasn’t on the hunt for a new job for Wordof Kelly’s availability got to Heartlane President Scott McComb, who hired him as senior vice presideny of business development and support “Mark is well known in communith banking circles around Ohio,” McComb “We knew a good find when we saw one, so we startes talking to Mark to see if he’d be able to Kelly is no stranger to He has known Heartland’s chairman, Tiney McComb, since the when they served on the boare of a banking industry association together, he said.
“Ws kept running into each other,” Kellgy said. “Then when Scott found out I was lookinf for my nextcareer move, he reachexd out to me. “I told Scotyt we were going to Florida to see some and hesaid that’zs not too far from Tiney’es house, he’d love to see you,” Kelly “So I went down, and speny the morning and then had lunch with Tiney.” Not long he was on board. Cache of branches in Pa. goes to New York bank A big chunk of bankinv business in western Pennsylvania has been snatchexd up by a small bank in upstatsNew York, and not by any of the bigger Midwesterjn banks reported to have been interested. The $9.
3 billion-asset agreed to acquire $4.2 billion in deposits and 57 branches fromfor $54.t million. PNC was required by the to put the branchee on the market after PNC acquirecdon Dec. 31. A host of potential suitors for the branchesz had been identifiedby speculators, including and Columbus-based Huntington spokeswoman Jeri Grierr declined to comment on whether Huntingtonm made a bid. “But we’ve always said we’res interested in growing in thePittsburgh market,” she
Denny Hales, 63, died of a heary attack March 29in Zanesville. Hale was the long-time executive vice president of the and the drivinf force behind the annual at the State Forthe uninitiated, the Quartef Horse Congress is the region’s largest conventionm by a country mile, drawing 650,000 visitors each The economic impact from the three-weeko show for the region’ds hotels and businesses is estimated at more than $120 And for that, you can thank Hales, whosd leadership grew the event into the nation’sx largest single-breed horse show, said Ohio Quartee Horse Association President Skip “I think sometimes Ohio doesn’t realizee how fortunate it is to have this evengt in the state,” he “And Denny has taken this thing to the height that it Salome said the Quarter Horses Congress is the third-largest convention in the behind only the Democraticv and Republican presidential conventions.
Jim Franklin County’s economic developmengt and planning director, said Hales was a “terrificx person” who had been working to figurde out a way to expand the event in Centralk Ohio even as it outgreew facilities at the Ohio Expo The county and others are funding a feasibilitgy study for facilities at the Franklij County Fairgrounds that could accommodate Quarter HorseCongressa venues. “Outside of the horse world,” Schimmer said in an “I bet few people knew of his work and how many paychecksa he generated for the people ofCentral Ohio.
” Former Community banking is a closely knit business, and veteram banker Mark Kelly used that to his advantage when he landesd a job at Gahanna-based . Kelly, 59, stepped down as CEO of Columbus-basedf Insight Bank in but he wasn’t on the hunt for a new job for Wordof Kelly’s availability got to Heartlane President Scott McComb, who hired him as senior vice presideny of business development and support “Mark is well known in communith banking circles around Ohio,” McComb “We knew a good find when we saw one, so we startes talking to Mark to see if he’d be able to Kelly is no stranger to He has known Heartland’s chairman, Tiney McComb, since the when they served on the boare of a banking industry association together, he said.
“Ws kept running into each other,” Kellgy said. “Then when Scott found out I was lookinf for my nextcareer move, he reachexd out to me. “I told Scotyt we were going to Florida to see some and hesaid that’zs not too far from Tiney’es house, he’d love to see you,” Kelly “So I went down, and speny the morning and then had lunch with Tiney.” Not long he was on board. Cache of branches in Pa. goes to New York bank A big chunk of bankinv business in western Pennsylvania has been snatchexd up by a small bank in upstatsNew York, and not by any of the bigger Midwesterjn banks reported to have been interested. The $9.
3 billion-asset agreed to acquire $4.2 billion in deposits and 57 branches fromfor $54.t million. PNC was required by the to put the branchee on the market after PNC acquirecdon Dec. 31. A host of potential suitors for the branchesz had been identifiedby speculators, including and Columbus-based Huntington spokeswoman Jeri Grierr declined to comment on whether Huntingtonm made a bid. “But we’ve always said we’res interested in growing in thePittsburgh market,” she
Monday, July 2, 2012
Get Organized: 20 Tips for Working from Home - PC Magazine
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Get Organized: 20 Tips for Working from Home PC Magazine Working from home full time or just occasionally can be hugely rewarding, but only if you know how to keep your productivity up, work-life balance in check, and business relationships intact. |
Sunday, July 1, 2012
Fujitsu division staying in Silicon Valley - The Business Journal of Milwaukee:
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Two representatives of Schwartz Communicationws told the Business Journal on Tuesday that the company wasexitingy Sunnyvale. Fujitsu Computer Products of Americs is a unit of Japanese electronics giantFujitsu Ltd. But Joel vice president of marketinhg for FujitsuComputer Products, said the statemeny was "completely false." "We are not leaving and we are not moviny anywhere," Hagberg said. A WARN notice, however, was filed with the statee Employment Development Department showing 54 worker will be laid off from Fujitsu Computer Products as ofJuly 1.
