Marc Ferranti - Author - PC World Australia

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Article | 22/10/2011 Wall Street Beat: Tech sales strong in third quarter

Against a backdrop of economic uncertainty, a raft of third-quarter earnings reports this week from some of the biggest players in IT showed that whil...

Article | 15/10/2011 Wall Street Beat: Google, strong sales boost tech

Strong results for tech companies, especially Google, and an easing of concerns about the economy boosted confidence in the computer sector, as market...

Article | 8/10/2011 Wall Street Beat: Tech mergers cover range of IT

Steve Jobs' death raised question about directions in technology this week while worries about the economy continue to put downward pressure on tech s...

Article | 7/10/2011 Trump, Rich Dad's Kiyosaki put twist on e-book marketing

Donald Trump has trained his eye for promotion on e-books, teaming up with Robert Kiyosaki, author of "Rich Dad Poor Dad," in a new twist on the tradi...

Article | 24/09/2011 Wall Street Beat: Software earnings look good

The spectacle of Hewlett-Packard replacing CEO Leo Apotheker, who had been in the job just a year, with former eBay chief Meg Whitman this week all bu...

Article | 17/09/2011 Wall Street Beat: Market rally, tablet excitement lifts IT

Tech stocks rose along with major indexes this week as central banks came up with a plan to ease market fears about European sovereign debt, and as ke...

Article | 16/09/2011 MasterCard gives sneak peek into mobile payments future

MasterCard on Thursday gave a sneak peek into the near future of mobile payment systems and said that the Google Wallet application is within weeks of...

Article | 10/09/2011 Wall Street Beat: Mixed signals for hardware, components

Hardware and components insiders are giving off mixed signals about how business will fare for the rest of the year.

Article | 20/08/2011 Wall Street Beat: Megamergers, earnings roil tech

Against a backdrop of economic uncertainty, acquisitions and earnings news from the world's top PC makers (Hewlett-Packard, Dell and Lenovo), the bigg...

Article | 13/08/2011 Wall Street Beat: Tech shares on wild ride

U.S. stock markets edged up for the day Friday afternoon, but fears of an economic slowdown and concerns about the debt crisis in Europe caused techno...

Article | 6/08/2011 Wall Street Beat: How bad will it get for tech?

U.S. exchanges were volatile Friday after suffering their worst drop in more than two years Thursday, taking IT companies' shares down along with stoc...

Article | 30/07/2011 Wall Street Beat: Debt, GDP weigh on tech shares

Though faring better than businesses in other sectors, technology companies have not escaped the market storm stirred up by reports of tepid economic ...

Article | 23/07/2011 Wall Street Beat: Tech earnings show sector strength

A raft of computer and software vendor financial results this week, including reports from IBM, Intel, Apple and Microsoft, revealed some record quart...

Article | 16/07/2011 Wall Street Beat: Google stirs market optimism

Google's surprisingly strong earnings helped spark renewed confidence in the tech sector in advance of a raft of vendor earnings announcements next we...

Article | 9/07/2011 Wall Street Beat: Uncertainty hits tech stocks

The two-week stock market rally in technology, among other sectors of the economy, came to a screeching halt Friday as the U.S. Bureau of Labor issued...