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HP's profit up 14 pct despite sales drop (AP)

HP profit jumps on cost cuts, new market expansion

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created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Hewlett-Packard Co.'s cost-cutting and push into new markets is helping soften the blow from weakness in the company's mainstay businesses.


Yahoo CEO pledges to boost profit margins (AP)

Yahoo CEO pledges to boost profit margins

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created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Yahoo Inc. Chief Executive Carol Bartz promised Tuesday to turn around the struggling Internet company after this year's "terrible" performance.


Intel raises sales forecast; shares jump 5 percent (AP)

Intel raises sales forecast; shares jump 4 percent

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created Aug 28, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- Intel Corp. raised its third-quarter revenue forecast above Wall Street's expectations Friday, citing strong demand for its chips and giving another signal that business is improving for one of the ...


Dell's numbers show PC industry staggering back (AP)

Dell's numbers show PC industry staggering back

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created Aug 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Dell Inc.'s second-quarter results reinforce what other tech heavyweights have shown recently about the health of the personal-computer industry: it's still wounded by the recession, but is staggering ...


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Google dumps 200 jobs in company's largest layoffs

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created Mar 26, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Google Inc. is jettisoning nearly 200 workers in its largest round of layoffs yet, demonstrating that even highly profitable companies are feeling the recession's pinch.