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Infosys Technologies' weaker-than-expected results sparked concerns over growth rates of India's showpiece outsourcing sector as the company flagged a sluggish global economic recovery and currency volatility.

Ultimate Software Group Inc has hired an investment bank to review a possible sale of the cloud-computing company, said three sources familiar with the situation.

Export-driven software services companies are set to report robust growth in quarterly earnings and a firm outlook, driven by an expected increase in clients' technology budgets.

UBS Securities upgraded PC giant Hewlett-Packard to buy from neutral, citing improving growth prospects for the majority of HP's segments through 2011.

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) issued a record 219,614 patents in 2010, with IBM grossing the highest number of patents followed by Samsung and Microsoft.

Professor returns to teach at the Kennedy School of Government after spending two years as Assistant to the President for Economic Policy and Director of the White House National Economic Council (NEC).

India’s third biggest software services company Wipro Ltd is building the nation’s fastest supercomputer for space agency Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) to help the agency crunch large volumes of data that is critical for designing complex launch vehicles.

Wall Street appears to be almost universally bullish about U.S. stocks for 2011.

IBM the harbinger officially unveils the top five innovations that will change the world, with a potential Mark Zuckerberg arising from any of its Next Five in Five list.

India’s top three software services companies Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Infosys Technologies Ltd and Wipro Ltd are all set to award their employees promotions and reward them with bigger hikes and perks come 2011 to retain best talent amidst competition from their rivals.

Big players of the U.S. technology sector, who are flush with cash and looking to expand their horizon, returned to the merger and acquisition space this year after recovering from the 2009 recession.

By 2015, you could see the 3-D image of a person calling you and you can plan in advance your shortest and less traffic-congested route to the office.

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IBM will provide cloud computing software that will consolidate and integrate technology capabilities for critical command and control programs at NATO.

Data warehousing company Teradata announced its acquisition of cloud-based integrated marketing software maker Aprimo for $525 million to boost its analytics portfolio to counter Oracle, IBM and Microsoft.

Enterprise data warehousing company Teradata Corp agreed to buy privately held Aprimo for $525 million to expand into cloud software services, as it gears to meet challenges from larger rivals IBM and Oracle.

Stock buybacks among companies in the S&P 500 surged by 128.3 percent in the third quarter from the year-ago period, according to data from Standard & Poor's.

Oracle Corp., one of the world's biggest enterprise software makers, is expected to report better-than-expected numbers, when it reports second quarter results today after the market closes.

IBM's supercomputer Watson is due to star in the upcoming Jeopardy episodes in February pitched against the two most successful Jeopardy players, Brad Rutter and Ken Jennings.

Consumers will be spending more on appliances this holiday season, according to an analytics-based forecast made by technology giant IBM earlier this year.

Barclays Capital upgraded rating of the data storage equipment maker NetApp, Inc. (NTAP) to 'overweight' from 'equal weight' and increased its price target to $67 from $56.

Patent collecting company Intellectual Ventures, which was started by former Microsoft CTO Nathan Myhrvold, has filed patent lawsuits against nine companies.

Chronology: Key events that have punctuated Oracle's handling of Java this year.

Microsoft is upping its ante to corner a share from IBM's mainframe business as it invests an undisclosed amount in French software maker TurboHercules which has hogged limelight for filing an antitrust complaint with EU against IBM.

IBM unveiled a technology that uses pulses of light instead of electrical signals to transfer data between chips, advancing its plans to create a supercomputer capable of one million trillion calculations per second.

A U.S. district court jury has returned a verdict that business software maker SAP AG has stolen software from rival Oracle Corp. and must pay the latter $1.3 billion in damages.

Researchers from NC State and IBM have discovered a way to patch a cloud-based computing system while it's offline.

Cyber Monday sales were up, with mobile shoppers making a significant showing for the first time.

Online retail sales soared 19.4 percent through the afternoon of Cyber Monday from the prior year, according to data from Coremetrics, a division of IBM (NYSE: IBM).