IBM said it would rebalance its workforce. Texas Instruments announced it would cut 1,100 people. These come shortly after Intel said it would fire 5,000. Big tech seems to get ever smaller,…
IBM is once again looking to shed its low-end server business, and Dell is rumored to be interested. A deal to sell the business to China's Lenovo Group fell through last spring…
Buried among pages of financial data, descriptions of risks and details about the Hewlett-Packard's divisions in its recently filed 10-K was the disclosure that the HP will cut 34,000 jobs. That is…
courtesy of OracleOracle Corporation (NYSE: ORCL) is out with its highly anticipated earnings report. 24/7 Wall St. warned readers that this report could greatly impact how the market wants to treat the…
Jon C. Ogg courtesy of OracleOracle Corp. (NYSE: ORCL) is set to report earnings on Wednesday after the close. 24/7 Wall St. wanted to bring an earnings preview on the matter, but we want to…
bfishshadow via Wikimedia CommonsA year ago, the idea that the Nasdaq Composite could reach its record high, set on March 10, 2000, seemed preposterous. That high was 5,132.52, and it had been driven…
ThinkstockInvestors and traders alike have been positioning their portfolios and assets going into year-end, at the same time that stocks keep challenging all-time higher highs almost each week. 24/7 Wall St. reviews…
ThinkstockThe technology sector is feeling the effects of U.S./Chinese tensions over cybersecurity. In a new research report, the Piper Jaffray Technology team highlighted the eight top U.S. technology companies that it believes…
courtesy of Hewlett-PackardForget the future of Hewlett-Packard Co.’s (NYSE: HPQ) big personal computing (PC) and printing businesses as it reports earnings. Those divisions cannot grow over time, and there is nothing HP…
ThinkstockInvestors love dividends, particularly safe and dependable dividends that rise through time. The S&P 500 Index currently has the most companies paying dividends in nearly two decades. The year 2013 has seen…
ThinkstockFor the most part, earnings from the big technology companies came in at or above Wall Street expectations. Some clear trends have started to emerge as mega cap tech stocks that focus…
courtesy of OracleShareholders of Oracle Corp. (NYSE: ORCL) voted against the huge pay package of CEO and founder Larry Ellison. Or more accurately, they voted against the company’s pay practices as exercised…
Douglas A. McIntyre Microsoft Sweden, via Wikimedia CommonsMicrosoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) managed to post such strong earnings and was positive enough in its outlook that there is one thing to consider. No one wants to…
Microsoft Sweden, via Wikimedia CommonsIf Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) had posted a long string of quarters similar to its most recent one, Steve Ballmer might not be on his way out the…
courtesy of Google Inc.Tech is undergoing one of its every-15-year transitions, this time from a client-server basis to information technology as a service (ITaaS). According to the tech analysts at UBS, history…
