Cisco Thursday announced its intent to acquire privately held Pure Digital Technologies, creator of the Flip video camcorder for consumers, for $590 million in stock. The deal had been expected. View ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

[timecom-gdgt url=”http://gdgt.com/pure-digital/flip/minohd/2nd-gen/” style=”full” float=”right”]Flip! Dead! The company that made portable camcorders ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Proving that its acquisition of Flip camera maker Pure Digital in 2009 was indeed boneheaded, Cisco announced this morning that it will shut down its Flip division as part of a broader restructuring ...

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 ...