Business Issues

Microsoft recently cut 1,400 jobs of its planned 5,000 person layoff-and it's not alone. Other big tech companies like IBM, Sprint Nextel and Google are also laying off people by the thousands. So how is it that Apple is still sailing along? It has the consumer to thank.  read more »

Symantec CEO John Thompson is in the running for U.S. secretary of commerce, according to published reports.  read more »

EMC defied the economic doldrums in the fourth quarter of 2008, posting revenue up 5 percent from a year earlier on the strength of its storage systems and the VMware virtualization business.  read more »