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News about wall street

• 16 Wall Street firms fined $1.8B for using private text apps, lying about it

  The banks and brokerages were fined because employees were messaging and texting with clients without recording the communications, as required. And some of the firms' ...

• Investors worry party is ending as US tech stocks wobble

  Wall Street has ridden the tech sector to record highs in recent months

• Wall Street Beat: Hardware, chip sales shine

  Rising PC sales fuel growth in semiconductors

• Wall Street Beat: IT leads market rally

  Apple becomes the IT vendor with the biggest market cap while NetApp and Lenovo issue strong financials

• Wall Street to install 'circuit breaker' to head off market gyrations

  Stock swings of more than 10% in five minutes would trigger trading pause

• Mac sales to set another record, says analyst

  Apple will post fourth-quarter sales of 3.3M Macs, up 31% over 2008

Features about wall street

• Tech apocalypse: Five doomsday scenarios for IT

  Power grid hacks, massive DNS rerouting, solar flares -- end-times for IT may be more likely than you think

• Economic crisis means double duty for IT pros

  IT professionals with frozen budgets and strapped staff take on dual roles to weather economic storm

• With market meltdown, which tech firms become predator or prey?

  Smart companies will hunt for good merger and acquisition opportunities with stocks at multi-year lows. Here are the ones to watch.

• Wall Street meltdown may drive risk-management investments

  Competition, regulation after crisis likely to increase interest in technology to manage risk

• Financial crisis: The tech innovations at risk

  Analytics, SOA, storage networking, and cloud computing providers face huge fallouts as financial customers wither