Oracle Obtains Judgment in Gray Market Case
Asa Mathat / AllThingsD.comSoftware giant Oracle today obtained a judgment against ServiceKey, a managed service provider, and its CEO, Angela Vines. The judgment, recorded as the result of a...
View ArticleChip Sales Grew in May at Fastest Rate in Three Years
Sales of personal computers and servers may be slowing down, but sales of chips are growing faster than at any time in the last three years, according to new figures from the Semiconductor Industry...
View ArticleTech Spending Will Reach $3.7 Trillion in 2013, Gartner Predicts
It’s not often in this racket we call the news business that we get to talk about trillions of dollars — unless you spend a lot of time writing about the federal budget and the national debt. But this...
View ArticleCarl Icahn Urges Dell Shareholders to Take Buyout Gripes to Delaware Courts
Even if it is approved by shareholders, the $24.4 billion leveraged buyout of Dell appears to be headed to a Delaware courtroom. Carl Icahn, the activist investor and Dell’s second-largest shareholder...
View ArticleWhy Carl Icahn's Latest Move on Dell Isn't the No-Brainer He Says It Is
Carl Icahn, the billionaire activist investor who has hounded Dell throughout its attempt to go private in a $24.4 billion leveraged buyout, said yesterday that he saw what he calls a “no-brainer”...
View ArticleHow the Battle for Dell May or May Not End Today
You could say that this day is one that has been a year in the making, but that would reduce the situation that the computer company Dell finds itself in to pretty simplistic terms. It was in fact a...
View ArticleIntel Details New Visions for the Data Center
Intel made its case Monday for a fundamental rethinking of computer rooms and the hardware inside them. Not surprisingly, the company thinks it has just the right chips to bring about the changes....
View ArticleCarl Icahn Denied in Bid to Upend Dell Buyout Vote
Carl Icahn, the activist investor, can’t seem to get a break from the Delaware Chancery Court. A judge in that court turned away Icahn’s petition asking it to intervene and stop a buyout vote scheduled...
View ArticleAfter Two Turbulent Augusts, HP Shareholders Hope for an Uneventful One This...
The last two times the computing giant Hewlett-Packard reported quarterly earnings in August, they amounted to two of the most infamous occasions in the company’s corporate history. Last August was the...
View ArticleHP Is Swimming Upstream as Turnaround Efforts Falter
Shares of the computing giant Hewlett-Packard opened lower by more than nine percent this morning after the company reported third-quarter earnings that fell short of consensus expectations, and as CEO...
View ArticleAmazon's Push to the Cloud Adds to Server-Market Woes
To understand the challenges facing makers of server systems, look to health-care staffing firm Schumacher Group. The Lafayette, La., company, has been shifting a growing proportion of its computing...
View ArticleCarl Icahn Ends Effort to Take Control of Dell
The last bit of lingering drama in a 14-month-old effort to take the computer company Dell private in a leveraged buyout just came to a close as activist investor Carl Icahn said he would not pursue...
View ArticleWhy Larry Ellison and Michael Dell Are Now the Best of Friends
Keep a close eye on the brewing relationship between the software giant Oracle and computing concern Dell. While today the companies announced a series of seemingly innocuous plans to more tightly...
View ArticleNSA Internet Spying Sparks Race to Create Offshore Havens for Data Privacy
Google Inc., Facebook Inc. and other American technology companies were put on the defensive when Edward Snowden’s allegations about U.S.-government surveillance of Internet traffic emerged this...
View ArticleIn Server Sales Push, Dell Comes Out Swinging Against HP's Moonshot
Computing giant Hewlett-Packard has placed a lot of hope for its efforts at a turnaround in sales of servers on a new product called Project Moonshot. But it’s turning out that Moonshot, because it’s...
View ArticleCisco Checks on the Cloud and Confirms That It's Getting Bigger
Ever heard of a zettabyte? I’m going to use that word a few times in this story, so it will probably help if I define it first. You know its smaller siblings, the gigabyte, the terabyte, and maybe...
View ArticleIntel's Q3 Results Beat Expectations, Shares Rise Despite Weak Guidance
Intel’s third quarter earnings just crossed the wires, and they’re slightly better than expected: The company earned 58 cents a share on sales of $13.48 billion. The results are slightly ahead of the...
View ArticleIBM Profits Beat Expectations, but Sales Fall Short Again
JuliusKielaitis / Shutterstock.comShares of computing and service giant IBM are falling in after-hours trading as the company’s latest quarterly results beat the expectations of Wall Street analysts on...
View ArticleHP Rises on a Day Full of Unusually Good News
Shares of computing giant Hewlett-Packard are rising on a fair bit of unusually good news for a company that has seemed stuck in an endless turnaround. In late-afternoon trading, HP shares were up by...
View ArticleWestern Digital Adds Something New to Hard Drives: Helium
When you think about it, aside from the fact that, over time, they increase in capacity while getting cheaper, there’s not that much new about hard drives. They store our digital stuff, occasionally...
View ArticleIBM and Nvidia Team Up on Supercomputing and Servers
Here’s a second bit of interesting news on the supercomputing front. Computing giant IBM and chipmaker Nvidia will today announce a significant partnership that will have them teaming up on the design...
View ArticleHP Closes the Book on 2013, but 2014 Doesn't Look Much Better
Hewlett-Packard, the computing and IT giant that is heading into its third year of a multiyear turnaround effort will post quarterly earnings after the markets close on Tuesday. It will be the first...
View ArticleHP's Q4 Earnings Beat Street and Shares Rise
Computing giant Hewlett-Packard just reported its fourth-quarter results, and they’re slightly better than expected, with some bad news mixed in. HP’s profit fell by 13 percent from the same period...
View ArticleHP's Whitman Emphasizes Enterprises, but Says PCs Aren't Dead Yet Either
Hewlett-Packard is holding the European iteration of its Discover event in Barcelona this week and it got under way today. The big news was the announcement of a new cloud management platform based on...
View ArticleAllThingsD Week in Review: WhatsApp vs. Bullshit Metrics and Apple's...
Creative Commons image via toolmantimIn case you missed anything, here’s a quick roundup of some of the news that powered AllThingsD this week: The chest-beating of “bullshit metrics” over the past few...
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