Stories by Marc Ferranti

Intel expects to reduce workforce by 5 per cent this year

Intel expects that its workforce will decline by 5 per cent as it heads into a year in which revenue is likely to be flat.

Wall Street Beat: VC money pours back into Internet companies

Venture capitalists poured more money into Internet companies last year than they have since the dot-com bust, according to a survey published Friday.

Wall Street Beat: Forecasts call for tech to trend upward this year

After a year in which tech stocks boomed but overall IT spending barely eked out single-digit growth, market forecasters are adopting an air of cautious optimism for 2014.

U.S. government moves to block further litigation in NSA surveillance cases

The U.S. government again claimed state-secrets privileges in a move to block two lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of the National Security Agency's monitoring of Americans' phone communications and email, according to court filings late Friday.

Report on NSA 'secret' payments to RSA fuels encryption controversy

The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) paid US$10 million to vendor RSA in a "secret" deal to incorporate a deliberately flawed encryption algorithm into widely used security software, according to a Reuters report that is reigniting controversy about the government's involvement in setting security standards.

Wall Street Beat: Economic growth, software news and BlackBerry deal boost tech stocks

Tech stocks rose this week on the back of solid economic news and some upbeat results from software vendors, including Red Hat and Oracle.

Wall Street Beat: Tech stocks stay aloft, but signals are mixed for 2014

Technology stocks are up for the year as shares of many vendors are back to pre-recession levels, but recent company results and market research reports have been mixed, calling into question how some vendors will fare next year.

Wall Street Beat: Tech stocks hit 13-year high

The Nasdaq computer index Friday hit its highest point since November 2000, in the wake of the dot-com bust, despite mixed reports this week from the hardware and components sector.

Wall Street Beat: Intel disappoints, Salesforce excites at analyst, partner events

With a lull in major tech earnings news this week, Intel's investor day and Salesforce.com's Dreamforce developer and partner conference gave market watchers plenty to mull over.

Wall Street Beat: Smartphone reports brighten up mixed results for tech

A fresh round of quarterly results and market research this week show some shadows over the networking and component markets while smartphones, as usual, were the stars of the tech arena.

Alcatel-Lucent says focus on fast broadband, IP is key to comeback

With its new-found focus on IP networking and fast broadband access, Alcatel-Lucent is poised to take advantage of a worldwide explosion in mobile devices and the rush of service providers and operators to the cloud, company executives said at the networking vendor's tech symposium this week.