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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the survey, Linksys and its closest competitor, D-Link, scored slightly higher overall marks than Cisco among solution providers with $5 million or more in annual sales. But when solution providers ...

Networking giant Cisco Systems on Wednesday said it would buy Linksys, a manufacturer of networking gear for consumers, in a stock deal valued at $500 million. The deal will facilitate Cisco's entry ...

This completes the consumer chapter in Cisco's history. Many looked at Linksys as a distraction to Cisco. It served its purpose and now it's time to move on. Remember back to 2003? The Iraqi war had ...

networking maker Linksys in a $500 million stock deal, officially launching Cisco into the consumer market. Cisco, a maker of enterprise level networking gear, said the Linksys acquisition is part of ...

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 ...

The company looks to make it easier for sellers to sell both the Cisco and Linksys brands as it mulls future possibilities for the SMB-targeted Linksys Cisco is modifying the channel strategy for its ...

Linksys brand may disappear sooner than expected, replaced by a product category similar to the Catalyst series of switches or WebEx conferencing services Cisco Systems’ Linksys brand may disappear ...

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 ...