In today's tightly budgeted IT environment, security spending is likely to be squeezed even more than other areas, because expenditures may appear to be unnecessary until a break-in occurs. Of course, no company wants to see its name in lights after a cyber attack. But neither do companies have coun...
Now is the winter of IT's discontent. Last month, the doomsayers at Goldman Sachs projected a 1 percent decline in IT spending in 2003. This week, they released a new report projecting a 10 percent decline. Given this dismal forecast, what should a company that has survived the tech implosion do nex...
In the late 1990s, CIOs began to hear a new story from vendors: It had become undesirable to store valuable corporate data on a disk inside a computer. What if a fire broke out and your data disintegrated along with your servers? The race was on to separate disks from servers via network connections...
On paper, Symantec appears to be one of the hottest tech companies around. Propelled in part by users' need to defend against a rash of destructive and well-publicized computer worms like Code Red, Nimda and SirCam, its stock price has jumped 70 percent in the past year. Nonetheless, leading industr...
Trying to find anyone willing to forecast a vigorous rebound in 2003 technology spending is like searching for a nonexistent needle in a haystack. But it is nearly as hard to find someone who thinks tech spending has anywhere to go but up. "There is no technological innovation that everyone is clamo...
PayPal has agreed to pay a $200,000 fine and to stop taking betting payments from New York residents by the end of the month as part of an agreement reached with state Attorney General Eliot Spitzer. Spitzer said the fine represents "disgorged profits" that PayPal made from processing gaming paym...
Maybe it's only a coincidence, but not long after televisions flashed images of Adelphia Communications executives being taken away in handcuffs, the stock market began its most impressive single-day rally in recent memory. If it's not coincidental, though, the fact that fraud charges against a m...
Consolidations and stock market chaos are causing upheaval among online trading companies, and the ripple effects could continue for some time. For example, analysts said more mergers and exits from the sector could be in the offing. "I would not be surprised if you saw some of the minnows merge ...
Poor Yahoo. First, the company can't produce enough nonadvertising revenue to make analysts and investors happy. And now it appears the company is producing too much nonadvertising revenue. So get out the crying towels for Yahoo, right? Not exactly. The company -- which is part portal, media comp...
EarthLink has announced it will buy low-cost computer vendor PeoplePC for about $10 million, but the giant Internet service provider left open the possibility that the deal could swell to $14.3 million. PeoplePC has made a business out of selling inexpensive PCs bundled with Internet access. The ...
Just weeks after Cisco reported that its third-quarter operating profit more than tripled to $838 million from the year-ago period, the company's shares dropped on reports that analysts from two firms have sounded the alarm over its financial standing. Although sales figures seem to indicate Cisc...
Providing more evidence that the IPO market for Internet offerings is slowly reviving, DVD rental site Netflix sold 5.5 million shares of its common stock at the top of its price range. "The company enjoys explosive revenue growth and is displaying good cost control," Morningstar.com IPO analyst ...
Apologizing for "inappropriate communications" among analysts during the tech stock boom of the 1990s -- but not admitting wrongdoing -- Merrill Lynch has reached a $100 million settlement with New York and other states. The company agreed to implement several changes in how it is organized inter...
America Online has dumped Overture's pay-for-placement search service in favor of Google's similar AdWords offering, depriving Overture of one of its biggest customers and sending the company's shares plummeting nearly 36 percent. Overture said it expects net income in the second quarter will amo...
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