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Article | 14/01/2012 Wall Street Beat: Tech earnings season could be stormy

Get ready for a perfect storm of earnings news. With tech bellwethers including IBM, Microsoft, Intel and Google set to issue financial reports next w...

Article | 7/01/2012 Wall Street Beat: Tech may be a bright spot in tough economy

Tech stocks ended the first trading week of 2012 on an upbeat note even though both Forrester and Gartner this week forecast slowing growth in IT spen...

Article | 31/12/2011 Wall Street Beat: Tech stocks flat for year

After a rollercoaster ride on the stock market, tech companies are ending the year just about where they started, despite strong and in some cases rec...

Article | 31/12/2011 Letter to Hurd details allegations that led to his downfall at HP

Details of allegations of sexual harassment that ultimately caused Mark Hurd, now co-president at Oracle, to quit as CEO of Hewlett-Packard are now pl...

Article | 24/12/2011 Wall Street Beat: Tech confidence recovers after Oracle's miss

Confidence in the tech sector appears to be recovering on strong results from Tibco and Red Hat and optimism about the economy, after sinking earlier ...

Article | 17/12/2011 Wall Street Beat: IPOs, M&A, chip news stir tech optimism

Zynga's initial public offering Friday, a raft of acquisition announcements this week from IBM, Salesforce and others, and some upbeat reports on the ...

Article | 14/12/2011 Tech stories of 2011: Jobs, Android and Anonymous rank in top 10

In 2011, the increasingly mobile and socially networked world of technology became more intertwined than ever with politics and the law. Patent wars s...

Article | 9/12/2011 Wall Street Beat: Economy weighs on chip, PC sector

After several days of gains, tech stocks dropped Thursday as markets declined on disappointing news from Europe, where government officials are meetin...

Article | 4/12/2011 US judge denies Apple request to halt sales of some Samsung products

A US district court judge has denied Apple's request to halt sales of four Samsung products in an ongoing patent infringement lawsuit.

Article | 3/12/2011 Wall Street Beat: Tech rises on sales, economic news

Tech stocks looked strong Friday morning on the back of a week of upbeat surveys on small business and online spending, positive news about enterprise...

Article | 19/11/2011 Wall Street Beat: Tech lags in wake of mixed results

Computer stocks sagged Friday morning in the wake of continuing economic worries and mixed financial news from hardware and software vendors this week...

Article | 12/11/2011 Wall Street Beat: IT rebounds as Nvidia, Cisco shares rise

With Nvidia and Cisco reporting results, there was some good news on the chip and networking front this week that, with the help of a successful debt ...

Article | 5/11/2011 Wall Street Beat: Mixed news for chips as Groupon IPO soars

There was mixed news on PC and microprocessor market growth this week, while the Groupon initial public offering Friday showed that there are plenty o...

Article | 29/10/2011 Wall Street Beat: Enterprise IT, smartphones boost tech earnings

Third-quarter earnings reports from major tech vendors continued to pour in this week, confirming upbeat trends for enterprise software and emerging m...

Article | 26/10/2011 IBM names Rometty to replace Palmisano as CEO

IBM has elected Virginia Rometty as president and chief executive officer effective Jan. 1, replacing Sam Palmisano, who will retain the chairman's ro...