Google grew its revenue and profit in its first fiscal quarter, exceeding Wall Street expectations and prompting the Internet company to express a commitment for "heavy investment" in its core and newer businesses.

Google's revenue and profits grew in the fourth quarter, which ended Dec. 31, 2009, and exceeded Wall Street's expectations, capping a year in which the search company did well despite the global economic turmoil.

A technológiai szektor szempontjából optimista hangulatban indult az idei év a tőzsdéken: számos nagy gyártó és forgalmazó részvényárfolyama elérte a gazdasági világválság kirobbanása előtti értékét.

Wall Street-i elemzők szerint az Apple 35 százalékkal több, összesen 37,3 millió iPhone-t fog értékesíteni 2010-ben, mint tavaly. A növekedés záloga az USA-ban a Verizonnal való megállapodás lehet, míg az Egyesült Államokon kívül töretlen az okostelefon erősödése.

Apple plans to buy mobile ad company Quattro Wireless for $275 million, a blog owned by the The Wall Street Journal said Monday, a move that would intensify Apple's growing competition with Google.

A redmondi óriás tárgyalást folytatott a brit Sun és a Times, illetve az amerikai New York Post és a Wall Street Journal tulajdonos News Corp.-pal. A Microsoft pénzt adna a Rupert Murdoch médiamágnás nevéhez fűződő vállalatnak, ha az kitiltatná weboldalairól a Google-t, és tartalmait inkább a Bing kereső számára adná át.

A Wall Street Journal értesülése szerint a Hewlett-Packard, a világ legnagyobb PC gyártója azt fontolgatja, hogy összevonja a nyomtató és a PC üzletágát.

IT and communications bellwethers Sprint, Alcatel-Lucent, Cisco and Symantec this week reported sagging quarterly sales, but analysts, impressed by cost controls and hopeful that a bottom to the tech market has been reached, raised estimates on share price valuations and earnings of some vendors.

Az adatvédelmi biztos szerint sérülhetnek a Google Street View által lefényképezettek személyiségi jogai.

Global technology giant IBM is in talks to buy Sun Microsystems in a deal that would expand its server market share, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday.

A week after Microsoft released financial earnings dragged down by its online services group, the head of its online operations, Kevin Johnson, has taken a new job at Juniper Networks, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Billionaire investor Carl Icahn will proceed with his plan to replace Yahoo's entire board in an effort to force the company to reopen merger negotiations with Microsoft, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday.

Yahoo is in talks with Time Warner on a deal to combine Internet operations with AOL, while News Corp. is in talks with Microsoft to jointly bid for Yahoo, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday.

Time Warner Cable and Comcast are negotiating a deal to invest in a new nationwide WiMAX company that would be jointly operated by Sprint Nextel and Clearwire, according to reports in the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post.

A pénzügyi szektorban hagyományosan erős Sybase tovább növeli elismertségét az oszlopszintű adattárolást lehetővé tevő Sybase IQ-val.

Egyes Wall Street-i elemzők még akkor is fején találják a szöget, ha elsőre őrültségnek tűnik, amit prognosztizálnak. AMD-NVIDIA fúzió? Sci-fi? Horror? Dráma? Vagy ésszerű lépés?

EBay exceeded Wall Street's earnings and revenue expectations for its fourth quarter and, as expected, announced that Meg Whitman will step down as president and CEO at the end of March, ending a 10-year tenure at the helm of the e-commerce giant.

Strong sales of new and old products alike led Microsoft to its fastest first-quarter growth in seven years, with the company reporting growth in all five business segments and both revenue and earnings per share (EPS) that beat analyst expectations.

Hewlett-Packard Co. topped Wall Street's revenue and earnings expectations in the first quarter of its 2007 fiscal year.

Sony Corp. plans to launch an online video download service next year, according to reports in both the Financial Times and The Wall Street Journal newspapers.