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Apple CEO Tim Cook Faces a $98 Billion Problem

Tim Cook
Apple CEO Tim Cook has a problem, a $98 billion problem. Just 18 months ago, Apple's $46 billion mountain of cash, while huge by most standards, attracted only muted complaints from investors, who did call for a dividend or share buyback, but were mostly happy with the meteoric rise in the stock price.
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Juniper Networks cuts Q4 outlook

Network equipment maker Juniper Networks Inc cut its fourth-quarter outlook, primarily due to weaker-than-expected router demand from service providers, sending its shares down 4 percent in trading after the bell.
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Weakening Euro May Hit U.S. Tech Exporters

Major U.S. technology companies, which derive the majority of their revenue from abroad, with between 25 percent and 33 percent overall from Europe, have warned about potential fallout from the Eurozone crisis since last July.
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Cisco shelves home telepresence amid company revamp

Network equipment maker Cisco Systems has decided to pull the plug on umi, a home video conferencing system it once touted as a quality alternative to popular video chat service Skype -- as it continues with its restructuring plans.
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JP Morgan upgrades Cisco to overweight;shares rise

Investment bank JPMorgan upgraded its recommendation for Cisco Systems to overweight and raised its price target for the network equipment maker on expectations of a rebound in public sector spending and improved margins in 2012.
Two new cloud-based smartphones called 'Vision' made by Huawei Technologies Co Ltd, the world's No. 2 network equipment maker, can be seen during an official launch ceremony in Beijing August 3, 2011.

Huawei CEO's Message Presages Management Transition

Huawei Technologies Co Ltd, a $30 billion Chinese telecoms gear maker, has initiated a system this year to allow top executives to take turns acting as chief executive, its founder and CEO Ren Zhengfei said in a year-end message
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Oracle Sinks Nasdaq; Dow, S&P Hold Firm

Technology shares slumped on Wednesday and pushed the Nasdaq down 1 percent after Oracle reported results that cast doubts on the sector's health, even as broader markets closed mostly flat in a thinly traded day.
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Verizon Denied Request to Delay Payments to ActiveVideo

The New York-based telecommunications company must pay up to $11 million a month in royalties to ActiveVideo for providing video-on-demand service found to violate patents, U.S. District Court Judge Raymond Jackson ruled last month in Norfolk, Va.
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Global Cloud Data Traffic Growing Rapidly: Cisco

Network equipment maker Cisco Systems Inc said global cloud data traffic will grow at a compound annual rate of 66 percent between 2010 and 2015, as consumers and businesses seek untethered access to content and applications.

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