Tsinghua Unigroup of mainland China announced on Dec. 11 to acquire a 24.9 percent holding in Siliconware Precision Industries Co., Ltd. (SPIL) and a 25 percent stake in ChipMOS Technologies (Bermuda) Ltd. for total cost of NT$68.8 billion ...
Tags: Tsinghua Unigroup, semiconductor, Processing Machinery
The Nasdaq computer index Friday hit its highest point since November 2000, in the wake of the dot-com bust, despite mixed reports this week from the hardware and components sector. The Nasdaq computer index closed Friday at 1989.89, up ...
Tags: PC sales, online commerce
Against a backdrop of market tumult, enterprise software companies this week reported mixed quarterly results. Though Red Hat reported a robust quarter, Oracle revenue flatlined and Tibco's sales and profit declined year over year. ...
Tags: Wall Street, Red Hat, Oracle, Software Vendors
As the time for a shareholder vote draws near, the Dell special committee weighing competing bids for the company said Wednesday that a plan from investor Carl Icahn and Southeastern Asset Management comes up short by billions of dollars. ...
Tags: Dell, Icahn Bid, Wall Street
Despite dismal forecasts for PCs and servers, tech stocks have been doing well on optimism about cloud technology and mobile devices. A fresh batch of dire forecasts for the hardware market came out this week, yet tech stocks have ...
Tags: Tech Stocks, Wall Street, PC
A strong stock market could open the floodgates for more tech IPOs in the wake of Friday's solid debut of Marketo and Tableau, but not all segments of IT may be able to ride the wave. Marketo, which sells cloud-based marketing software, ...
On the back end of an earnings season that by many accounts could have been worse, tech investors appeared to be in the mood to celebrate on Friday, sending shares of IT companies higher as key stock-market indexes hit milestone highs. ...
Tags: Tech Stocks, Market Indexes
Though the tech IPO market has gone from a boil to a simmer, some companies in areas such as big data and cloud-related technology are plunging in. Just this week, business intelligence software provider Tableau Software and cloud-based ...
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Though IT trailed other sectors as market indices rose to milestone highs this quarter, some bright spots in earnings and market research reports this week indicate continuing confidence that things will go better for tech this year than in ...
Tags: IT, software, Computer Products
While U.S. markets have surged lately, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average hitting milestone after milestone in 10 straight days of advances, a relatively modest increase in the value of IT company shares reflects the reality that a ...
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Even though PC giants Hewlett-Packard and Dell reported significant year-over-year sales declines, tech stocks, buoyed by signs of confidence from other IT vendors, started to rise again Friday after slumping for most of the week. Vendors ...
Tags: Hewlett-Packard, Dell, IT industry
Despite PC giants HP and Dell reporting significant year-over-year sales declines, tech stocks, buoyed by signs of confidence from other IT vendors, began to rise again Friday after slumping for most of the week. Vendors in diverse ...
Tags: PC, HP, Dell, tech stocks
Tech stocks are ending the first half of the year on an upbeat note with news that enterprise spending on software lately has been relatively strong. On Friday shares of computer companies led a U.S. market rally in the wake of reports ...
Tags: tech stocks, computer companies, Nasdaq, European debt crisis
IDG News Service - The number and value of technology mergers and acquisitions is flattening out, mainly as a result of economic uncertainty, according to a PricewaterhouseCoopers report. Fifty-nine tech sector M&A deals closed in the ...
Tags: Wall Street, Fifty-nine tech, security systems, single mobile devices
Tech stocks were flat Friday afternoon after earnings announcements from IT vendors this week and a government economic report offered glimpses of good news, but not enough to dispel the pall that hangs over the technology market. Apple, ...
Tags: Tech stocks, IT vendors, technology market, Apple, Facebook, SAP