Example sentences of "olivetti [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm choosing to assume completely my responsibility , ’ declared Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA chief Carlo De Benedetti , after delivering a 20-page document , detailing bribes paid by Olivetti over the last 15 years as political favours to the Mani Pulite — Clean Hands — investigating judges in Milan on Sunday . |
| 2 | The Mani Pulite — clean hands — investigation in Italy that has now snared Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA ( see page seven ) has won universal admiration for its thoroughness and determination not to pull punches ; our only concern is that if you simply put the two words Mani and Pulite together , the thing does n't sound nearly so squeaky clean … |
| 3 | In an interview with La Stampa yesterday , Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA chief Carlo De Benedetti condemned the pervasive system of political corruption , which he says obligated Olivetti to pay bribes or lose contracts , as ‘ having reduced Italy to a state worse than the Third World ’ : he says that at the last shareholders meeting earlier this year , he had to deny any bribery because he could n't preview information to the shareholders that was intended for the legal authorities ; he says that facing the judges , he felt liberated from a weight — ‘ then I felt a sense of justice — it pleased me to be there , ’ noting that when the company decided that the demands of the postal service for slush funds became too extreme and Olivetti stopped paying , ‘ we did n't sell another machine to the Post — we had arrived at the absurd point where , if we did n't pay , we did n't work and the moment we quit paying , we did n't work any more ’ . |
| 4 | Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA has appointed Acorn Computer founder , Dr Andrew Hopper as director of corporate research . |
| 5 | Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA was showing off a prototype workstation built around the DEC Alpha AXP RISC and running Microsoft Corp Windows NT at the Hannover CeBit show a couple of weeks ago . |
| 6 | Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA was showing off a prototype workstation built around the DEC Alpha AXP RISC and running Microsoft Windows NT at the Hannover CeBit show a couple of weeks ago . |
| 7 | Manufacturers involved include Adaptec Inc , AST Research Inc , Compaq Computer Corp , Corollary Inc , Hewlett-Packard Co , Intel Corp , NEC Technologies and Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA . |
| 8 | Digital Equipment Corp is now allied with Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA , and has no historic or technical ties with Siemens . |
| 9 | Turns out that all the speculation over the identity of the ‘ major European company ’ to join the list of backers of Eo Inc , the developer of the Eo 440 and 880 personal communicators , next week ( CI No 2,116 ) was wide of the mark , and that the company is Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA . |
| 10 | Staff at the development centres of Compagnie des Machines Bull SA , Fujitsu Ltd and Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA also contributed to the work . |
| 11 | Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA and British Telecommunications Plc decided to unveil their jointly-developed personal computer videoconferencing system , the multi-media Personal Computer Communication system first in Milan rather than London : the system enables pictures , speech , text and data to be transmitted from one workstation to another . |
| 12 | Ing C Olivetti & Co yesterday confirmed its rumoured alliance with Mountain View , California-based personal communicator developer Eo Inc , ( CI No 2,061 ) which also has partnerships with AT&T Co in the US , and Matsushita Electrical Industrial Co and Marubeni Corp in Japan . |
| 13 | Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA 's agreement with Eo Inc on the marketing and perhaps later the manufacturing of its Eo 440 and 880 handheld communicators in Europe ( CI No 2,124 ) involves the Italian taking the same stake as everyone else in Eo — the entry fee is $10m , with which it gets a seat on the firm 's board . |
| 14 | X operating system environment , initially handling development of device drivers and doing certification for European OEM partners — especially for customers of its forthcoming Intel Corp iAPX-86 implementation — such as ICL Plc , Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA and local Dell Computer Corp operations . |
| 15 | Unix Systems Laboratories Inc president Roel Pieper and his boss-in-waiting , Novell Inc chief Ray Noorda were in Japan last week explaining to Unix Labs 's Japanese shareholders the ins and outs of the deal that 's been cut : it is said that some companies , perhaps ICL Plc and Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA , were interested in somehow retaining their shares in the Unix firm . |
