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• Yahoo Axis may be game changer for search and the troubled company

  By Sharon Gaudin | 24 May, 2012 20:08

  With Axis, Yahoo is trying to change the search game, while also trying to change its image as a troubled company.

• iPhone, Android account for 82% of smartphones shipped

  By Matt Hamblen | 24 May, 2012 14:16

  Android and iPhone smartphones together made up 82% of all such devices shipped to retailers in the first quarter of 2012, IDC said Thursday.

• IBM Retirement Plan Promises Jobs Through '13

  By Patrick Thibodeau | 21 May, 2012 23:47

  IBM is offering employees who are nearing retirement, and who might be worried about layoffs, a one-time opportunity to participate in a program that would guarantee their employment through Dec. 31, 2013.

• Analysis: HP's layoff plans and what they mean

  By Patrick Thibodeau | 19 May, 2012 07:28

  You gotta love Silicon Valley. The Facebook IPO is creating dozens and dozens of new millionaires. Apple, thanks to the iPhone and iPad, has seen its employment nearly double in two years.

• HP plans massive layoff, say reports

  By Patrick Thibodeau | 19 May, 2012 03:37

  The last time Hewlett-Packard Co. announced a layoff of 25,000 people, it was on the same day that Lehman Brothers collapsed and the stock market nose-dived. That was in September 2008.

• Final count down to Facebook's IPO begins

  By Sharon Gaudin | 18 May, 2012 23:43

  After all the buildup, Facebook's long-anticipated initial public offering is finally here.

• T-Mobile debuts four data pricing tiers

  By Matt Hamblen | 18 May, 2012 05:44

  T-Mobile USA will debut four new "No Annual Contract" data service plans on Sunday.

• If Facebook's IPO goes south, social, tech markets could take a hit

  By Sharon Gaudin | 18 May, 2012 04:38

  With Facebook's initial public offering creating such a frenzy of interest, there's an important question to be considered: What happens if tomorrow or next week or five months from now, this investment goes south?

• Why Israel is a hotbed for flash storage innovation

  By Lucas Mearian | 17 May, 2012 19:48

  At the same time EMC was in Israel trying to strike a deal to buy XtremeIO, NetApp and Dell were also there vying for the flash storage array maker's intellectual property.

• Android, Samsung top smartphone sales, topping Apple's iPhone

  By Matt Hamblen | 17 May, 2012 03:22

  Android smartphones made up 56% of the global smartphones sold to end users in the first quarter of 2012, giving them a far higher share than the 22.9% held by Apple's runner-up iPhone, Gartner said Wednesday.

• Facebook raises stock offering, shoots for $18.5B with IPO

  By Sharon Gaudin | 17 May, 2012 00:06

  Facebook's initial public offering may be getting even bigger.

• Senate bill slots 55,000 tech green cards

  By Patrick Thibodeau | 16 May, 2012 21:49

  WASHINGTON - There's a new push in the Senate to set aside as many as 55,000 green cards to science, technology, engineering and math graduates -- so-called STEM workers.

• With IPO looming, Facebook boosts stock price range

  By Sharon Gaudin | 16 May, 2012 00:58

  Facebook has raised the price range of its stock shares just days before the company's highly anticipated initial public offering.

• Facebook IPO's elephant in the room -- mobile

  By Sharon Gaudin | 12 May, 2012 02:41

  While Facebook executives talk to the country's top investors about its 900 million users and its powerful global reach, analysts say they need to explain how they're going to fix one glaring problem -- mobile.

• SAP gets tough on violation of software use terms

  By Jaikumar Vijayan | 10 May, 2012 22:27

  A recent crackdown by SAP AG on companies that it considers are indirectly accessing its software without paying for it could spell trouble for some longstanding customers of the software vendor, an analyst firm said this week.