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FedEx Corporation (NYSE: FDX) Chairman and CEO Fred Smith will deliver the company’s first quarter 2015 earnings report September 17. The occasion would mark the first opportunity for FedEx to show whether it could stage a turnaround from last year. The Wall Street Journal...

Shares of Ruckus Wireless (NYSE: RKUS) are up seven percent following the company's announcement to deliver the first cloud-based municipal outdoor public Wi-Fi access and reports that Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) is collaborating with the company. Smart Wi-Fi in Lincoln, Nebraska On Thursday, Ruckus...

In announcing it would hear American Broadcasting Companies v. Aereo beginning Tuesday, the United States Supreme Court could decide the fate of broadcast television and potentially upend a business model that has been in place for a very long time. To put it simply, Aereo, a company that lets...

Google (NASDAQ: GOOG), by dropping cloud computing costs by a third and storage rates by two thirds, made a big statement about the fact it considers profit margins to be too fat. When was the last time a company said that? At its Google Cloud Platform event in San Francisco, Tuesday, the...

Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) is obsessed with speed. So said Google chief financial officer, Patrick Pichette, during the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference as reported by USA Today. Part of that “speed obsession” is currently being manifested in somewhat feverish attempts to develop and...

Is the cloud hurting younger generations? According to Softchoice, a technology solution provider, SaaS (software as a service) users are 10 times more likely to store passwords on unprotected or shared drives. Softchoice surveyed 1,000 full-time employees in the U.S. and Canada about their...

Multiple sources told several news outlets that Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) enterprise and cloud boss, Satya Nadella, would be the company’s next CEO, replacing Steve Ballmer, who plans to retire. In addition, people with knowledge of the process told Bloomberg the Microsoft board was...

This is the second to a two part interview with Vivek Ranadive following Tibco's fourth quarter earnings. Read Ranadive's comments on the company's valuation. Read Benzinga's exclusive interview with Vivek following the third quarter report. In an exclusive interview with Benzinga, Tibco (...

Oracle's (NYSE: ORCL) quarterly financials, to be reported when the market closes Wednesday, may not be the biggest news coming out the Redwood City, California computer tech company this week. With analysts expecting only slight improvement over a year ago of about $0.67 per share on $9.2...

How could one improve on a mobile app that lets customers use their smartphone to pay for merchandise while standing in line at a store? How about one that lets you pre-pay in the cloud, avoiding the line all together? According to TechCrunch, Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) reportedly just acquired...

According to market research firm, IDC, by the end of 2013, worldwide PC sales will have fallen more than 10 percent over a year ago. IDC said it would turn out to be the worst year on record for PC sales. Total sales this year, IDC said, would be about 314 million PCs, with most of those in...

IBM's (NYSE: IBM) supercomputer, Watson, is evolving faster than many imagined. From game show contestant, to medical consultant, and soon, running an information booth on the Internet through what the company calls the Watson cloud service. Gizmodo reported Thursday that IBM announced Watson...

President of Kynikos Associates Jim Chanos offered loads of insight while he served as a guest host on CNBC's Squawk Box Thursday morning, including a look into some of his long and short trading picks.  Starting with the ugly. "We had some data out after the [Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ)]...

This is the second of a three part series. Read the first part here. In an exclusive interview with Benzinga, Tibco (NASDAQ: TIBX) CEO Vivek Ranadive discussed the future of mobile, acquisition versus organic growth, and competing with Oracle. Mobile “We see that everything is going to be...

If you guessed “Fifth,” you would be correct. Here’s how Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) may have weakened the protection against self-incrimination guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment. According to Wired, while the Fifth Amendment protects you from having to give up things you know (such as the password...