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 American Airlines has told

Networking equipment manufacturer Cisco and information management vendor EMC are in talks to create a joint venture that would provide services around their respective technologies, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.

That such a joint venture, referred to in the report as Alpine, is even plausible reflec

Alliance Best Practice has been retained by Nokia Corporation to present a review of the current corporate partnering landscape to the european senior executive team on the 19th August 2009

Microsoft and Nokia will on Wednesday announce an alliance aimed at challenging Research In Motion's lead in the corporate mobile phone market. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/251bb9f0-8726-11de-9280-00144feabdc0,s01=1.html

Tim Morse, Yahoo’s chief financial officer, told the Financial Times: “There’s a lot of emotion in the market over the deal. It’s a perfect fit for our strategy.” The companies were forced on to the defensive as Yahoo’s shares continued to slump yesterday, extending their loss to 15 per cent since th

ABP has been asked to present its award winning framework to the Microsoft Communications Sector team at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) 2009.  Mike Nevin (Managing Director of ABP) said:

"We are absolutely delighted that Microsoft has chosen ABP as a prime contributor at this prestigeous event.&

ASAP (the Association of Strategic Alliance Professionals) recently announced stage two in its alliance manager certification process.

Recent research by Alliance Best Practice and the University of the United Nations suggests that alliance competence in Europe is growing significantly.

Tieto Enator the European Systems integrator based in Finland has recently apponted a new Global Head of Strategic Alliances.  The new appointee is Nina Christiansen recently of Unisys based in the UK.  Nina said she was 'delighted to take up this challenge at such an exciting time for Tieto'. 

Mike Nevin (Managing Director of Alliance Best Practice) will be running a two day workshop at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) in New Orleans from 16th - 18 July 2009.

Putting everything in perspective, grouping a bunch of words to make up a sensible article or content to be viewed by millions of people over the web has somewhat deteriorated, mostly because people are after revenue rather than knowledge. This has been the practice that has governed a large part of the money maki

Alliance Best Practice has been retained to run a 2 day workshop at the prestigeous Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) 2009.  ABP will be coaching the Microsoft Communications Sector team on the ABP Framework and its uses.