Continental Lays Firm Foundation for the Achievement of Annual Targets with Successful First Quarter

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– Automotive supplier increases sales by 23% to more than ?7.3 billion
– EBIT rises to ?634 million / 8.6% sales margin
– Impact of raw material costs, particularly for natural rubber, still a challenge
– Net income up by 62% to ?368 million due to tax income
In the first three months of 2011, the Continental Corporation posted the most successful quarter since it acquired Siemens VDO at the end of 2007, setting new record highs for sales, EBIT and prof

Continental Lays Firm Foundation for the Achievement of Annual Targets with Successful First Quarter

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– Automotive supplier increases sales by 23% to more than ?7.3 billion
– EBIT rises to ?634 million / 8.6% sales margin
– Impact of raw material costs, particularly for natural rubber, still a challenge
– Net income up by 62% to ?368 million due to tax income
In the first three months of 2011, the Continental Corporation posted the most successful quarter since it acquired Siemens VDO at the end of 2007, setting new record highs for sales, EBIT and prof

Univention joins the Open Invention Network

Users can count on the further development of Linux products with less worry

The Open Source software manufacturer Univention has joined the Open Invention Network (OIN) industry consortium. The aim of the Open Invention Network is to create a collection point for patents, which are only available to such companies and persons who undertake not to enforce their own patent rights against Linux. Univention’s joining the OIN provides the Bremen-based software house with the possibility to use the

Pironet NDH once again confirmed as leading cloud provider to small and medium-sized enterprises in Germany

If you ask small and medium-sized German enterprises, when it comes to cloud computing, size is not everything: this is the finding of this year-s comparative study by the Experton Group for the cloud computing market in Germany. In a field of competition considerably stronger than for the previous year-s pilot study, for the second time the market analysts identified Pironet NDH Datacenter as one of the leading providers of cloud services for small and medium-sized companies. This specialist f

New serVonic IXI-UMS Release 5.85 – Fax and UM with Improvements in User Comfort, Security and Administration

New serVonic IXI-UMS Release 5.85 – Fax and UM with Improvements in User Comfort, Security and Administration

The new release 5.85 of serVonic’s fax- and unified messaging solution IXI-UMS is available now. More comfort for the users, enhanced security settings as well as a simplified administration have been in the focus of the further development. For the MultiSite-operation – use of serVonic’s solution at several sites – IXI-UMS SMS and MWI are also available now.

INTERGEO 2011 – Conference opens with new format for the open data community

INTERGEO 2011 – Conference opens with new format for the open data community

Karlsruhe, 4 May 2011. The number of members currently stands at 389,302. And it-s not just the number of mappers that is increasing. The importance of the global OpenStreetMap (OSM) community is also rising steadily. The OSM project is therefore enjoying heightened interest at INTERGEO, which will be held in Nuremberg from 27 to 29 September 2011, and is the topic of the first ever INTERGEO BarCamp. The broad-based and well-balanced conference program also includes many other highlights. The wo

BMW Group achieves record first-quarter earnings

BMW Group achieves record first-quarter earnings

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– Profit before financial result rises to euro 1,902 million
– Profit before taxes up to euro 1,812 million
– Automobiles segment reports EBIT of euro 1,708 million
– EBIT margin of 11.9% for the Automotive segment
– BMW Group reaffirms targets for current year
The BMW Group continues to perform well and has generated a new record for first-quarter earnings. Group revenues increased by 28.9% to euro 16,037 million (2010: euro 12,443 million). Th