"wall street" news, interviews, and features

News about wall street

• Wall Street Beat: Hardware, chip sales shine

  Rising PC sales fuel growth in semiconductors

• Wall Street Beat: IT leads market rally

  Apple becomes the IT vendor with the biggest market cap while NetApp and Lenovo issue strong financials

• Wall Street to install 'circuit breaker' to head off market gyrations

  Stock swings of more than 10% in five minutes would trigger trading pause

• Mac sales to set another record, says analyst

  Apple will post fourth-quarter sales of 3.3M Macs, up 31% over 2008

• Wall Street Beat: After yearly high, doubts remain for tech

  Chips and hardware are scrutinized as vendors turn in mixed results

• Programmer steals Wall Street trading code, FBI alleges

  Reuters, LinkedIn connect Sergey Aleynikov to Goldman Sachs

Features about wall street

• Tech apocalypse: Five doomsday scenarios for IT

  Power grid hacks, massive DNS rerouting, solar flares -- end-times for IT may be more likely than you think

• Economic crisis means double duty for IT pros

  IT professionals with frozen budgets and strapped staff take on dual roles to weather economic storm

• With market meltdown, which tech firms become predator or prey?

  Smart companies will hunt for good merger and acquisition opportunities with stocks at multi-year lows. Here are the ones to watch.

• Wall Street meltdown may drive risk-management investments

  Competition, regulation after crisis likely to increase interest in technology to manage risk

• Financial crisis: The tech innovations at risk

  Analytics, SOA, storage networking, and cloud computing providers face huge fallouts as financial customers wither