The world's second biggest PC maker suffers an unexpectedly steep decline in revenue in its latest quarter as the economic downturn hits corporate demand for technology

Head of US unit expects lacklustre Christmas, providing a contrast with Consumer Electronics Association's rosy prediction of 3.5% increase in sales

SIA umbrella body forecasts a 5.6 per cent fall in annual sales for its members in 2009

The search group will urge clients in a London conference not to turn their backs on digital advertising and will explain how they could use the internet to 'speed up in a slowdown'

Buyers of digital gadgets have learnt they can always expect to get more for less

The maker of computer servers has announced a sizeable restructuring plan, but it is hard to see this as more than a first step in the right direction

What Jerry Yang thought was right for Yahoo turned out not to be, and his enthusiasm for the enterprise he built, which he thought could flourish independently, was misguided. Sometimes a company requires a dispassionate leader, writes John Gapper

Negotiations to combine with Time Warner's AOL are likely to be delayed by the shake-up that has led to Jerry Yang's departure from the chief executive role at Yahoo

A slow start and the lack of any radical strategy to turn things round eventually led to the end for Yahoo's chief executive

Hopes that Yahoo's plan to replace Jerry Yang as chief executive would clear the way for a deal with Microsoft lifted the struggling internet company's shares

Spain's telecom operator voiced concerns about the prospect of the Italian group bringing in a new shareholder or the possibility of cutting its dividend

Vodafone chief, Vittorio Colao, signalled that the UK company had no plans to sell its stake in Verizon Wireless, the leading US mobile phone operator

The early deployment of third-generation mobile services could kickstart changes in China's telecom market, which have yet to materialise following a sector-wide restructuring

Bharti Airtel chief executive believes at least half of the 12 mobile operators will sell or go out of business in a few years even as international companies expand into the country

Two of the world's largest mobile operators, China Mobile and India's Bharti Airtel, are eyeing global acquisitions, underlining a shift in momentum in the sector from developed operators to cash-rich companies from emerging markets

Dassault's proposal to buy Alcatel-Lucent's minority stake in Thales, the French aerospace electronics group, looks like a good deal

Paris appears to have been decisive in a deal that represents a strong defence comeback for maker of Rafale combat aircraft and that marks a setback for EADS's ambitions

The mobile phone retailer and broadband provider said it was considering a demerger of its two businesses as it reported losses shrunk at the halfway stage

Vodacom's ambitions to expand across Africa, could spur a period of consolidation in the continent's fragmented markets, challenging the dominance of MTN

After strong lobbying by shareholders, chief executive is set to confirm he will look at the case for splitting the group's retail and telecoms interests when the company presents its interim results