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NEW YORK, Feb 9 (Reuters) – Google Inc and Facebook Inc, plus others, have held low level takeover talks with Twitter that give the Internet sensation a value as high as $10 billion, the Wall Street Journal reported. In December, Twitter raised $200 million in financing in a deal that valued it at $3.7 billion. […]

By Ken Thoreson During the past two weeks I have been in Miami, Phoenix and this weekend I have been speaking in San Antonio.  I’ve have met with sales leaders from around the world, led workshops, presented keynotes and developed new long term relationships with our client base. It’s been a great few weeks.  I […]

TOKYO, Feb 9 (Reuters) – Fujitsu Ltd (T:6702) and Oracle Corp (NASDAQ:ORCL) plan to jointly develop next-generation Unix servers and expand their decades-old partnership to include a new distribution agreement, the companies said on Wednesday, as they battle to keep up with market leader IBM (NYSE:IBM). The Nikkei Japanese business daily had earlier said Japan’s […]

NEW YORK, Feb 9 (Reuters) – Network equipment maker Cisco Systems Inc’s (NASDAQ:CSCO) CEO John Chambers spooked investors for the third time in as many quarters, warning of dwindling public spending and weaker margins from tough competition. Cisco shares fell 10 percent after hours on Wednesday. Shares of peers such as Juniper Networks Inc (NYSE:JNPR), […]

Feb 9 (Reuters) – U.S. technology services provider Computer Sciences Corp (NYSE:CSC) lowered its full-year outlook as it grapples with contract delays from the U.S. government and accounting problems at its Nordic business. Shares of the company fell 14.5 percent on the news. The company, which is being investigated by regulators on previously disclosed accounting […]

Feb 9 (Reuters) – Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) has begun to make a new version of its iPad tablet computer with a front-facing camera and faster processor, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter. The new iPad will be thinner and lighter than the first model and sport a more powerful graphics processor, […]

(Reuters) – Cellphone security threats rose sharply last year as a proliferation of Internet-enabled mobile devices like smartphones and tablets provided new opportunities for cybercriminals, security software maker McAfee (NYSE:MFE) said. In its fourth-quarter threat report, released on Tuesday, McAfee said the number of pieces of new cellphone malware it found in 2010 rose 46 […]

There was a net gain of 11,800 IT-related jobs in January—the eighth straight month of positive job growth in IT labor segments in federal employment data—according to employment numbers released Friday by the Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics. Five bellwether IT job segments in BLS data had a net gain of 74,200 jobs […]

Searching for online health information was the third most popular Web activity for Internet users behind e-mail and using a search engine, according to a new study by the nonprofit research firm Pew Internet & American Life Project. Eight in 10 Internet users researched health information online, Pew reported in its Health Topics survey, conducted […]

(Reuters) – The operator of the Nasdaq Stock Market said it found "suspicious files" on its U.S. computer servers and determined that hackers could have affected one of its Internet-based client applications. There was no evidence the hackers accessed or acquired customer information or that any of parent company Nasdaq OMX Group Inc’s trading platforms […]

NEW YORK, Feb 4 (Reuters) – No longer Wall Street’s top over-achiever, network equipment maker Cisco Systems Inc (NASDAQ:CSCO) must persuade wary investors it can fight off rivals such as Hewlett-Packard Co (NYSE:HPQ) and soothe concerns about public sector spending cuts. Although most investors forecast modest year-over-year revenue growth, some said they were approaching Cisco’s […]

Best Buy is selling the Motorola Xoom Android 3.0 tablet computer for $799 on Feb. 24, according to an ad shot scored by Engadget. The report comes two weeks after Android Central reported the minimum price for the Xoom, which Motorola hopes will be the first Android tablet to successfully challenge Apple’s iPad, from Verizon […]