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Hewlett-Packard’s Palm Acquisition Gains FTC Approval
The stockholders have scheduled a special meeting for Friday, June 25, to vote on the proposed merger. Hewlett-Packard moved a step closer to officially owning smartphone-maker Palm June 1, when the Federal Trade Commission gave its approval of the acquisition, granting the early termination of a waiting period imposed by a 1976 antitrust act. “The…
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Small Business Appetite for Loans Improves, But Not Enough
(Reuters) – Small businesses are borrowing more than they were at the depths of the recession, but their appetite for loans remains poor, data released by PayNet Inc on Tuesday showed. The Thomson Reuters/Paynet Small Business Lending Index, which measures the overall volume of financing to U.S. small businesses, jumped 12 percent in April from…
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Service Businesses Adding Jobs, Report Says
After months of a jobless recovery, the job market appears to finally be heating up. Private sector employment increased by 55,000 jobs from April to May on a seasonably adjusted basis, according to the ADP National Employment Report, created by HR and payroll outsourcing firm Automatic Data Processing in partnership with Macroeconomic Advisors. Goods producing…
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Video to Lead Internet Traffic Growth, Cisco Report Projects
Cisco announced the results of the annual Cisco Visual Networking Index (VNI) Forecast, 2009-2014, which projected global Internet traffic will increase more than fourfold to 767 exabytes (an exabyte equals one quintillion bytes) by 2014. This amount is 100 exabytes higher than the projected level in 2013, or an increase the equivalent of 10 times…
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HP Offers Collaboration, Network Solutions at a Price for Small Business
HP is taking the concept behind its Converged Infrastructure strategy of pre-integrated, pre-tested solutions designed for the enterprise and data center to small and midsized businesses at a price point designed for them. The technology giant has announced new communication, collaboration and networking solutions for small business and midsized business, as well as new storage…
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Dell CEO Considered Taking PC Maker Private
(Reuters) – Dell Inc’s (NASDAQ:DELL) chief executive said on Thursday he has considered taking the company he founded private, but said the transformation of the personal computer maker is still incomplete. In response to a question at the Sanford C. Bernstein investor conference, Michael Dell said he considered taking Dell private but declined to comment…
