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After Facebook, the Next Wave of Tech IPOs

Silicon Valley’s initial public offering machine is shifting to a new sweet spot: enterprise technology companies.

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Dell’s Earnings Fall 18 Percent

Dell Inc. said its fourth-quarter profit dropped 18 percent, as supply constraints for disk drives and weak demand from public-sector customers offset a shift to more profitable products for the computer maker.

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Email Giants Move to Slash “Phishing”

Email-service providers Google Inc., Yahoo Inc., Microsoft Corp. and AOL Inc. are backing a new effort intended to dramatically reduce “phishing” emails — which attempt to trick recipients into thinking they come from a legitimate source.

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Battle of the Bands: Tech Firms Compete for Rock Stars

Shortly before Oracle Corp. Chief Executive Larry Ellison gave his keynote speech about a new cloud-computing effort at his annual customer conference here in October, a surprise guest came on stage: Sting.

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HP to Limit Severance Payouts for Ousted Executives

Hewlett-Packard Co., still smarting from criticism over the exit packages it awarded to ousted chief executives Mark Hurd and Leo Apotheker, will limit severance payments it makes to senior executives who are pushed out.

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Intuit Plans to Offer Free Phone Tax Advice

Tax-preparation software made by Intuit Inc. is supposed to help taxpayers avoid using accountants.

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HP Offers Customers Path Away From Maligned Chip

Hewlett-Packard on Tuesday offered help to customers who want to shift away from systems that use a microprocessor called Itanium. But HP insists it is not dumping the chip, nor reacting to a nasty dispute with Oracle over the technology.

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Tide Shifts on Web Start-Ups

After taking a back seat in recent years to consumer Internet companies like social websites and mobile-apps makers, technology start-ups that sell to businesses are hot again with Silicon Valley investors, helped by the growing popularity of online software.

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HP’s Customers Backing Off

Hewlett-Packard Co.’s recent strategic moves have shaken the confidence of investors. Now customers of the technology giant are also getting nervous.

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Small Firms, Big Options

A chief executive who boosted his company’s stock price more than 50 percent in two years might be expected to trade up to a larger company as his next career move. Instead, Mark McLaughlin resigned last week from the top job at publicly traded Internet-infrastructure company VeriSign Inc. to join a Silicon Valley start-up.