June 4- International Business Machines Corp said on Tuesday that it would acquire database Web hosting company SoftLayer Technologies and create a new division for clients interested in cloud services. The company provides its 25,000 customers, including AT&T Inc and Citrix Systems Inc, with cloud infrastructure.
*P&G slips, Boeing gains after earnings. But support for the Dow and S&P was provided Boeing Co, which jumped 4.2 percent to $91.92 as the top boost for each index after the aerospace giant reported first-quarter earnings.
*P&G slips, Boeing gains after earnings. "It's basically just confirming what we've seen in the economic numbers so far this month, that basically, things weren't quite as good as we thought at the end of the first quarter," said Peter Jankovskis, co-chief investment officer at OakBrook Investments LLC in Lisle, Illinois.
April 8- Cisco Systems, IBM and Citrix have joined forces with other tech companies in a consortium to kickstart the corporate market for software-defined networking, aimed at making network management easier and cheaper.
*About 80 percent of stocks on NYSE, Nasdaq in red. *F5 Networks plunges after weak outlook, weighs on peers. NEW YORK, April 5- The S&P 500 was on track for its worst weekly performance of the year on Friday after weaker-than-expected U.S. jobs data added to worries the U.S. economy could be losing momentum.
*F5 Networks plunges after weak outlook, weighs on peers. NEW YORK, April 5- U.S. stocks fell on Friday, with major indexes down more than 1 percent, in the wake of a payrolls report that was much weaker than expected, the latest in a series of data to indicate economic growth may be losing momentum.
*F5 Networks plunges after weak outlook, weighs on peers. NEW YORK, April 5- U.S. stocks dropped more than 1 percent on Friday in the wake of payrolls data that was much weaker than expected, the latest in a series of reports to indicate economic growth may be losing momentum.
*F5 Networks plunges after weak outlook, weighs on peers. NEW YORK, April 5- U.S. stocks fell on Friday, setting the S&P 500 for its worst weekly performance of the year, in the wake of a payrolls report that was much weaker than expected, the latest in a series of data to indicate economic growth may be losing momentum.
Feb 6- The corner is far from turned in Europe, but for some U.S. companies there is a sense that they have reached- or can at least see- a bottom after years of weakness, a welcome change that could help boost profits in 2013..
Jan 30- Business software maker Citrix Systems Inc reported stronger-than-expected fourth-quarter results, helped by strong growth in the Asia-Pacific region, and forecast current-quarter revenue largely above analyst estimates.
Jan 30- Business software maker Citrix Systems Inc reported a 19 percent rise in quarterly revenue on higher product and license revenue. Citrix's net income rose to $114 million, or 60 cents per share in the quarter ended Dec. 31, from $109 million, or 58 cents per share, a year earlier. Revenue rose to $740 million.
BOSTON, Jan 12- Oracle Corp said it is preparing an update to address a flaw in its widely used Java software after the U.S. Department of Homeland Security urged computer users to disable the program in web browsers because criminal hackers are exploiting a security bug to attack PCs.
Jan 11- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security urged computer users to disable Oracle Corp's Java software, amplifying security experts' prior warnings to hundreds of millions of consumers and businesses that use it to surf the Web. Oracle declined to comment on the warning on Friday.
*Dept of Homeland Security: Java vulnerable to hackers. Jan 11- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security urged computer users to disable Oracle Corp's Java software, amplifying security experts' prior warnings to the hundreds of millions of consumers and businesses that use it to surf the Web.
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