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HP challenges IBM with $12.6 billion EDS deal
(Reuters)
Reuters - Hewlett-Packard Co has struck
a deal to buy Electronic Data Systems Corp for $12.6
billion, seeking to boost its technology services business to
better compete against market leader IBM .
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Wal-Mart profit up, but shares fall
(Reuters)
Reuters - Wal-Mart Stores Inc , the
world's largest retailer, reported a 7 percent rise in
quarterly profit on Tuesday as discounts drew U.S. shoppers
looking for bargains on necessities like food and pharmacy
items.
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Stock futures lower on banks, Wal-Mart
(Reuters)
Reuters - Stock index futures fell on Tuesday
after Oppenheimer & Co slashed its price targets on a number of
brokerages and on concern about Wal-Mart Stores Inc's
outlook.
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Bernanke says markets healing but still not well
(Reuters)
Reuters - U.S. Federal Reserve
Chairman Ben Bernanke said on Tuesday that emergency Fed
liquidity measures have helped relieve strain in financial
markets, but the recovery process remains incomplete.
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Retail sales show resiliency
(Reuters)
Reuters - Total sales at U.S. retailers
weakened modestly in April, the government reported on Tuesday,
but outside the hard-pressed auto sector they showed more
resiliency than many analysts had anticipated.
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Retail sales dip for second time in 2 months
(AP)
AP - Consumers, battling soaring gasoline prices and a slumping economy, cut back further on their spending in April.
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ClearImage Repair 5.5 |
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| Software News |
Study: US Corporate Software Spending Slowing
(PC World)
PC World - One in four respondents to a new US corporate IT spending survey by ChangeWave Research said their company will spend less on...
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Microsoft Faces Another Interoperability Complaint in Europe
(PC World)
PC World - Microsoft's reluctance to make its Office suite interoperable with competing products has prompted a British government agency...
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Microsoft software gives free tours of space
(Reuters)
Reuters - Any Star Trek fan knows that space
travel is not always easy, but Microsoft Corp wants to make
traveling the "final frontier" as simple as turning on your
computer.
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SOA Software buys LogicLibrary
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Matching up critical components in the SOA space, SOA Software, which provides SOA governance automation, said Monday it has acquired SOA repository and governance vendor LogicLibrary.
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Microsoft readies service packs for dev tools
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Microsoft released Monday beta versions of separate service packs for the Visual Studio 2008 software development platform and the accompanying .Net Framework 3.5, a Microsoft official said in a blog.
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Google's Friend Connect To Spread Social Data
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - InformationWeek - The software is part of an emerging set of technologies like OpenID, OAuth, OpenSocial, and the data access APIs published by Facebook, Google, and MySpace.
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