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Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL), the company that has made one of the greatest comebacks in corporate history, is probably No. 1 on my list when it comes to companies that need to get on the ball and start paying a dividend.

Before I say anything more, let's be clear about one thing: Tech companies can and do pay dividends. Intel (Nasdaq: INTC) currently yields a tasty 3.1% and Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL) at l
IBM(IBM Quote) has unveiled the latest version of its Power processors, which it claims will lay the foundation for companies' green IT efforts and help it tap into new revenue streams. With an increasing heap of IT equipment packed into corporate datacenters, firms have been wrestling with spiraling energy costs, prompting companies like IBM and Microsoft(MSFT Quote) to beat an increasingly eco-
Back in September we wrote Is Google International Growth in Jeopardy? and today our fears came one step closer to being realized with the news that France is now seriously looking at a tax on the advertising revenue collected by companies like Google (GOOG) in France.
Oracle reported quarterly profit above Wall Street expectations as the world's No. 2 business software maker posted an unexpected increase in sales of its computer programs.

The news stoked hopes that technology spending is on the mend after it collapsed a year ago in the recession. Oracle, which reports earnings a month ahead of its peers, is seen as a bellwether for the industry because of i
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Big gains from Oracle, Research In Motion and Take-Two Interactive were powering the Nasdaq higher Friday but the broad market was struggling to rebound from Thursday's selloff.

As the dollar has rallied and financial stocks have struggle
The technology sector is again illustrating why it's the best-performing sector of 2009, as results from software giant Oracle Corp. helped propel the Nasdaq Composite Index to weekly gains even as the broad market lost ground.
Raising hopes that corporate America can begin tallying revenue gains, Oracle /quotes/comstock/15*!orcl/quotes/nls/orcl (ORCL 24.34, +1.46, +6.38%) and BlackBerry make
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Shares of the following companies made notable moves in the stock market Monday:
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Oracle Corp. is expected to see a slight gain in fiscal second-quarter profit when it reports results Thursday, even as sales remain flat compared to the same period last year.
Oracle's sales have been clipped by the recession, and the corresponding reluctance among corporate customers to invest in new software. However, Redwood Shores, Calif.-based Oracle has also