This morning, Cisco announced that it is acquiring Pure Digital Technologies, better known as the company responsible for Flip Video cameras, the pocket-sized digital camcorders. Today's announcement ...

The Flip video camera will no longer be produced by Cisco as part of the company's restructuring of its consumer products business. Its 550 workers will also be laid off, the company announced. The ...

after its first year on the market. Unfortunately, increased competition from cell phones and digital cameras – many of which now record HD video – made it difficult for Cisco to maintain Flip's ...

Somebody surely will blame iPhone in today's analysis, although the move reflects broader problems Cisco is looking to fix. Hey, the dot-com boom of the 1990s, when Cisco router sales soared, is long ...

Cisco Systems Inc is buying digital camcorder-maker Pure Digital Technologies as it seeks to push further into the consumer market. It will also pay up to $15 million in retention-based incentives to ...

Cisco also moves the umi home telepresence into closer alignment with the business version of the high-end video technology. Andrew Davis of Wainhouse Research helps us sort it all out. The first shoe ...

It appears to be a case of a big company proving a poor custodian of a small one, even one that makes a hit product. Cisco never meaningfully integrated the Flip Video into its main business of making ...

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – December 2, 2009 – The maker of the best-selling Flip Video family of camcorders – recently acquired by Cisco - today announced the availability of FlipShare 5.0, the latest ...

There I was at the San Francisco Giants game the other evening, when my buddy decided to do something a bit silly — but memorable — and handed me his little Flip camera. I’m not going to share the ...