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You'd never know it from recent equity action, but fourth-quarter earnings season has so far been remarkably strong. Apart from when the news is bad, earnings reports have gotten the cold shoulder from investors so far this season.

Antitrust and International Trade Commission probes in the U.S. tend to focus on tech companies such as Microsoft (MSFT), Qualcomm (QCOM) and IBM (IBM), and now the Justice Department is making another visit to IBM to investigate whether it has employed monopolistic practices in its mainframe...

It may take a while, but in a few years, it's likely that we'll have devices in our pockets that are so powerful that today's smartphones and computers will pale in comparison. At least that's the promise of the just- announced collaboration between Santa Clara, Calif.-based Intel (INTC) and the...

The following post rounds up the companies making headlines today: General Motors (GM) says, in filing Monday with the Securities and Exchange Commission, it will cut 21,000 U.S. factory jobs by next year and phase out its Pontiac brand as part of a major restructuring effort needed to get more...

Qualcomm (QCOM) has been the premier provider of chips for handsets for years. But its investors have had ongoing concerns about legal fighting with its customers, especially Nokia (NOK), and its rivals, especially Broadcom (BRCM). It made peace with Nokia months ago, but has been in court with...

In January, I posted on netbooks -- paperback book-sized computers that now go for under $300. To me, the netbook looked like a powerful growth trend that was boosting sales at makers by as much as 55 percent, even as the rest of the PC industry shrank 12 percent. A total of 11 million netbooks...