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Consumers Give Lift to Technology Sales

Don Clark, Geoffrey A. Fowler, Ben Worthen, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in News on August 31, 2009 at 5:00 am PT

Consumers are helping pull the technology sector out of one of its worst-ever slumps, and optimism is building that businesses may also start switching on their spending soon. That upbeat picture emerged as some bellwether technology suppliers issued numbers that were stronger than Wall Street expected, though still reflecting the recession’s harsh effects.

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Current Recession Offers Redemption to Tech Industry

Erica Alini, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on July 29, 2009 at 2:45 am PT

Information and communications technology companies, whose bust dragged down the world economy in 2001-2002, are much less of a problem and much more of the solution in the current recession, a report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development suggests.