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  Facebook rejected Microsoft's $15B offer

  At a tech conference in Paris on Friday, a Microsoft executive confirmed that the company made a failed bid to buy Facebook three years ago.

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  Intel invests $32M in Israeli SSD startup

  Intel's investment division Tuesday announced it has invested $32 million in Israeli start-up Anobit Technologies, whose MLC-flash based solid state drive (SSD) for enterprise data centers emerged from its development stage earlier this year.

• Meet the CIO who bought 4,500 iPads

  Medtronic Inc., which makes medical devices, may be one of the earliest and biggest corporate buyers of Apple Inc.'s iPad tablet. CIO Michael Hedges has purchased 4,500 iPads for his company, which employs 40,000 people.

• 5 comments from Google's CEO on privacy

  Google CEO Eric Schmidt is getting a lot of attention lately, not so much for the company's ubiquitous search engine or any of the company's other products. It's more for what Schmidt has been saying about privacy.

• Gartner warns of emerging 'super vendors'

  ORLANDO - Gartner Inc. analysts Monday warned that the tech industry is caught in a "vortex of insatiable mergers and acquisitions" that is creating a category of "super vendors" selling highly integrated offerings.

• Budget constraints still weigh on IT execs

  GRAPEVINE, Texas -- A good chunk of attendees of Storage Networking World here this week revealed that trying to handle data management while maintaining a tight IT budget is their biggest management headache.

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  Twitter's new CEO expected to show them the money

  The switch in leadership at Twitter is signaling that the company is ready to turn what has been something of an online adventure into a real money-making business.

• With Apotheker at helm, HP signals new direction

  The initial reactions to Hewlett-Packard's appointment of Leo Apotheker as its new CEO has been double-takes.

• CIOs say they're hiring again

  The technology employment outlook is slowly starting to improve, but the uptick in hiring has been modest and hasn't come close to making up for the IT jobs lost during the economic downturn of the past couple of years.

• Verizon Wireless CEO McAdam move up to parent firm

  Lowell McAdam, 56, has been named president and chief operating officer Verizon Communications effective on 11 October.

• Hurd's Oracle hiring could prove a problem for Teradata

  If Mark Hurd can keep his new post as co-president of Oracle Corp. , analysts say his role at the database vendor is likely to be watched closely by executives at high-end data warehouse appliance vendor Teradata Corp.

• The short list for HP's next CEO could be long

  Analysts are developing a short list of possible candidates to replace former Hewlett-Packard Co. CEO Mark Hurd, who resigned Friday. But it's worth noting that Hurd's name didn't come up often, if at all, as a contender in 2005, when he was tapped f...

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  HP could make mark in mobile technologies with next CEO

  With Mark Hurd's sudden resignation, Hewlett-Packard Co. has a golden opportunity to hire a CEO with business savvy in mobile, wireless and smartphone areas, helping give the mature technology behemoth a needed and vital strategic direction.

• After pay cuts, IT workers may seek payback in new job

  It may be matter of debate whether the IT job market is improving.