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According to Gartner, server market revenues grew 2.8% to ~$13.9 billion, while shipments grew 2.4% to ~2.8 million units in 2Q17.

On May 21, 2015, HP (HPQ) officially announced the sale of its 51% share in H3C Technologies to China-based Tsinghua Holdings subsidiary, Unisplendour.

In fiscal 3Q18, Microsoft’s capital expenditure was $3.5 billion, with most going toward data center expansion.

FireEye (FEYE) employs malware sandboxing technology to identify advanced security threats before they intrude and infect a network.

Amazon’s AWS is a fast-growing business for the company that saw its revenues rise by 55% YoY (year-over-year) to over $3.2 billion in 3Q16.

In 2020, Cisco stock has fallen 7 percent. Is Cisco stock a buy or sell at this price? How is the company's outlook?

Microsoft’s cash and short-term investment balance of $136.9 billion was on the top of the list for the fourth straight quarter.

Cisco is expected to announce its fiscal 3Q15 earnings on May 13. Cisco expects its year-over-year revenue growth to be 3%–5% in the quarter.

Cisco Systems’ (CSCO) Switching business revenue has fallen 4.0% YoY (year-over-year) to $10.5 billion in the first nine months of fiscal 2017.

Ericsson (ERIC) is expected to announce its 2Q17 results on July 18, 2017. Analysts expect Ericsson to post revenue of $5.7 billion with a low estimate of $5.6 billion and a high estimate of $5.8 billion for the quarter.

Social, mobile, analytics, and cloud (or SMAC) is a disruptive technology that’s transforming the current IT environment at a rapid pace. Many technology leaders, who failed to acknowledge its importance or were slow in embracing it, are suffering. HP has been impacted by SMAC.

Cisco Systems still owns more than 2.5 million VMware shares, representing nearly 42.8% of its total portfolio.

Nokia’s French R&D unit, where the company is required to have hired a total of 2,500 employees before the end of 2018, is expected to be spared the layoff.

Although tech stocks have been buoyant in 2015, we don’t think that this means the advent of dotcom bubble 2.0. There are some key differences.

Motorola Solutions has a market capitalization of $14.21 billion, and competitors Harris Corporation and Cisco have market capitalizations of $9.37 billion and $131.29 billion, respectively.

Plexxi’s acquisition has given HPE access to networking, which is considered crucial to enterprise cloud infrastructure.

VMware (VMW) parted with an undisclosed sum to add PlumGrid to its portfolio.

Cisco Sytems, Inc.’s stock is up 13% since 2013, and it has underperformed the S&P 500 Index.

By the end of fiscal 3Q17, HPE had returned $107 million to shareholders in the form of dividends and $625 million through share repurchases.

According to the Korea Fair Trade Commission’s Case Examiner’s Report, Qualcomm’s practice of licensing its patents at the device level violates Korean competition law.

VMware, now owned by Dell, was ranked second after Microsoft (MSFT) in the cloud infrastructure software space.

EMC and Dell announced the expiration of the waiting period under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976 for the companies’ merger.

Cybersecurity (HACK) stock FireEye (FEYE) has taken investors on a volatile ride over the last few years.

Since GPUs are installed into every system or PC before they’re shipped, they indicate the PC market’s health. The Gaming PC segment requires higher-end GPUs.

Cisco (CSCO) stock was under pressure in 2019 due to the US-China trade war. Options traders are betting on CSCO’s rise by the middle of March.

Cisco Systems (CSCO) regularly returns value to its shareholders through dividends and share buybacks. This signals that the company has strong cash flows.

Cisco Systems (CSCO) has been delivering better-than-expected earnings and revenues in every quarter for the last two fiscal years.

Apple (AAPL) is said to hold 93.3% of its cash outside the US.

HPE stock surged yesterday after Bank of America gave the stock a double upgrade. Find out what’s next for Hewlett Packard Enterprise investors.

Last week, Apple’s (AAPL) preliminary prospectus revealed that the company is looking to raise $7 billion in debt to fund shareholder buybacks.

According to research firm Dell’Oro Group, Ericsson (ERIC) is the leader in the global evolved packet core (or EPC) market.

HP stock fell over 6% in after-hours trading yesterday. Investors were disheartened after CEO Dion Weisler decided to leave the company.

HP (HPQ) generated free cash flow of $747 million in the second quarter of fiscal 2019, while cash flow from operations was $861 million.

HP impressed investors with its results for the second quarter of fiscal 2019.

Cisco Systems’ (CSCO) revenue of $12.96 billion exceeded analysts’ expectation by 0.5% in the third quarter of fiscal 2019.

Cisco Systems stock soared 6.7% on May 16 after it posted upbeat results for the third quarter of fiscal 2019.

Cisco (CSCO) is a giant in the hardware networking space. It’s a leader in the switching, routing, applications, and security markets.

Fortinet managed to increase sales by 17.7% in the fourth quarter

Arista Networks’ revenue growth has been impressive in recent years. The company is operating in the mature hardware networking segment.

On March 6, Boeing (BA) announced that it completed the acquisition of ForeFlight. Boeing didn’t disclose the financial terms of the deal.

Since August, Nokia (NOK) has secured at least 750 million euros in financing committed from two European banks.

Mainframes, large computers that can process billions of transactions daily, are mostly used by banks, retailers, and airlines.

While Cisco’s revenue is expected to rise in the single digits in percentage terms in the fiscal years 2019, 2020, and 2021, its EPS are expected to rise at a higher pace.

Ericsson (ERIC) generated ~$730.0 million in managed services revenues in the second quarter.

Nokia’s (NOK) expected market-cap-to-revenue ratio is 1.27x for 2018 and 1.24x for 2019.

Nokia (NOK) stock generated returns of 28% in the first half of 2018.

According to Synergy Research, Cisco Systems (CSCO) has maintained a slender lead over Microsoft (MSFT) in the enterprise collaboration market.

Cisco Systems (CSCO) has identified automation as one of the megatrends for service providers.