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Nanotech start-ups suffer from telecoms surplus

Huge stockpiles of components owned by telecoms companies are creating a difficult market for nanotechnology-based start-ups to grow in Read more

27 May, 2002 by Tiffany Kary

HP profits fall, but beat estimates

Hewlett-Packard beats analyst forecasts with its fourth-quarter sales despite the market downturn and merger problems Read more

14 November, 2001 by Margaret Kane

260 face the chop at Nokia

Market downturn to blame... Nokia is slashing up 260 jobs at its mobile... Read more

2 October, 2001 by Aled Herbert

Nokia and Ericsson told the outlook is negative

Market downturn sees Moody's step in to give mobile firms the bad... Read more

14 September, 2001 by Mark Graham

External disk storage continues to rise

...region and Japan experienced the first signs of real growth since the market downturn began," according to a statement from IDC analyst John McArthur. The... Read more

6 September, 2004 by ZDNet UK

Micron pumps up DDR2 memory production

...a boost to those companies' revenue and profits. During the recent PC market downturn, manufacturers had to cut prices steeply to remain competitive, though they... Read more

8 December, 2003 by John G.Spooner

Memory market edges up

...makers, who cut prices to the bone during the economic and PC market downturn, which began in late 2000. The pricing decline lead to a... Read more

15 August, 2003 by John G.Spooner

Microsoft: Online ads 'on a monster roll'

...these deals, however, collapsed when the start-ups collapsed due to the market downturn. As a result, the ripple effect pulled the rug out from... Read more

24 October, 2002 by Jim Hu and Joe Wilcox

A clause for alarm

In the high-stakes game of corporate software negotiations, the silver-tongued salesman is not the biggest challenge: It's the language of his contracts Read more

17 July, 2002 by Dawn Kawamoto and John Borland

Rethinking the case for CRM

...PeopleSoft, SAP and Siebel Systems. Nonetheless, Epiphany is struggling with the same market downturn that's gripped the entire business applications market for the past... Read more

9 May, 2002 by Alorie Gilbert

AMD, Intel, IBM stake out new territory at chip forum

...week with third-quarter earnings announcements. The chipmakers will confront the semiconductor market downturn by offering chips with greater performance or lower power consumption. Some... Read more

16 October, 2001 by John G.Spooner

Windows Media 8 shrinks the streams

...technology. Some streaming video companies, however, have clearly struggled amid the recent market downturn. Broadband media company Pseudo Networks, for example, folded last September after... Read more

29 March, 2001 by Cecily Barnes

Venture capitalists turn off the tap on funding

It's no secret that the stock market downturn has forced venture capitalists to look sceptically on wild-eyed entrepreneurs... Read more

19 February, 2001 by Rachel Konrad

Next-gen phones and gadgets to spur economic growth

...quarter figures from market leading microchip manufacturer Intel, which sparked a general market downturn recently. Apple and Dell have also issued gloomy financial forecasts. One... Read more

9 October, 2000 by Will Knight

The Day Ahead: Cabletron's IPO kids are all right

...initial announcement, but quickly went south. Part of the problem was a market downturn, but a lot of it was Cabletron's silence about its... Read more

29 June, 2000 by Larry Dignan

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