1. Developed SMBs to increase IT services spend

IT services expenditure among small and midsize firms in Australia, Korea and Japan will grow 10 percent from 2009 to 2013, says AMI.


2. Technology sector to rev up IPO recovery

IT firms and emerging markets including China, India and Brazil, will lead recovery of public listing activities, finds new survey on global investors.


3. Getty and Flickr deepen photo-licensing ties

Flickr photographers now can more actively try to sell photos through Getty's 60,000-image collection. Meanwhile, Toyota shows that there's a market.


4. Lack of global climate deal won't crush green tech

No matter what happens at global talks in Copenhagen next month, industry and national governments are likely to drive investment in the near term.


5. Intel-Dell dealings under fire

Pressure on Dell, as outlined in Cuomo's lawsuit, provides fresh insight into the marketing payments that regulators say left PC makers beholden to Intel.


6. S'pore employees want 'ethical' companies

Some 66 percent of Singapore employees consider company's ethical conduct very important factor in deciding where to work, new study reveals.


7. Ancestry.com hopes to stand test of time

Analysts wonder if buying into the latest dot-com IPO makes sense for investors.


8. Report: Oracle not yielding to EU with Sun buy

Oracle is playing hardball with European regulators concerned about its acquisition of Sun Microsystems.


9. Cisco, EMC, and VMware make alliance official

The three companies are forming a joint venture that will provide unified data center products to big corporate customers.


10. Apple to reinvent Apple TV...for the rest of us

Apple is trying to persuade programmers to make their TV shows available as part of a subscription via iTunes.