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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...
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...

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