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COMPUTER software industry , *COMPUTER industry , *COMPUTER software , *MERGERS & acquisitions , *BUYOUTS , *FINANCIAL performance , *BUSINESS forecasting , *CORPORATION reports - Abstract
The article reports developments related to computer software industry in the U.S. Computer Sciences Corp. was reportedly going to be bought by private equity firm Blackstone Group Inc. and Lockheed Martin. Microsoft Corp. Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates has panned the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's 100 dollar lap top for the developing-world effort. Paul Kedrosky, a former Wall Street analyst and current venture capitalist, did a comparison of Google Inc.'s risk factors in its annual report on his infectious Greed blog.
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- 2006