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EMC – The Cloud’s Switzerland?

NEWS By MICHAEL TRAGER15 YEARS AGO

The dominant position of EMC (ticker symbol EMC) in the storage industry is well established. Not willing to rest on its laurels, however, the company has been transitioning for quite some time, both internally and by strategic acquisitions and partnerships, from being …

Venture Capital Funding Lopsided

NEWS By MICHAEL TRAGER15 YEARS AGO

It certainly comes as no surprise that consumer oriented start ups currently enjoy easier access to funding than has been available for the past few years due to the success and high profile of companies such as Facebook, Twitter, and Groupon, for …

Youku Loss Narrows, Issues New Shares

NEWS By MICHAEL TRAGER15 YEARS AGO

Youku.com (ticker symbol YOKU) is a Chinese online video company which currently enjoys a dominant position in the Chinese online video market as gauged by revenue, but is certainly not without competition. The shares started trading publicly via an IPO on the …

Renren IPO Successful Despite Accounting Questions

NEWS By MICHAEL TRAGER15 YEARS AGO

Shares of Chinese social network Renren (ticker symbol RENN) successfully debuted yesterday on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), climbing more than 50% intraday before closing up 20% from their opening despite reports of the last minute resignation of the head of …

Cisco Revamping Operations

NEWS By MICHAEL TRAGER15 YEARS AGO

It’s no secret that Cisco (ticker symbol CSCO) has been struggling and therefore needs to make some changes in their operations and business models. Today’s Wall Street Journal (wsj.com) reports that Cisco is moving to streamline its operating model as it looks …

Intel Aims at ARM Holdings With New Chip Technology

NEWS By MICHAEL TRAGER15 YEARS AGO

An item in today’s Investors Business Daily (investors.com) reports that at a gathering in San Francisco yesterday, Intel Corp. (ticker INTC) showed off what it called the most radical shift in semiconductor technology in more than fifty years, introducing a new 3-D …

IBM, Red Hat Announce Virtualization Collaboration

NEWS By MICHAEL TRAGER15 YEARS AGO

At the Red Hat Summit and JBoss World gathering currently being held in Boston, IBM (ticker IBM) and Red Hat (ticker RHT) announced Tuesday they will collaborate to create products based on KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) technology, aiming to drive open source …

Applied Materials Acquires Varian

NEWS By MICHAEL TRAGER15 YEARS AGO

Today’s Wall Street Journal (wsj.com) reports that Applied Materials (ticker symbol AMAT) has agreed today to acquire Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates (VSEA) for $63 per share, roughly a 55% premium to yesterday’s closing share price of VSEA and assigning a market valuation …

LinkedIn Chooses NYSE

NEWS By MICHAEL TRAGER15 YEARS AGO

It’s no secret by now that LinkedIn has decided to go public. The only potential question was the stock exchange with which it was going to choose to be listed. The answer is that it will be listed on the New York …

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