Enterprise Technology News

IBM has opened a business analytics center in London to focus on services for the U.K.'s financial sector, which drives a major portion of the nation's economy. Full Story »

NEW YORK - Shares of Netlist Inc. tumbled in premarket trading Tuesday, a day after high-speed analog chipmaker Inphi Corp. said it sued the server and storage systems maker for patent infringement. Full Story »

San Francisco - With Oracle's proposed acquisition of Sun Microsystems stalled by European Union deliberations, industry dignitaries offered mixed perspectives recently on the ultimate fate of the deal and what it could mean for Sun technologies if the deal falls through. Full Story »

Microsoft has launched a microblog-style service in China based on Windows Live Messenger, expanding the social-networking functions linked to the chat software in a country where it is a hit. Full Story »

Companies running applications on Amazon Web Services can now monitor their environments using IBM's Tivoli Monitoring software. Full Story »

NEW YORK - High-speed analog chipmaker Inphi Corp. said Monday it is suing server and storage systems maker Netlist Inc. for patent infringement. Full Story »

Ron Sege rejoined networking gear maker 3Com last year in time to help it reach an agreement to be acquired by Hewlett-Packard in a deal valued at $2.7 billion. Full Story »

ARMONK, N.Y. - IBM Corp. said Monday that it has acquired Guardium, a provider of database monitoring and protection services. Full Story »

IBM has acquired database security vendor Guardium, it said Monday, confirming earlier reports. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Full Story »

IBM retained its narrow lead over Hewlett-Packard in the worldwide server market as sales began to stabilize during the third quarter, Gartner said Monday. Full Story »

NEW YORK - 3Com Corp. said Monday it has won a contract to upgrade the computer networking infrastructure of the Court of Justice in the state of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Full Story »

TEL AVIV (Reuters) - IBM , the world's biggest technology services company, is expected to announce this week the acquisition of database security start-up Guardium for $225 million, Israeli financial newspaper TheMarker reported. Full Story »

Oracle has received help from lawmakers seeking to speed up the review by the European Commission of its planned acquisition of Sun Microsystems. Fifty-nine U.S. senators have asked the EC to quicken its investigation and have accused the EC of stalling to hurt U.S. businesses. Full Story »

SAP's joint project with user groups to demonstrate the value for money of its Enterprise Support program is still on track, the company said Friday, despite the resignation of the two user group members leading the project. Full Story »

Covestor Investment Management and kaChing are online ventures that seek to challenge traditional mutual funds. Borrowing ideas from social networking, the startups help connect small investors with individuals the companies deem top money managers. The investors can choose a manager to follow, and make trades in a brokerage account based on the managers' market moves. Full Story »

Fifty-nine U.S. senators have asked European antitrust regulators to speed up their investigation into Oracle's planned acquisition of Sun Microsystems, due to Sun's "deteriorating financial condition." Full Story »

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Hot social networking site Facebook said Tuesday it has introduced a dual-class stock structure but has no plans to go public for the moment. Full Story »

WASHINGTON (AFP) - A bipartisan group of US senators urged the European Commission on Tuesday to expedite its investigation into the proposed acquisition of Sun Microsystems by US business software giant Oracle. Full Story »