Hewlett-Packard’s (HPQ) fourth-quarter earnings reflect its continued effort to expand through acquisition and deliver end-to-end data services.The company is scheduled to release earnings Monday after the market close. A conference call will be held at 5 p.m. Eastern Time.In a pre-announcement Hewlett-Packard said it expects to earn $0.99 a share compared with a profit of $0.84 for the same period a year ago. Excluding one-time charges the company said it would have earned $1.14 a share or $0.01 above the consensus estimate.Earlier this month Hewlett-Packard said it had agreed to buy 3Com (COMS) a networking equipment maker for $2.7 ...

With the S&P 500 Index headed to a mild weekly decline, the information-technology sector has borne the brunt of the damage -- but one analyst sees the sector recapturing its front-running status going into the end of the year.

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) - Technology stocks fell Thursday as a harsh view of the semiconductor market and pessimism about the economic recovery contributed to broad losses across the sector.

Negative reaction to earnings reports from Autodesk Inc. and Salesforce.com Inc., as well as an analyst downgrade of Research In Motion Ltd. highlighted tech-sector action in early trading Wednesday.

There’s an old joke in Silicon Valley about Oracle (ORCL) founder and CEO Larry Ellison:Q: What’s the difference between God and Larry Ellison?A: God doesn’t think he’s Larry Ellison.Larry Ellison is currently the world’s fourth-richest person and the third-richest in America with a net worth of approximately $26 billion.But it wasn’t always this way for software pioneer. Ellison was brought into this world on August 17 1944 in the Bronx New York. His mother Florence Spellman was a 19-year-old single mother. Unable to care for her child Spellman sent Larry to live on the South Side of Chicago with ...