Tech Companies: Build or Sell
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Founders of successful companies like Facebook say it's a complex decision whether to build the biz and harvest the revenue or to sell while it's hot. By the Associated Press.
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Profit from companies that are breaking in two.
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Everybody's seemingly for sale these days, but some companies may be trying to compensate for a lost ability to innovate.
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Some companies are positioning themselves to make big profits in tomorrow's small tech.
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Think through the consequences of your sell decision.
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These companies are buying back their shares. Should you join them?
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In a new blog entry, Richard Thomas shares some of his opinions on a problem he's noticed in the area of IT with companies not realizing one thing - the cost of living differences.   So you got companies like Yahoo, PriceGrabber, IBM and others trying to hire and at some points almost begging for people to apply they are sure to have something to offer right? Move to the silicon valley and if your a good programmer you can make $65-90K a year easy so it makes sense doesn't it?   In his opinion this is one of the major barriers that faces companies - not being able to attract developers with offers that make sense for the area. They flash large numbers at them, hoping that they'll accept only to find that they can't live quite how they expect.
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Two main factors, attitude and income, help determine whether someone will buy the latest technology or hold back.
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Investors are selling stock in the storage king. Why?
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(InfoWorld) - Amid uncertainty about the greater economy, technology companies are looking good to investors.Â Strong earnings from Red Hat this weekÂ and Oracle last week, continued excitement over mergers and acquisitions, and solid forecasts for global component sales have been pushing shares of tech vendors up. Over the last week, the share prices of a variety of bellwether tech companies have hit 52-week highs. Shares of eBay, AT&T, and Verizon closed at their highest levels in a year, while Apple and Google hit all-time highs. IT investors boosted Red Hat shares, which closed Wednesday at $19.89, up by $1 after the company's quarterly results announcement on Tuesday. Solid sales and efforts to contain costs helped lift net income to $19.1 million, up from $12 million from one year earlier. Revenue rose 28 percent for the period to $127.3 million. Growth for middleware vendorÂ JBoss, which Red Hat bought last year, was not as good as hoped for, but revenue figures indicate that the company's core business is doing better than expected, said brokerage JMP Securities in a research note. Products shipped this quarter included the JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 4.2. Shares of Apple, flying high mainly on excitement over its dominance in the music device market and the recent launch of iPhone, hit an all-time high Monday after the brokerage unit of Citigroup raised its price target for the company to $185 from $160. Citigroup Global Markets noted that in addition toÂ Apple's mobile device business, sales of Macs are exceeding prior estimates. Apple shares rose by $4.13 Monday to hit $148.28 and drifted upward during the week. EMC also was the subject of positive remarks from analysts with both Citigroup and brokerage Bear Stearns & Co. raising their ratings on the company. Both brokerages were pleased with EMC's continued ownership inÂ VMware, part of which was spun off in an initial public offering in August. VMware shares started trading at $57, moving upward to $80 this week. The company is gaining on the strength of its dominance in virtualization technology, which allows multiple processes to run more efficiently on servers and is increasingly popular as data centers seek to cut costs. EMC closed Wednesday at $82.36, $25 higher than where it was trading at mid-quarter. M&A activity, which has stoked investor excitement this year as the number of deals hits the highest level the market has seen in years, continued this week with EchoStar Communications announcing Tuesday that it plans to buy Sling Media. Sling offers technology that allows TV-watching over the Internet. EchoStar shares jumped by $2.92 to close at $44.14 Tuesday on the news. Industry watchers also look at forecasts for component sales, to get a sense of how market demand will play out over the next few quarters. iSuppli reduced its forecast of global semiconductor revenue growth in 2007 this week to 3.5 percent, down from its prior estimate of a 6 percent increase. But while the chip forecast slipped, the estimate for shipments of electronic equipment using semiconductors has improved, iSuppli said. The market research company raised its forecast of 2007 electronic equipment revenue growth to 6.8 percent, up from 6 percent before.
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Question: We're in the early stages of startup and beginning to shop for technology. We'll need basic hardware and software, plus many other technology and Web-based services to sell online, service customers and keep it all secure.
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Do you own these stocks? Maybe you should.
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InfoWorld - Amid uncertainty about the greater economy, technology companies are looking good to investors.&#160;Strong earnings from Red Hat this week&#160;and Oracle last week, continued excitement over mergers and acquisitions, and solid forecasts for global component sales have been pushing shares of tech vendors up.
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Initial public offerings of stock are starting to look like an attractive exit strategy for startups, after a lull of three years. In an echo of the dot-com bubble, some companies are even going public before becoming profitable.
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There's a lot of money to be made in open source, both as a shareholder and for the company.
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For about a decade, Frances B. Craig looked for a product to build her company around. She had started an information technology consulting company but missed building software to help companies operate efficiently.
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HP is giving away a lot of value related to open source adoption.  Here's why this is a good strategy.