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document.write("Investor's Business Daily - Businesses tend to resist government regulations, but new rules bring new opportunities. Such is the case with the recently passed financial reform bill.
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document.write("Investor's Business Daily - The telecom equipment giant swung to a Q2 profit of 9 cents a share, beating by a penny, as gross margin rose to 37% from 31%. Revenue fell 1.5% to $5.4 bil, but topped projections. Sales of mobile devices fell 6%, and sales of home products, including set-top boxes, fell 13%. Enterprise mobile computing sales rose 10%. It sees Q3 EPS of 10-12 cents, the midpoint above views. Motorola slid 1% to 7.61.
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document.write("Investor's Business Daily - The Justice Dept. filed a civil suit against the enterprise software maker for allegedly overcharging the gov't on contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars. The agency says Oracle (NMS:ORCL) failed to offer the gov't the same discounts that it offered commercial customers. The claims were originally made by former Oracle exec Paul Frascella. Oracle fell 2.4% to 23.70.
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Reuters - Motorola Inc posted stronger-than-expected quarterly results on strength in its enterprise and network units, boosting its shares despite investors' frustration that its phone sales target wasn't raised.
PC World - IBM on Thursday said it had agreed to acquire data compression technology company Storwize for an undisclosed sum.
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document.write("AP - IBM said Thursday it agreed to buy privately held data-compression company Storwize for an undisclosed sum.
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document.write("PC World - Oracle said Thursday that rival hardware vendors Dell and Hewlett-Packard intend to certify and resell its Solaris and Enterprise Linux operating systems as well as Oracle VM on their x86 servers.
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document.write("Mashable - Maria Ogneva is the Director of Social Media at Attensity, a social media engagement and voice-of-customer platform that helps the social enterprise serve and collaborate with the social customer. You can follow her on Twitter at @themaria or @attensity360, or find her musings on her personal blog and her company's blog.
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document.write("PC World - IBM will develop technology to monitor and analyze the state of buildings, roads, water lines and other urban infrastructure in a new laboratory it is opening with Carnegie Mellon University.
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document.write("Reuters - With fist pumps and perfect tans, 'Jersey Shore' returns to TV on Thursday for a new season of shows that has audiences wondering if the cast that put some reality back into reality TV is still really real after its brush with Hollywood stardom.
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