Global vendor strategies - 8/9/05

Huawei is partnering with leading networking and storage partner Zycko in the UK, to drive sales up. Zycko has in-depth knowledge of the networking market, an extensive reseller channel and integrated support.

Microsoft acquires 10% stake in ZTEsoft for $5m.

Ericsson plans to invest $1bn in China over the next five years in order to maintain its 35% mobile market share and boost its local presence.

Intel will acquire a $16m stake or about 20% in Czech antivirus software vendor Grisoft.

Cisco completed the purchase of KiSS (Denmark) for $61m in cash and stock.

EADS has purchased, with the green light from EU, the Nokia professional mobile radio (PMR) business, and combined the entity with its own PMR operations, to form the EADS Secure Networks unit. EADS Secure Networks has deployed 130 networks of digital radio across 56 countries in both TETRAPOL and TETRA standards.