| 16 | Reporting a daunting $406m loss for 1992 ( see below ) , Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA is looking to bolster its balance sheet with a rights issue and bond offer to raise $560m . |
| 17 | Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA has reported a net loss for 1992 equivalent to $406m , up from a loss last time of $287m , on turnover that fell 6.8% at $5,009m.Figures converted at $0.000623 to the Italian lire . |
| 18 | Some analysts are puzzled at Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA 's planned $500m-plus fund-raising exercise ( see page seven ) , Reuter reports from Milan , because despite all its other problems , the company was thought to have no short-term liquidity problems — net debt is relatively low and the balance sheet is supposed to be healthy . |
| 19 | It was amidst the glare from flash-happy Paparazzi and marauding tv camera crews that Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA announced its alliance with Eo Corp , the Mountain View , California-based developer of the 440 and 880 personal communicators ( CI No 2,124 ) . |
| 20 | Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA 's hot property for the Cebit computer fair in Hannover this year is the Active Badge system , an infra-red badge developed at its Cambridge research laboratory here in the UK and designed for access control and location applications . |
| 21 | Acorn says that major shareholder Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA is wholly supportive of its strategy and the plans developed to implement it . |
| 22 | Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG indicates that it is to follow Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA in offering Eo Corp 's Eo 440 and Eo 880 personal digital assistants — and presumably it will buy a stake in Eo too . |
| 23 | A group of 15 European firms in a range of businesses have come together to create the European Software Institute to improve skills in developing computer software : the Institute , to be based in Bilbao , Spain , will work with customers on software processes and methodology , according to Compagnie des Machines Bull SA vice-president Georges Grunberg , who is the acting chairman ; the other founders are Bilbao Bizkaia Kutxa SA , GMD SA , Eritel SA , Finsiel SA and Iberdrola SA from Spain , British Aerospace Plc , the Electricity Supply Board , Lloyd 's Register and Logica Plc , Sema Group Plc , Cap Gemini Sogeti SA , Telecom Ireland , Siemens-Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG and Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA ; each of the founders will pay $118,000 a year for three to five years to fund the Institute , which will have a staff of about 50 ; it hopes to build its membership up to between 100 and 300 companies in the medium term . |
| 24 | Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA says it will sell NetFrame Systems Inc 's multiprocessing parallel superservers ( CI No 2,122 ) in Europe , badged as the Olivetti NetFrame MPSA series : the deal extends its existing arrangement for the Italian to market NetFrame 's server products . |
| 25 | As reported , Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA is extending its printer offerings with its natty wedge-shaped JP 250 bubble jet and is revamping its high end personal computer offerings with the M6 Suprema line ( CI No 2,136 ) . |
| 26 | Digital Equipment Corp is bringing forward to next month its agreed purchase of a further 4.03% stake in Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA , doubling its 4.03% stake , which was bought directly from Olivetti 's controlling shareholders . |
| 27 | Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA has reported a net loss for 1992 of $437.7m , up from a loss last time of $309.6m , on turnover that fell 6.8% to $5,405m.Conversion at $0.0006735 to the Italian lire . |
| 28 | Presenting the final 1992 results ( figures , page seven ) , Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA said that sales in lire terms rose 5.5% in the first three months of 1993 from a year earlier , but they did n't give any absolute revenue figures ; in terms of volume , Olivetti said personal computer sales in Europe jumped 72% in the first quarter from a year earlier , printer sales rose 42% ; the firm will break even at the operating level this year but will not return to profit until 1994 , chairman Carlo De Benedetti said . |
| 29 | Manufacturers involved include Adaptec Inc , AST Research Inc , Compaq Computer Corp , Corollary Inc , Hewlett-Packard Co , Intel Corp , NEC Technologies and Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA . |
| 30 | The lead investor in the fourth round financing is Canaan Partners of Menlo Park and existing investors Merrill Pickard Anderson & Eyre , Menlo Ventures and Mohr Davidow-Ventures , Advent International , Kleiner Perkins , and Philadelphia Ventures were joined in this round by Interwest Partners , Needham & Co , Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA , and Weiss , Peck & Greer . |