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Oracle prepares for Sun employee cull

 07 June 2010

Regulatory filing reveals that the anticipated cost of the Sun Microsystems acquisition includes up to $650 million in employee dismissals

Microsoft developing ‘cloud server’ tech in Taiwan

 04 June 2010

Software giant working with Taiwanese laptop makers on server hardware for cloud computing environments

Memory chipmakers fined for price fixing

 21 May 2010

Nine microchip manufacturers fined by EC for ‘coordinating price levels’ after tenth company blew whistle

Corporate PC refresh underway, says Dell

 21 May 2010

Business demand for desktops helped to push hardware maker's sales up 21% in its latest financial quarter, but profits still under pressure

Hardware drives HP revenue up 13% to $30b

 19 May 2010

PCs, laptops and commodity servers in high demand, but IT giant’s software and services revenue still languishing 

CIOs 'should pay electricity bill' - eBay data centre chief

 19 May 2010

Auction giant speaks from experience: putting IT in charge of power drives energy efficiency

Spate of suicides at Chinese supplier to HP and Dell

 14 May 2010

IT vendors' use of Chinese manufacturers under growing scrutiny as working conditions are revealed

Japanese IT giants in Patni takeover talks, report says

 06 May 2010

Fujitsu and NTT Data are in talks to acquire a majority stake in veteran Indian IT and business process outsourcer, according to the Economic Times

HP’s woes continue with $325m Indian tax evasion claim

 05 May 2010

IT giant firmly denies allegations of customs duty evasion, and is cooperating with the Indian autorities’ investigation

Amazon Web Services ‘worth $650m’ in 2010

 30 April 2010

Investment bank estimates the value of Amazon.com’s cloud computing offering, not disclosed in the web giant’s own financial reports

Salesforce.com and VMware put Java in the cloud

 28 April 2010

VMware’s SpringSource Java development framework built into Salesforce.com’s cloud platform to create VMforce

UK cloud computing market 'to double by 2012'

 26 April 2010

Analyst predicts that UK rate of spend on cloud computing to reach more than £1bn within next two years

'Pent-up demand' boosts VMware sales 35%

 21 April 2010

Strong upturn in revenues evidence of growing popularity of cloud computing, says virtualisation vendor

IBM revenues pushed up 5% by exchange rates

 20 April 2010

Mixed messages for the IT sector recovery in IBM's latest financial figures, but UK market seen growing fastest

Microsoft investigates China child labour report

 16 April 2010

Vendor says that independent auditors will examine Chinese factory following report of underage workers in 'prison-like' conditions

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