News tagged with economic turmoil
NPD: October video game sales tumble 19 percent
Nov 13, 2009 |
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(AP) -- After a slight reprieve in September, U.S. video game retail sales slumped again in October, unable to escape the economic turmoil that's cutting into consumer spending and swelling the ranks of unemployed.
Away from the financial bust, tech stocks boomed
Oct 14, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Intel Corp. and other technology stocks helped lead the way as markets climbed out of the trough they fell into in March - even as the recession kept many big corporations and consumers sitting on their wallets instead ...
Gartner says tech spending to drop 6 percent
Jul 07, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Research firm Gartner says worldwide spending on technology products and services is on track to decline 6 percent this year.
NetApp to buy Data Domain in $1.5 billion deal
May 21, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Data storage company NetApp Inc. said Wednesday it agreed to buy data backup and disaster recovery systems provider Data Domain Inc. for $25 per share in cash and stock, or about $1.5 billion.
Economic crisis drives the mothers of invention
Apr 04, 2009 |
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Crisis is the mother of invention, if one believes the bright sparks behind the gizmos, contraptions, novelties and potions at the international inventions exhibition in the Swiss city of Geneva.
Maine expanding school laptop program with Apple
Mar 13, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Despite the economic turmoil, Maine is expanding its program to provide laptop computers to students.
