Schlumberger Ltd., an oil field service company that is expanding into meter-reading and electronic-commerce technologies, agreed yesterday to buy the closely held Data Marine Systems Ltd for an undisclosed price.
Schlumberger Ltd., an oil-service company that is expanding into meter-reading and electronic-commerce technologies, said yesterday that it had bought the assets of the wireless-network provider CellNet Data Systems Inc. for about $117 million in cash.
The Information Technology and BPO segment provides value-added content for wireless services, electronic commerce, and technology infrastructure hardware and software sales and technology services.
It helps companies develop electronic commerce and electronic business technology; it is not a marketing company.
Yet, today, the most exciting development in business marketing is electronic commerce, which is a technology and a paradigm not of dyads but of networks.
The 64-bit processor is becoming the focus of attention as enterprise (large scale) computing is becoming a norm thanks to the growth of electronic commerce and other new technologies such as application service providers.
Boston-based Yankee Group is a provider of research and consulting services on telecommunications, Internet technology and electronic commerce.
The growth of Internet technology and electronic commerce has not been matched by theoretically guided social science research.
When electronic commerce became a buzzword earlier this year, technology companies such as IBM entered the fray, marketing themselves to companies with online needs beyond simple web development and measurement.
