Telecom: One-Upping Cisco

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FORBES.COM TELECOM NEWSLETTER OCTOBER 29, 2009
One-Upping Cisco F5 Networks makes appliances that smartly direct Internet traffic. And it's beating Cisco. Will the Entrepreneur Boom Miss the U.S.? Will entrepreneurship save us? Qwest's Social Quest CTO Pieter Poll discusses social networking technologies in the enterprise. Stocks Slide As Dollar Rises A stronger greenback hit commodities Monday, taking indexes down a percent. Street Hits Speed Bump The bulls resumed control early Monday, but before the morning was through stocks were slammed back into the red. Bulls Back In Command After closing last week with a stumble, stocks rally Monday in New York. The VIX Is In A big week of earnings and GDP forecasts should get stocks boiling. Blue Chips Lead The Charge Earnings strength from McDonald's, AT&T drives Dow, as broader market climbs Thursday. McDonald's, AT&T Beat Estimates This is a transcript of the Market Update: Midday Report. Blue Chips Sparkle As Broader Market Idles Declines outnumber advances, but solid Q3 results from AT&T and McDonald's lift the Dow. Mixed Start As Traders Mull Jobs, Earnings An uptick in weekly jobless claims and results from the likes of McDonald's and AT&T will drive early trading. Juniper To Launch New Chips, Software, Logo With a broad product upgrade and marketing push, the second-place networking firm plans to ramp up competition with Cisco. Wealth Creation Is No Crime It's fashionable to take swipes at the greedy and ignorant boobs who run American business, but don't spread the blame universally. S&P 500 Weekly Wrap-Up The S&P 500 took a small gain, unfazed by high-profile earnings reports. Green Shoots For Web Advertising From Google, positive signs--will the NYT follow with its own strong Web ad results? What happened in media this week and what to watch in the week ahead. LiMo Fights Back As Google expands its influence in the wireless industry, a rival mobile Linux consortium plots its response. Small-Cap Gems William Blair Small Cap Growth has had a stellar year. Its manager picks stocks from our 200 Best Small Companies list. Cisco's Threat From China Since the dot-com bust 3Com has been taking Chinese lessons. Telstra Gets An Ultimatum Australia's telecom chief ignores Telstra's objections to his reform bill. This New Chip Cycle The present chip period is reminiscent of the beginning of that long cycle: Sentiment remains low, yet the numbers are pouring in.	ADVERTISEMENT
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