Hagberg acknowledged the WARN noticde but said 90 percent of employees inthe company'se hard disk drive division will transitionj to a new company followingf the purchase of that divisiohn by Toshiba Corp. He didn't say exactly where the new company will be located but said it will remaimn inSilicon Valley. Toshiba announcesd in January that it plannex toacquire Fujitsu's hard disk drive businesa in a deal that will make Toshiba a major player in the HDD market and let Fujitsju shed a money-losing business. Fujitsu Ltd.
has numerous companiez in several buildings on the Arques Avenue campus in which include Fujitsu Computer Products of America and Fujitsu On TuesdayRon Mitchell, senior vice presidenr of Fujitsu America -- which he calle d the “dominant subdivision” of its Japanesde parent -- said the Sunnyvale locatiom is strategically important. He described it as the “centerr of gravity” for not only its executives team but for a number of Fujitsu including Fujitsu’s R&D organization, data centetr operations and Fujitsu Management “That acquisition has impacted Mitchell said, referring to Fujitsu Computef Products of America.
the 16th largest employer in has been hammered by theeconomy "like every other company in the valley," said technology analysty Charles King of Pund-IT in Hayward. "They’re been going through some difficult times from a competitivw standpoint at the same time theirr parent corporation is goiny through somesevere changes," King Among the difficulties, King said, are the dissolutiomn of the agreement Fujitsu had with Siemens AG, whicjh Fujitsu president Kuniaki Nozoe described in March as an integratioh of that unit into Fujitsu as a growth "Going back a few yearse to the dotcom the lesson most large customers came away with was that it’sz smarter to deal with larger, well establishedc companies than what you mighgt classify as a marginal player," King said.
In addition, Santz Clara-based Sun Microsystems Inc.’s announcement that it is canceling its Rock chip project also may have thrown Fujitsuinto turmoil. Sun has been usingb Fujitsu chips while it developed its own product to compet against server chipsfrom Armonk, N.Y.-based International Business Machines (NYSE:IBM) and Santa Clara-based Intel Corp. Mitchell said Sun’s announcementt is a positive onefor Fujitsu. “It puts more emphasis on the SPARCd chip that is the basis forthe platform,” Mitchell “It’s good news for Fujitsy globally.
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Two representatives of Schwartz Communicationws told the Business Journal on Tuesday that the company wasexitingy Sunnyvale. Fujitsu Computer Products of Americs is a unit of Japanese electronics giantFujitsu Ltd. But Joel vice president of marketinhg for FujitsuComputer Products, said the statemeny was "completely false." "We are not leaving and we are not moviny anywhere," Hagberg said. A WARN notice, however, was filed with the statee Employment Development Department showing 54 worker will be laid off from Fujitsu Computer Products as ofJuly 1.
Hagberg acknowledged the WARN noticde but said 90 percent of employees inthe company'se hard disk drive division will transitionj to a new company followingf the purchase of that divisiohn by Toshiba Corp. He didn't say exactly where the new company will be located but said it will remaimn inSilicon Valley. Toshiba announcesd in January that it plannex toacquire Fujitsu's hard disk drive businesa in a deal that will make Toshiba a major player in the HDD market and let Fujitsju shed a money-losing business. Fujitsu Ltd.
has numerous companiez in several buildings on the Arques Avenue campus in which include Fujitsu Computer Products of America and Fujitsu On TuesdayRon Mitchell, senior vice presidenr of Fujitsu America -- which he calle d the “dominant subdivision” of its Japanesde parent -- said the Sunnyvale locatiom is strategically important. He described it as the “centerr of gravity” for not only its executives team but for a number of Fujitsu including Fujitsu’s R&D organization, data centetr operations and Fujitsu Management “That acquisition has impacted Mitchell said, referring to Fujitsu Computef Products of America.
the 16th largest employer in has been hammered by theeconomy "like every other company in the valley," said technology analysty Charles King of Pund-IT in Hayward. "They’re been going through some difficult times from a competitivw standpoint at the same time theirr parent corporation is goiny through somesevere changes," King Among the difficulties, King said, are the dissolutiomn of the agreement Fujitsu had with Siemens AG, whicjh Fujitsu president Kuniaki Nozoe described in March as an integratioh of that unit into Fujitsu as a growth "Going back a few yearse to the dotcom the lesson most large customers came away with was that it’sz smarter to deal with larger, well establishedc companies than what you mighgt classify as a marginal player," King said.
In addition, Santz Clara-based Sun Microsystems Inc.’s announcement that it is canceling its Rock chip project also may have thrown Fujitsuinto turmoil. Sun has been usingb Fujitsu chips while it developed its own product to compet against server chipsfrom Armonk, N.Y.-based International Business Machines (NYSE:IBM) and Santa Clara-based Intel Corp. Mitchell said Sun’s announcementt is a positive onefor Fujitsu. “It puts more emphasis on the SPARCd chip that is the basis forthe platform,” Mitchell “It’s good news for Fujitsy globally.
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