Cisco appears to be nudging ever closer to dropping the Linksys brand. Today it announces that it has combined the engineering teams for all its SMB products, forming a single group to develop ...

Michael Pocock is engaged in a balancing act as the top guy at Irvine’s Cisco-Linksys LLC, the consumer business of networking kingpin Cisco Systems Inc. Pocock took the reins two years ago from ...

Cisco’s Linksys brand may disappear sooner than expected, according to a top executive for small business at the company, although he wouldn’t say how quickly. The company sells networking gear for ...

Jumping into the competitive home networking market, Cisco Systems Inc. said Thursday it was buying The Linksys Group Inc. in $500 million stock deal that would make it the leader in that burgeoning ...

Cisco Systems Inc.’s Irvine unit has come out with a line of routers that uses the Cisco name for everyday consumers and taps the company’s Linksys brand for techies. “We are looking at the market a ...

In a move that's been nearly a year-and-a-half in the making, Cisco Systems Tuesday said it is absorbing the Linksys Small-Business Channel Partner Program into its own partner program. With the ...

Cisco Systems Inc., the world’s largest manufacturer of computer networking equipment, said Thursday that it will buy Linksys Group Inc. of Irvine for about $500 million in stock as part of its bid to ...

People can get a 100 percent cash rebate on certain Linksys gear when they trade up to higher-end Cisco products. Marguerite Reardon started as a CNET News reporter in 2004, covering cellphone ...

Cisco Chairman John Chambers has indicated that Linksys, Cisco's consumer and SMB division, will be phased out as a brand, though he didn't give a time frame The saga of Cisco Systems and its Linksys ...

The answer to that question hasn't been particularly clear over the past three years. First it was a size issue. Linksys gets the really small businesses, the five- to 20-user scenarios on average, ...

Polaroid exec J. Michael Pocock joins Linksys as senior vice president and general manager, and founders Victor and Janie Tsao will build business links in China Cisco Systems has named a new general ...

Cisco Systems Inc. today announced it will acquire the business of privately held home-networking product vendor Linksys Group Inc. for $500 million. Under the terms of the agreement, Cisco will issue ...