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Yahoo boosted by renewed deal hopes

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12 hrs ago 784 related
        

By Richard Waters and Chris Nuttall in San Francisco Hopes that Yahoo’s plan to replace Jerry Yang as chief executive would clear the way for a deal with Microsoft lifted the struggling internet company’s shares on Tuesday. Mr...

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HP's forecast helps to calm Wall St nerves

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14 hrs ago 105 related
        

Shares in Hewlett-Packard jumped more than 10 per cent as the technology industry's main bellwether pre-announced earnings and issued an outlook for next year that helped to calm recent frayed nerves on Wall Street

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Headhunter starts search for new Yahoo chief

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13 hrs ago
        

By Richard Waters in San Francisco and Kenneth Li in New York When John Thompson, one of the technology industry’s top headhunters, singled out a veteran engineer named Eric Schmidt to run Google, it turned out to be one of the...

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Wall St nerves calmed by HP

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14 hrs ago
        

By Richard Waters in San Francisco Hewlett-Packard shares rose 14.5 per cent on Tuesday as the technology industry’s main bellwether pre-announced earnings and issued a forecast for next year that helped calm recent frayed...

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Headhunter starts search for new Yahoo chief (at FT.com)

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12 hrs ago
        

By Richard Waters in San Francisco and Kenneth Li in New York When John Thompson, one of the technology industry's top headhunters, singled out a veteran engineer named Eric Schmidt to run Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) , it turned out...

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Hewlett-Packard sees earnings above estimates (at FT.com)

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13 hrs ago 1 related
        

Shares in Hewlett-Packard jumped more than 10 per cent on Tuesday as the technology industry's main bellwether pre-announced earnings and issued a forecast for next year that helped to calm recent frayed nerves on Wall Street.

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Bitter pill

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yesterday
        

Tech blog (Richard Waters): It's understandable that companies should want to sugar the pill when they have bad news, but some pills simply can't be sweetened. Take Sun Microsystems' sweeping job cuts (nearly a fifth of the...

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Sun Microsystems to cut up to 18% of workforce

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14-Nov-2008
        

Sun Microsystems, the troubled US computer systems company, took an axe to its workforce as it reacted to the economic downturn and tried to deal more effectively with deep-seated problems in its business

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Google to trial AdWords system to boost YouTube

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12-Nov-2008 166 related
        

Google is to try out a new approach to advertising on YouTube that is closely modelled on its own highly successful AdWords system, as it continues to cast around for a way to make money from its popular video site

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Lack of funding forces rethink

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11-Nov-2008
        

By Richard Waters and Fiona Harvey in London At least one prominent clean technology company has already made sweeping changes to its business model, as the credit crunch starts to force a broader rethink in the capital-hungry...

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