Hewlett-Packard Co., the world's No. 1 personal computer and printer maker, was likely buoyed by a recovering PC market in the latest quarter but worries persist about the health of some of its other businesses.

Hewlett-Packard Co. is scheduled to report its fiscal fourth-quarter earnings on Monday after the market closes. Below is a summary of key developments and analyst commentary related to the period.

Galleon Group founder Raj Rajaratnam and five others charged a month ago in the biggest U.S. hedge fund insider trading case will be in talks with prosecutors for at least another month over the allegations against them, court documents said on Monday.

IBM Corp. said Monday it signed a seven-year agreement worth 55 million euros ($82 million) to provide outsourcing services for Samlink Ltd., a Finnish IT banking services provider.

IBM launched a new cloud computing service on Monday, aiming to take on companies such as Amazon.com Inc, Google Inc, Microsoft Corp and Salesforce.com Inc.

Two former employees for Bernard Madoff programmed an old IBM computer to generate false records that concealed the crooked financier's massive Ponzi scheme and were given hush money when they threatened to stop lying, federal prosecutors said Friday.

An Oppenheimer analyst upgraded shares of Juniper Networks Inc. Friday, saying the company is poised to benefit from a recovery in spending by telecom carriers in 2010.

The European Commission has objected to Oracle Corp's acquisition of computer maker Sun Microsystems Inc., throwing the $7 billion deal into question.

Acer, the world's No.2 PC brand, posted a quarterly profit roughly in line with market estimates, indicating the company could be sacrificing profitability to increase its market share.

There’s a transition occurring in the tech sector. The traditional sector bellwethers—computer hardware, desktop software, consumer electronics—are no longer the areas of growth. Instead, it’s all about the enterprise.

The technology sector will start to rebound in the fourth quarter, said Peter Sondergaard, head of research at Gartner.

Stocks rebounded Thursday after jobless claims beat and Alcoa kicked off the earnings season with exactly what analysts wanted to see: revenue growth.

Stocks rebounded Thursday after jobless claims beat and Alcoa kicked off the earnings season with exactly what analysts wanted to see: revenue growth.

Stocks rebounded Thursday after jobless claims beat and Alcoa kicked off the earnings season with exactly what analysts wanted to see: revenue growth.

Stocks appear set to resume this week's rally, after a Wednesday pause that saw the major averages move barely at all. The fresh round of optimism is being sparked by the unexpected profit from Dow component Alcoa, which kicked off third quarter earnings season on an upbeat note.