Industry reacts to Tech Pacific buy
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Resellers may feel the Ingram Micro acquisition of Tech Pacific in the pocket as their credit lines could be cut in half once the two firms join.
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Tokyo shares gained on a key corporate spending survey that boosted optimism Japanese growth figures would be revised upwards, but most other Asian stock markets were under pressure on Monday after a US tech sector sell off.
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Amid uncertainty about the greater economy, technology companies are looking good to investors.Â Strong earnings from Red Hat this weekÂ and Oracle last week, continued excitement over mergers and acquisitions, and solid forecasts for global component sales have been pushing shares of tech vendors up.
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Will Pacificare's deal with American Medical Security prove to be a lucrative link?
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Technip (Paris:TEC) (NYSE:TKP) (ISIN:FR0000131708) has been awarded a  contract by BHP Billiton for the flowlines(1),  risers(2) and subsea structures installation for  the development of the Shenzi field.
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What a new venture fund says about the future of the industry.
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The technology company's move gives cause for pause until you take a closer look.
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Ingram Micro, a worldwide distributor of computer products, will acquire Tech Pacific for $493 million in cash, including debt. Ingram expects the deal to close by the end of 2004 and expects it to be accretive
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Technology markets rallied Wednesday. They were boosted by soaring Internet stocks on news that Cendant plans to buy Orbitz and by investors looking for general bargains in the recently battered sector.
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A look across the Pacific for stock ideas.
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The company is putting together the pieces acquired from ATI Technologies to tackle an important product category.
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IBM&#39;s (Quote, Chart) decision to sell its personal computing division to China&#39;s leading PC maker Lenovo for $1.75 billion spawned diverse reactions in the industry.
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Texas Pacific and KKR could announce the biggest private equity buyout ever as soon as Monday.
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Itâs competition time for PC makers, and good news for price-sensitive consumers. Thatâs how industry gurus are assessing the scenario, after last weekâs sensational announcement of the deal between Chinese PC maker Lenovo Group and US-based IBM.
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The strong appetite by private equity  firms for technology deals shows buyouts in that sector are  only going to continue -- with the focus on semiconductors and  software.
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(InfoWorld) - Now that the dust has settled after last week's stock-market plunge, industry insiders are looking forward to continued stable growth in the IT sector. When a plunge in Asian markets last week caused panic share-selling around the world,Â IT investors reassessed the technology sector's prospects for the year. IT vendors had enjoyed seven months of rising share prices up until last week. But last week, several leading analysts said that a long-overdue correction was occurring. However, brokerages were upgrading their share-buying advice on bellwether IT companies, even as markets in general were declining. The upgrades continued this week. For example, chip-equipment makers' share prices are rising this week as analysts foresee user hardware spending increases through 2008. Thursday, Applied Materials and KLA-TencorÂ shares rose after analyst upgrades. Morgan Stanley raised its rating on both companies to overweight from equal weight and raised its rating on the whole semiconductor capital-equipment sector to attractive from in-line. Also this week, JMP Securities raised it rating on AMD to market outperform from market perform, forecasting strong sales for new products. In the telecommunications sector, AG Edwards & SonsÂ upgraded AT&TÂ from hold to buy, predicting that demand for wireless communications will spark growth. Last week, even as markets were in turmoil, analysts issued upgrades in several sectors. Robert W. Baird & Co. upgraded AutodeskÂ from perform to outperform; Bear Stearns & Co., looking at BEA Systems' positive cash flow, upgraded the company from underperform to peer perform. JP Morgan upgraded networking equipment maker CienaÂ from neutral to overweight, basing its decision on what it expects to be a faster-than-expected recovery on optical communications market. The bottom line is that demand for IT products worldwide, while not expected to equal the heady days of 2000, is by most indicators expected to grow consistently this year into next. The transition to Vista and spending on Web 2.0 services are expected to help spur user demand, according to analysts. "Barring any geopolitical issues that could arise, solid single-digit growth is expected in technology," said Jim Lanzalotto, vice president of Yoh Services in Philadelphia, a personnel and outsourcing firm. The IT job market is generally seen to be a prognosticator of the IT market. "When companies hire, it's because they see a need to put people in place for increasing demand," Lanzalotto noted. "We're dealing with the leading indicator of the leading indicators," Lanzalotto said. In technology, there is demand this year especially for basic product development specialists, CRM specialists (particularly in the health care fields), IT project management, and Java and .Net specialists, he said. High-end jobs requiring specialized skills are driving the IT job market overall, Lanzalotto said. Lower-end jobs and specialties such as help-desk services are expected to experience weak demand in the U.S. as these jobs get outsourced, Lanzalotto said, though the services sector globally appears to be stable. On the user-demand side, consumer spending in areasÂ like upgrades to Vista will be the main growth driver, Lanzalotto said.
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CVC Asia Pacific has cemented its place as a leader in the venture capital industry, with the sale of Techpac Holdings for almost double its value 18 months ago.