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Rambus Acquires Security Outfit
An item in the wall Street Journal (wsj.com) reports that Rambus (ticker symbol RMBS), a Silicon Valley chip company known for memory technology, is seeking to branch out in other directions via its...
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Yahoo-Alibaba Rift?
In another sign of the concern over the apparent lack of transparency surrounding the financial and operations reporting of Chinese companies, even those whose shares trade on U.S. public stock...
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EMC, VMWare Resist Market Downdraft
On the heels of the conclusion of the recent successful EMC World 2011 conference held in Las Vegas this past week, and all of the innovations and business and technology alliances that were revealed...
View ArticleWeek In Review – May 14, 2011
There are certain trends or threads which seem to me to be running through the technology news and markets currently, but perhaps that’s just due to the tint of the glasses through which I view the...
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RIM Recalls Defective Playbooks
Off to a quite inauspicious start, Research In Motion Ltd. (ticker symbol RIMM) said it is recalling about 1,000 BlackBerry PlayBook tablets because of a software glitch a month after the device went...
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Yahoo – Alibaba Rift Widens
Recent posts have commented on the developing rift between Yahoo (ticker symbol YHOO) and Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce outfit in which Yahoo holds an approximate 40% stake, due to the spin off of...
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Google Grows Up, Sells Bonds
In a sign of its growing financial maturity and clout, an item in today’s edition of Bloomberg (bloomberg.com) reports that Google (ticker GOOG) has successfully completed its first foray into the bond...
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China – Linked IPOs Fade
Recent posts have commented upon rising investor concerns about transparency and accuracy in the financial reporting and corporate governance activities of Chinese companies, even those whose stock...
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Dell Profit, Margins Up
In contrast to Hewlett Packards’s (ticker HPQ) recently reported financial results, things are looking up for Dell (ticker DELL). The financial results for their most recent fiscal quarter were...
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Social Media Valuations Frothy As LinkedIn IPO Approaches
As the impending IPO for LinkedIn, whose shares will be traded under the ticker symbol LNKD on the New York Stock Exchange beginning tomorrow, May 19, approaches, further signs of bubble-like...
View ArticleBlack Clouds Over The Cloud? EMC’s RSA Unit Addresses The Issues
Are there black clouds brewing over the hot cloud computing industry? Some seem to think so. Security and outage fears continue to hover as the black clouds over cloud computing, rendering some people...
View ArticleLinkedIn Chooses NYSE
It’s no secret by now that LinkedIn has decided to go public. The only potential question was the stock exchange with which it was going to choose to be listed. The answer is that it will be listed on...
View ArticleApplied Materials Acquires Varian
Today’s Wall Street Journal (wsj.com) reports that Applied Materials (ticker symbol AMAT) has agreed today to acquire Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates (VSEA) for $63 per share, roughly a 55%...
View ArticleIBM, Red Hat Announce Virtualization Collaboration
At the Red Hat Summit and JBoss World gathering currently being held in Boston, IBM (ticker IBM) and Red Hat (ticker RHT) announced Tuesday they will collaborate to create products based on KVM...
View ArticleIntel Aims at ARM Holdings With New Chip Technology
An item in today’s Investors Business Daily (investors.com) reports that at a gathering in San Francisco yesterday, Intel Corp. (ticker INTC) showed off what it called the most radical shift in...
View ArticleCisco Revamping Operations
It’s no secret that Cisco (ticker symbol CSCO) has been struggling and therefore needs to make some changes in their operations and business models. Today’s Wall Street Journal (wsj.com) reports that...
View ArticleRenren IPO Successful Despite Accounting Questions
Shares of Chinese social network Renren (ticker symbol RENN) successfully debuted yesterday on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), climbing more than 50% intraday before closing up 20% from their...
View ArticleYouku Loss Narrows, Issues New Shares
Youku.com (ticker symbol YOKU) is a Chinese online video company which currently enjoys a dominant position in the Chinese online video market as gauged by revenue, but is certainly not without...
View ArticleVenture Capital Funding Lopsided
It certainly comes as no surprise that consumer oriented start ups currently enjoy easier access to funding than has been available for the past few years due to the success and high profile of...
View ArticleEMC – The Cloud’s Switzerland?
The dominant position of EMC (ticker symbol EMC) in the storage industry is well established. Not willing to rest on its laurels, however, the company has been transitioning for quite some time, both...
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