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Article | 2/07/2011 Wall Street Beat: Tech starts Q3 with upbeat outlook

Tech companies this week enjoyed an end-of-quarter market rally as concerns about the recovery abated somewhat and reports from market analysts indica...

Article | 25/06/2011 Wall Street Beat: Enterprise IT software sales up

Oracle, Red Hat, Tibco and Adobe this week showed that software sales, especially for products geared for the enterprise, continue to be strong even t...

Article | 18/06/2011 Wall Street Beat: Tech shares hit by slump

Concerns about the slowing economic recovery and European debt problems continue to weigh on U.S. stock markets, and tech companies are not immune fro...

Article | 17/06/2011 100 years of IBM: Milestones

IBM is celebrating the 100th anniversary of its founding Thursday. Led by American capitalist icons Thomas J. Watson, Sr. and Thomas J. Watson, Jr. un...

Article | 11/06/2011 Wall Street Beat: IT gets hit in market slump

Major U.S. stock markets on Friday closed for a sixth straight week of losses, the worst weekly losing streak since the third quarter of 2002, during ...

Article | 4/06/2011 Wall Street Beat: IT will have winners, losers

Though signs for IT remain positive this year, worries about the economy sapped investor confidence this week as a wide range of businesses, including...

Article | 28/05/2011 Wall Street Beat: Servers up, PCs down

Good news trickled in this week for the hardware sector, plagued by a slump in the traditional PC market, as Gartner reported that server sales rose d...

Article | 21/05/2011 Wall Street Beat: IPO, enterprise sales boost tech

Excitement over LinkedIn's stunning market debut appears to have outweighed concerns this week about Hewlett-Packard and Dell earnings reports, which ...

Article | 14/05/2011 Wall Street Beat: Microsoft deal, Intel dividend buoy tech

Though Cisco had disappointing earnings news this week, the Microsoft deal to buy Skype, an Intel dividend and solid financials from Symantec helped k...

Article | 7/05/2011 Wall Street Beat: China tech IPOs create US buzz

Chinese tech companies are once again creating U.S. IPO market buzz, with social-networking site RenRen going public Wednesday, software security vend...

Article | 30/04/2011 Wall Street Beat: Tech sales stay strong

Though there were some concerns about tech company earnings this week as Microsoft, SAP and other bellwethers reported results, the IT sector has help...

Article | 23/04/2011 Wall Street Beat: Tech sector off to strong start in Q1

A Who's Who of IT bellwethers including Apple, IBM, Intel and Qualcomm issued strong financial reports this week, the height of earnings season, reinf...

Article | 16/04/2011 Wall Street Beat: Tech stocks show some resilience

Despite an unusual earnings miss Thursday by Internet bellwether Google, continuing geopolitical turmoil and disappointing news for the PC market, IT ...

Article | 15/04/2011 RIM's PlayBook faces mixed reception ahead of launch

Research in Motion executives came out in force Thursday evening in New York, playing hosts at the industry launch of the PlayBook tablet in an effort...

Article | 9/04/2011 Wall Street Beat: Underlying confidence marks tech sector

Another strong earthquake in Japan Thursday and rising oil prices caused turmoil in the markets this week, but there still appears to be strong underl...